Think, Eat, Be Healthy

The 100th Post

Fresh whole food like this peach is what we really need for health.

Fresh whole food like this peach is what we really need for health.

This is the 100th post on Think, Eat, Be Healthy! It feels like quite a milestone and at the same time just a beginning. It has been an interesting journey for me so far and I hope for you, too.

I started writing this blog because I truly believe that the way to optimum health is through eating a whole food diet. Whole foods are what we evolved to work best on because until just the past few hundred years whole foods are all there was for us to eat. By whole foods, I mean food the way it comes from the plant or animal, with all of the nutrients put into it by Mother Nature, without added man-made chemicals to improve taste or texture or shelf life. In other words, “grandma food”, food that our grandparents and great grandparents would recognize and pronounce.

Being involved with our food is also important for our health, both physical and mental. We somehow need that connection, to know where our food comes from and how it is grown, to cook it ourselves or at least be able to watch it being prepared and cooked, to keep our systems working right. When we start letting corporations feed us, when we have no idea if the “meat” in the chicken nugget came from Georgia or Argentina, when we cannot pronounce half of the ingredients in a slice of bread, that is when health problems start.

Writing this blog has been a great experience so far. It has made me a better chef. I have learned a lot of unexpected things about both food and health. I have read a lot of very interesting books and blog posts and research reports. I have spent a lot of time writing and I hope become a better writer(almost 60,000 words and counting). And every single minute has been worth it.

Think, Eat, Be Healthy is my way of sharing what I know and what I learn about how to get healthy and stay healthy through what we eat and how we live. I also want to stay as interesting, informative and entertaining as possible. To do that I need to know what you think about health, diet and whole food.

So tell me. What posts so far did you like the best and why? What subjects would you like to see covered in more depth? What would you like me to post about that I have not covered at all yet? What have I posted about that you never want to see again?

I have thick skin. You are not going to hurt my feelings or insult me. Tell me what you want and I will do my best to provide it.

Thank you all for making this a success so far.

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Knowing where our food is from and how it is grown is important.