I’m not sure how I did get here, rather how it all started. I’ve always wanted what is best for my family. I think if I had to trace it back to something in particular it would be my first year of marriage. My parent’s never taught me to cook, so needless to say we were eating quite a bit of Hamburger Helper and the like. I noticed after consuming meals as such I would get headaches…sometimes bad headaches that would only go away with a dark quiet room, sleep, and time.
I’ve looked off an on for the last few years for guidelines on what to eat to stay healthy. I’ve tried Atkins, Weight Watchers (as I would like to drop a couple pounds), and also the food pyramid and calorie guidelines. None of it worked. In fact in this time I developed high blood pressure, high enough that in my mid-twenties I was going through rounds of medications trying to find one that would keep it down and also told not to have anymore children due to the dangers to myself and the child. This is when I started getting a bit more determined. Now I have found the Weston A. Price Foundation’s website, read “The Maker’s Diet” by Jordan Rubin as well as “Nourishing Traditions” by Sally Fallon and have discoverd an approach to nutrition and cooking that finally makes sense! I hope to keep reading, to keep searching, as I am not convinced that these resources are the end all off information on the topic.
Meanwhile, our family has switched to raw milk, butter, and cream. We get our beef and eggs from farms that we are familiar with. I am slowly weeding out the processed foods from my fridge and pantry. Slow but sure I plan on switching us towards a more traditional, whole food diet. It has made a difference in the couple of short weeks we’ve been trying. I feel better, I have more energy and am less moody. I’ve noticed my children acting better as well. If our bodies have to work harder to process the already processed stuff (read: processing stuff that was not meant for us to ingest) it would make perfect sense that your don’t feel optimal and therfor don’t behave optimal.
