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Where do you get your food information?

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You’ve heard it over and over all your life - “you gotta eat right”

Well - what’s “right”?

Doctors in general aren’t a great source of “prevention” medicine:
In 2003 the Princeton Review surveyed every US accredited medical school (122) and accredited osteopathic school (19) about nutrition education in their curriculum.
40% of the schools had a nutrition requirement. The average amount of nutritional training at the schools that required any was 2.5 credit units - about 38 hours.

“What’s really tragic about this is that we were so busy learning how to fix broken arms, deliver babies and do all of those “doctor” things in medical school that we considered nutrition to be boring. But after we get into practice, we spend most of the day treating people with diseases that have huge nutritional components that have long been essentially ignored.”
- Dr. Michael A. Klaper, Director of the Institute of Nutritional Education and Research

There’s the USDA “Food Pyramid”. It’s helpful in some ways, but there are a number of flaws which we’ll discuss in future posts.
Then of course there are the fads and what the food conglomerates promote - therein seems to be a breadcrumb trail that led us to our un-healthy present.

Ask your mother - perhaps more like ask your great-great-grandmother. The absence of technology made things easier and did not shield us from what our species is more adapted to.

You ate foods grown and raised locally from nutrient dense soil without pesticides, hormones, steroids.
You ate seasonally. You ate fresh. There wasn’t processing.

Our focus here is to learn what’s important about that. And to bring that kind of eating back into your daily life today in our modern world.

What’s on your plate today?

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