Re: Grzbear, lets come up with a way to start balancing:

You bring up a fantastic point. Healthy fats are a vital part of a healing diet. It all works together.

In this order I changed my diet...

Sugars, salts, and oils were changed at the same time and first, exchanging bad, refined, for good, unrefined in each category... this alone reduced the processed food from my diet well over 80%; read the ingredient labels.

Then I slowly began to modify WHAT, I ate and the amount of cooked foods I ate. I eat one cooked meal a day, 4 or 5 days a week now... everything else is raw and the cooked meal is most often at least 50% raw.

I am still changing and refining... finding more and more wild, organic, wild harvested food sources near home... in the last year, more than 50% of my food came from within a few miles of home... I plan on making that at least 75% within the next year and eventually 100%. I just purchased free range beef (split the beef with my parents) bones, organ meats and all, which will go a long way to pushing the 50% up some...

As an aside; and as expected, the free range beef was very lean. I received days, perhaps more, of positive benefit and feeling from the liver... what medicine. Wow!

When one does eat fresh and local, the very natural progression is to eat only in season foods as well, which can seem very limiting in today's world where we are used to having everything and anything available year round; but is it healthy?

I very rarely purchase foods today that were grown outside the U.S., or even more than a state away for that matter. Maca, quinoa, brown rice, and Kelp are exceptions, along with some herbals, and teas. I have a taste for both Pu Erh and Yerba Matte, along with some Chinese Black, and Japanese Green teas.

My very best to you. Thanks for the post. Tweet