Forget the "food pyramid" and "the four food groups". It is all misguided understandings or outright lies. It will kill you.
This is the basic truth about nutrition:
1. Saturated fats are good, necessary, and should be our primary fuel source. Mostly animal fat. This is not only the best fuel for our bodies, able to be utilized as a nice slow burn, slow release of energy that lasts for consistent energy levels. But also the cholesterol inside is vital to our health, required by healing and brain support. Low cholesterol, low fat diets are hugely damaging to the body.
2. Probiotics are necessary on a steady, daily basis. Bacteria and such are responsible for our health, our moods, our future. Sterile is not a state of nature, it is death. Bacteria are all about balance. The traditional diet of health involves preserving foods thorough fermentation, not refrigeration. Fermentation provides billions of different bacteria and yeasts to support health. We vitally need these probiotics daily to maintain a healthy balance and avoid disease.
3. Low carbs. Carbs or flash energy, like throwing gasoline on a fire. It is so dangerous in the body that God gave us a builtin control mechanism.... Insulin. Without insulin, carbs would kill us quickly. It is the constant consumption of carbs that are at the root of most
health issues. Modern thought has replaced fat with carbs as an energy source, and that is the start of death and suffering. Carbs are to be consumed in moderation, infrequently.
4. Minerals are necessary but nonexistent. Our modern soils have little to no minerals. Plants therefor contain none. Without minerals our bodies don't work right. There is a list of these that must be supplemented or disease occurs. The easiest ways to supplement minerals is through bone broth, sea algea, and true unrefined sea salt. Some, like iodine, are necessary at much higher concentrations than even these sources allow.
5. The source of any of this is critical. For meats and fats and broths, it must come from heritage breed, pasture raised, organically and nongmo fed animals. Any other source is so full of toxins that it becomes a negative instead of a positive. Know your farmer, buy local. With vegetables, the same applies. Organic, from a knowledgeable local farmer. Source is everything.
6. Cook from scratch. Foods must be properly prepared. Anything that comes in a box, can, or jar is suspect. Preprocessor, prepackaged foods are death. Cook from scratch, with good sourced ingredients.
7. Eat what is in season. Don't try to change God's plan for nutrition by refrigeration and overseas shipping. Eat what is local in season, and ferment to eat when none is in season. Meat serves as a good winter source, vegetables the summer source. Follow nature, don't fight it.
These rules will start you down the path to health. There is much to learn from the past. Seek it out.
