We eat to sustain life. When we have adequately nourished ourselves, the brain relays a message to tell us to stop eating.

When we are consuming empty calories from those food-like substances like CAFO burgers, we never get that message because we aren’t being nourished. Instead, we eat until we “feel full”.

When the full feeling eventually wears off, we go in search of more food to satisfy our nutritional needs. And so it continues.

In the Standard American Diet (SAD for short) diabetes, cancer, heart disease and obesity are often the end result of a life spent searching for nutrition in all the wrong places.

Nutritionally-dense foods such as beans, salmon, yoghurt, turkey, eggs, sardines, tomatoes and blueberries satisfy us with smaller portions, fewer calories.

The notion that fresh, wholesome foods are more expensive is bunk. Despite what it says on the front of the box, Froot Loops (at 41% sugar by weight) are NEVER a Smart Choice.

Thank you, Kelly :)

Kelly

Bone broth is one of the very best things you can make!

It always seems like such a small infraction and possibly harmless, and yet it never is. Each of us experiences something different; mine physical and theirs mental/emotional, but pretty miserable non the less.

In fact, though our diet is a dream compared to the SAD, we have let some of our values slip a little too much and are preparing to for a full return to the GAPS diet to get ourselves all fixed up. We’ll start putting up a bunch of bone stock now and have it ready for when the new baby arrives, as this seems like a great opportunity to slow down, simplify and return to our ways.