The Perfect Diet
People often ask me how I became a "vegan". My standard response is that I just really started listening body and woke up one day eating mostly plants. Is this the perfect diet for everyone? I don't know, but I know it works great for me and I think it would benefit all people to eat mostly plants if nothing else. That being said, I have conducted a very unofficial, unscientific study into who the healthiest people on earth are/were and what they eat. What I have found is very interesting and in many cases surprising.
Succotash Dish
Many contemporary researchers and scientists today believe that our ancestors who were hunter-gatherers had the healthiest lifestyle. In a nutshell, hunter-gatherers were nomadic foragers of food, eating wholesome natural food (because that was all that was available). What has come to light in recent years is the variety of food eaten by hunter-gatherers. In fact, the diet varied so widely by geography that most researchers cannot answer the question, "What is the perfect diet for human beings to eat to live long, healthy lives?" The correct answer it seems is that it depends. When faced with my own health challenges I sought the "correct" answer from books, CDs, seminars, researchers, doctors, etc for years. In other words, I looked everywhere OUTSIDE myself. After becoming intensely frustrated following others' advice explicitly to no avail, I finally started listening to my body. In very short order, I got my answer. What is your body telling you?
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