Starting My Study: Nourishing Traditions

THE BOOK THAT STARTED IT ALL

Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Weston A Price; the book that started my journey to wellness. After reading this book about the work of Dr. Weston A. Price my curiosity was triggered. I had to learn more.

As a child I was intrigued with my grandmother’s childhood; about the food her family ate as she was growing up. After I read Dr. Prices book I made the connection to a point in time that her health started to deteriorate.

I came to the realization that it was when her and grandpa were slowly leaving the farm and changing their diet to more store bought foods instead of their own hand raised food. When they moved to town they still had a big garden, raised and preserved a bunch of their own food, but the addition of many highly processed foods also occurred. So that pattern is what I learned as I spent most of my days with my grandparents.

As a young wife then mother I continued to follow what I had been taught. Health issues in myself and my family started to appear in addition to my weight gain.

The book that has guided our journey to health.

So when I read this book I was hooked. It all made so much sense to me. The book was a good place to start, but I needed more information. I found a book by Sally Fallon called Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats.

Now, let me tell you that this is no ordinary cookbook. The margins have a wealth of information on the whys and how to of food preparation from the perspective of our ancestors. Methods that they used to get optimum nutrition from their food. I highly recommend this book.

I had a slow start, simply because I didn’t always remember to do the initial prep work ahead of time. As time went on though I became more consistent soaking my grains, beans and seeds and making lacto-fermented foods for our table.

We had previously made the decision to stop purchasing meat from the grocery store. Whenever my husband would eat certain meats he would be violently ill. So we started raising more variety of animals that would be well cared for during their life time, then provide us with the exceptional nutrition our bodies needed to heal from years of eating highly processed foods. Our health continued to slowly improve.

One of our pasture-raised pork roasts cooked to perfection. My absolute favourite! Loaded with amazing flavor and good fats.

At this time my husband was still having major health issues so we had extensive allergy testing done. We discovered that he was highly allergic to over forty common foods; many of what were supposed to be really good for us like whole grains and eggs plus many veggies that we relied upon very heavily in our diet.

So with that information we eliminated all those foods and saw more improvements to his health. By I still was stuck in a rut on my journey. We didn’t eat a lot of grains because of his allergies, but still consumed many high carb foods as a mainstay of our diet. Instead of cooking different dishes for him we basically ate what he could eat.

Overtime I came across another book (quite by accident) that helped me to understand the next step that I would have to take on my own health journey.

I am so thankful that I have learned the principles that Wise Traditions has laid out. We have seen so much benefit in our lives by following them. But I have learned that they have to be applied to what our individual bodies need.

Next week I will delve deeper into what my continuing research led me to and how it has helped me get to the place I am today in my journey to health.

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4 Fabulous Pastured Pork Recipes as our free gift to you.