1) Seasonal Produce, 2) Food Cooked from Scratch,  3) Pure, Unadulterated Foods 4) Fermented & Cultured Foods.
Give your body the best nutrients and eat these five healthy foods your grandparents ate. 1. Seasonal Produce: While in recent years, seasonal food has been much lauded, our grandparents just didn’t have a choice. They ate what was in season because that’s all that was available. 2. Food Cooked from Scratch: Since supermarkets didn’t exist, neither did boxed meals. Unprocessed, from scratch meals meant our grandparents ate healthy homemade foods every day. Restaurants were a rare treat, not a quick, unhealthy convenience. 3. Pure, Unadulterated Foods: Our grandparents didn’t have to read labels or search for non-GMO certification So, if we are to eat like our great-grandparents, as Michael Pollan implores, we are to eat a diet with little animal food, heavy in starchy foods like bread, potatoes, and oatmeal. * In her book, Turner states that the majority of Americans in the early 1900s were working-class. Pollan may find the diets of our great-grandparents preferable, but from my reading I find them wanting. Our ancestors were, by our standards, poor, and access to food was variable. They ate few fruits and vegetables unless they were wealthy enough to grow them or buy them. No part of the animal went to waste. 5. Fermented & Cultured Foods: Our grandparents ate homemade yogurt, cultured butter and home fermented sauerkraut and pickles not just because they liked the flavor, but because it was the way to preserve foods. 2. Food Cooked from Scratch: Since supermarkets didn’t exist, neither did boxed meals. Unprocessed, from scratch meals meant our grandparents ate healthy homemade foods every day. Restaurants were a rare treat, not a quick, unhealthy convenience. 3. Pure, Unadulterated Foods: Our grandparents didn’t have to read labels or search for non-GMO certification At some point, you’ve learned that “you are what you eat.” Consume junk food and your risk for heart disease, diabetes, and cancer skyrockets. Grab an apple instead of a Twinkie, and your body rewards you with a strengthened immune system, as life-giving phytonutrients flood your tissues and organs. You feel empowered by your lifestyle choices. You are what you eat. But this belief was challenged and expanded upon when, in 2008, Duke University’s Randy Jirtle, PhD, published a groundbreaking study proving that you’re not only what you eat, but also what your parents ate. by guest blogger Pam Peeke, MD, MPH, FACP, best-selling author and expert on health, fitness, and nutrition. At some point, you've learned that you are what you eat.. Consume junk food and your risk for heart disease, diabetes, and cancer skyrockets. Grab an apple instead of a Twinkie, and your body rewards you with a strengthened immune system, as life-giving phytonutrients flood your tissues and organs. You feel empowered by your lifestyle choices. You are what you eat. But this belief was challenged and expanded upon when, in 2008, Duke University's Randy Jirtle, PhD, published a groundbreaking study proving that you're not only what you eat, but also what your parents ate. Agouti gene, Avon Longitudinal Study, Dr. Pam Peeke, epigenetic inheritance, epigenetics, Epigenome Project, grandparents diet, Pam Peeke, Pamela Peeke, parent’s diet, The Hunger Fix, trans generational epigenetic inheritance, You Are What Your Grandparents Ate. You feel empowered by your lifestyle choices. You are what you eat. But this belief was challenged and expanded upon when, in 2008, Duke University’s Randy Jirtle, PhD, published a groundbreaking study proving that you’re not only what you eat, but also what your parents ate. Talk to someone that’s older than 75 or so and ask them what they ate as a kid. Chances are you’ll hear some great stories of them and their parents growing their own vegetables and raising their own animals. It’s important to understand how our parents, grandparents and great grandparents ate. They are the thinning thread that connects us to a time when food was real, typically had one ingredient and was all the nutrition they needed. ----------------------------------------------.  Our grandparents also used to make their own butter, cook with lard, drink full cream milk and put away plenty of potatoes. Meanwhile we-who cut carbs, remove fat, cook less, eat more and spend most of our time sitting-are fatter than ever. Our grandparents also didn't spend all day stuck at a desk or hours at night on the couch. They performed manual jobs and rode their horses everywhere at full gallop. Food intolerances were unheard of back then and no-one, least of all John, feared carbs.
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