i think that we think of eating well in a few forms.
we hear about all of these diets/fads that promise we'll lose 15 pounds in 15 days.
then we hear about plans that are not diets, they are ways of living. those plans typically acknowledge that our life has to change when we eat well and that results take time...how much time...we don't know. we're all different.
and then, there's another part of eating well within those eating well plans. we can choose to eat good and rich foods in moderation. i've mentioned that before. or we can eat substitutes that try and mimic those good and rich foods.
del marie's blog gives a good perspective on eating well.
to me eating well is eating food closest to its natural form. the farther away we get from food in its natural form the more good 'n' bad extras we'll have in our food. eating well is also eating with respect to our bodies, others and the earth. we have to fuel our bodies with good food. this afternoon i was at subway and no joke, one of the employees asked...um, does this tea have calories in it? (ask me to say that outloud for you, it's pretty funny). i said, unsweetened tea doesn't have any calories, the green tea over there, yes, yes it does. but green tea is good for you. we've demonized so many types of foods because of calories, fat grams and carbs that we don't even know what good food is anymore. there's a bit of theory behind how we make our food decisions. if i could find that paper, i'd post it. it's a grad paper for a theories class. i did well on it :) anyway, the idea is that our food decisions are a cycle based on what is popular in diet fads...so, remember a few years ago? low-carb/south beach diet was all the rage...then all of the restaurants changed their menus to match it....we all bought into it and ate low carb/south beach...we fed the diet fad by eating the diet fad food. we kept it going. weird huh? so, if we look around at the ads we're seeing, what are we being told? what are we listening to? what are we believing?
anyway. this is a long blog. i hope we can find ways to figure out how to eat well as a community. i believe that it's a sign of hope for the future.
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I love this post. I have very serious opinions on the topic of eating well. Simply put, I believe that eating well truly involves nourishing your body and soul. I believe that truly enjoying the food you eat nourishes your body and soul in a very real, physical, tangible way. I also believe that sometimes eating something that's "not good for you" (a piece of calorie-laden, made from scratch and with love cake) can nourish you in just as real a way. Along those lines, I believe that not only should the food be as close to nature as possible, but we should have some real connection to it's source ,and how it was prepared. I know it sounds hokey, but I have this theory of soul-sickness that comes from eating food that we have no connection with...food made in factories by who knows who, a glass of milk made from hundreds of nameless cows hooked up to machinery.
I think love, in preparing food, is an actual ingredient.
Wow, I didn't know I was going to write a novel here. It's like the Apostle's Creed of nourishment. Sorry!!!! Love you!!!!
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