EcoTrain QOTW: What should we be eating to be healthy and vibrant?
This question I have been battling with for my entire life. When I arrived here, at least for the first 12 or so years of my life I didn't have much of a say in what I would eat. We need to trust that our parents and society know best and make the right decisions for us. But once we reach adulthood, we can exercise more of our own choices and think about our food.
It would have been really helpful if God had left us an instruction manual so that we know what we should eat. But perhaps that is all part of the experience of being here? Discovering the answers for ourselves.
For many people, living nearby to chic restaurants is a very important factor to have a high quality of life. As a child, if it was an Italian restaurant or similar, it would always have to be spaghetti bolognese for me. This was my favourite meal as a child. I liked the sauce and the slurping of the pasta.
Gluten-free Pasta
How healthy is spaghetti bolognese?
The pasta is now made from a Frankenstein wheat variant grain that causes weight gain in us. The mince is made from cows or pigs who live short, horrid lives in the most brutal of conditions only to be savagely killed and then chopped up and turned into mince.
We don't know if there are some processes in-between where chemical additives diluted in water are added to the mince.
When assessing what we should be eating to be healthy and vibrant, some of the factors you could consider are:
- what effect does the food have on you
- what does the food taste like
- does the food involve the suffering of others
- how does the food make you feel
- what does your body say it wants
Considering these factors is important because you can cure many illnesses and thrive by controlling your diet and removing toxins that are in modern food from your diet.
Yet it is not that easy. Despite knowing this, we are still attracted to food that makes us feel ill and can have terrible consequences! If a diabetic would rather lose limbs than eat healthily, what does that mean?
preparing the kid's evening supper
Eating lots of fruits can make you feel really good and give you lots of energy. They smell nice, look nice and are sweet to taste most often. But eating just fruits or too much fruit can also be bad in some cases. Perhaps too much acid in the stomach or diarrhoea.
Removing meat and cruelty from your diet can also be healthy with reduced fats and a long digestion period. Not to mention the bad karma from eating dead animals.
But is it healthy long term? When vegans take lots of different supplements to stay fit and healthy. Is that our supposed diet?
The world's top-performing athletes usually eat vegan so there are many arguments to support that it is a healthy option in comparison to the promoted western diet. Although not all of the vegan frankenfood alternatives are healthy.
Very often the traditional food preparation methods are highly sought after and savoured when people seek food produce. This often comes at a premium that cannot compete with supermarket mass-produced food.
Are we supposed to have this sort of relationship with our food where we walk around a supermarket completely detached from where it came from and how it was produced? Have we now become the farm animals in Animal Farm?
preparing a Mexican style bowl salad
Therefore, the healthiest types of food we should eat to stay healthy and vibrant in my opinion could be those where you still have a relationship to how it was produced and know where it came from.
The food you grow yourself would be on top of my list. There is nothing more satisfying than eating produce you have grown yourself. The next best thing would be to visit a local farm that allows you to pick your own from the plants.
I couldn't say that we should eat or not eat any type of food because I have not been told by God what the answer is and I am not a Guru.
I think another important consideration is to consume different types of food in moderation.
Eating something that is not good for you now and again is ok and will not affect you badly. If we are supposed to be vegan, why are we attracted to the smell of cooked meat?
Is this some kind of joke by the Creator to tease us? Or are we supposed to eat meat?
The world is made of yin and yang and perhaps there is a balance to be found somewhere. The beauty and abundance in the world are balanced by the cruel torture and suffering of animals and people too.
Perhaps the best diet is one that makes you feel best and minimises the suffering of others but in the end, we just don't know.
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Ultimately, it does not matter what you eat. Also have these aberrations behind me, to the cultivation and keeping of my own food for years.
They are luxury problems, similar to those of what is better for me, Apple or Android.
Food are ultimately only calories and minerals and if you look at 100 year old people in the 3rd world, amazed at how agile they are, then you realize with a lot of luck, that the fair traded and Demeter grown potato is not decisive it.
