You ARE what you eat!
Our bodies are constantly rebuilding themselves. In a single day, we shed about a million skin cells. Every 30-45 days we get a new epidermis (skin) and it takes about seven years for all the cells of our body to be replaced. And during all of this dying and regenerating, what does the body use to construct all these new cells, and to fuel all that work in addition to the gazillion other metabolic processes our bodies perform every day? Our food, water and air. So, yes, whether you are eating donuts and pork rinds or kale and avocado, that is what your body can use to rebuild itself.
So do you want to be a pork rind or an avocado? Both are fatty, and the body needs fat - but what kind of fat does the body need? Does it need the skin of another animal, deep-fried in carcinogenic oil and doused with unnatural table salt, or can it do more with a raw, natural fruit that contains tons of nutrients and phytochemicals in addition to the fat? Avocado wins every time, and I won't even stoop to compare the nutritional powerhouse that is KALE to a donut.
Whatever your diet is now, almost everyone could use more veggies, more fruit, and a better quality of fat. Protein seems to be the one thing that the Western world gets in abundance - we tend to need much less than we get, and we tend to forget that everything has at least some protein - even strawberries have protein. No matter your philosophical, ethical, scientific or religious beliefs, we are all united by some basic needs: we need what plants have. They are full of such an amazing array of life-giving, skin-toning, hair-growing, heart and brain-fueling stuff that we can't thrive without them. So stay tuned to the blog for recipes, articles and stories that will (hopefully) make you want to eat more plants, and show you how to do it.
So do you want to be a pork rind or an avocado? Both are fatty, and the body needs fat - but what kind of fat does the body need? Does it need the skin of another animal, deep-fried in carcinogenic oil and doused with unnatural table salt, or can it do more with a raw, natural fruit that contains tons of nutrients and phytochemicals in addition to the fat? Avocado wins every time, and I won't even stoop to compare the nutritional powerhouse that is KALE to a donut.
Whatever your diet is now, almost everyone could use more veggies, more fruit, and a better quality of fat. Protein seems to be the one thing that the Western world gets in abundance - we tend to need much less than we get, and we tend to forget that everything has at least some protein - even strawberries have protein. No matter your philosophical, ethical, scientific or religious beliefs, we are all united by some basic needs: we need what plants have. They are full of such an amazing array of life-giving, skin-toning, hair-growing, heart and brain-fueling stuff that we can't thrive without them. So stay tuned to the blog for recipes, articles and stories that will (hopefully) make you want to eat more plants, and show you how to do it.
