10/03/2024
🍁🍁 It’s Fall!! I live in Florida, so it’s never really Fall, but that doesn’t stop me from getting plenty of Fall colors in my meals.
Which reminds me— have you heard of ancestral eating?
Ancestral Diets are those that strip back to the way our ancestors ate. Fresh foods. Remember, back in the day, our ancestors didn’t have meat everyday. If the hunt was unsuccessful (or if hunting animals wasn’t a “thing” yet), they survived on fresh fruits, berries and other whole plant foods— whatever was in season. Sometimes they fasted.
They didn’t mass breed and over feed chickens,cattle or other animals in confined areas. They likely didn’t have the chronic diseases of modern day. One way we lucked out and began to extend our lives was through the use of antibiotics. And now we have over-used them to the point of ill-affecting our gut bacteria or “microbiome”. There’s hope though!!—Fruits, veggies, beans, legumes, whole grains, nuts, seeds and berries. They act as pre and probiotics on our gut bacteria.
While I tout a whole food plant based way of eating, I realize not everyone is going to become vegan overnight. So I urge you to think about ancestral eating.
Spend some time learning about choosing healthy foods in season, avoiding the unhealthy packaged foods, learning about intermittent fasting, etc. try incorporating some of these changes into your daily regimen.
As always, if you need help setting your goals, a platform to keep you on track, and someone to hold you accountable, I’m always here to help!