Besides the expiration date determined in the genes, only the quantity that one eats is decisive.
Thats all.
Everything else is just marketing and pseudo-religion.
Very thought-provoking and I can agree with this!
It is surprising how little food we need to survive and how cheap it can be if we give it some thought. you are right in that we are suffering from gluttony and decadence.
Wow... That pasta looks so fresh. Spaghetti is one of the food I eat weekly because I consider it a fast food. 40 minutes max. is always enough to prepare it.
The picture of that Mexican style bowl salad looks tempting. Is it always served like that?
Lemme try and guess some of the stuff in the bowl; Sliced onions, sliced carrot, fresh tomatoes, sweet corn(I love that), cabbage. Seems like the last two are cucumber and black beans, but I'm not sure. Hehe.
Thanks for sharing this on DreemPort.
The Mexican dish is based on a Mexican salad bowl that I was buying for lunch at a restaurant.
I usually have these core ingredients but also add rice, fried onions and peppers in a chilli-con-Carne flavouring and some salsa or guacamole. :)
Sometimes I would also add some steamed broccoli.
You were nearly right, it was lettuce instead of cabbage.
Thanks for your comment.
Have a great weekend.
Nice. Enjoy the weekend too. Hehe.
You have a good taste for food! I love those veggies and bolognese.
Thank you!
Eating right does give us a refreshing feeling. We feel lighter and become active mentally and physically.
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I agree 100%. Thanks for dropping by. :)
Just as a matter of interest...there actually is a lot of information about food in the Bible. I didn't know it either, but some years ago we found an awesome book called "The Maker's Diet". It gives a lot of information straight from the Bible and it's scientifically proven as well. I had a quick peek and I see it's still available on Amazon if you want to have a look.
Now I'm no expert on going vegan or any other diets, and I'm not running anything down. I am a big fan of organic food myself. But I just thought you might find this interesting based on what you said in your post...
I actually quite enjoyed reading your post!
Thanks, I will take a look. :)
You're welcome👍!
I love your concept and perspective on what to eat to stay healthy.
Thank you for sharing this with us, I got this post through Dreemport.
Thanks for dropping by :)
It's my pleasure dear.
Yeah, everyone needs to figure out what is best for them @mypathtofire, everyone has a different perspective on what is good and what is not. I know Vegans that completely go ballistic on meat eaters, but one cannot fault another over what he believes he can eat. Not withstanding the ways that the animals are treated, as that has nothing to do with eating meat. Most people, even meat eaters, do not condone animal cruelty in any form.
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I agree people need to figure out what is best for them and I think the vegan perspective is that animal cruelty and eating meat are linked. Which I can also understand their perspective. Is our world just a cruel place if we should eat meat?!
Your kids are certainly benefiting from your experience with healthy food choices. I love your assessment of our early lives related to what we were being fed by our parents. I know for a fact that my parents didn't have the best food choices available. They made do with what they had being our station in life. However, we ate plenty veggies because we grew them. Meat of any kind was a rarity due to how expensive it was to feed a family of 7 with meat daily.
Your pasta looks delicious. We have a super story available near us called Whole Foods Market. There, I get a nice variety of organic items.
Thanks for sharing.
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I can relate to what you are saying. I grew up with 8 brothers and sisters (we were a football team in total - 11) and there wasn't too many luxury food items available either.
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Wow, 11 is a team! So much love to spread around. I think in my situation it's the reason I crave silence and much, much alone time! And...if I really concentrate, I can feel the warmth, accompanied by the coldness and aroma inching ever so close to my side of the bunk. But I try desperately not to think about those nights.
Thanks for sharing.
I can imagine as I also enjoy having my own space now!
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What you put in your body - matters. Whether good or bad. Our relationship with food, sometimes is more toxic as one with another person.
I have abused my body and I've treated it as a temple, but personally; I absolutely know that when I eat clean, my body thanks me. When I eat crappy, my body revolts.
Love to see the vibrancy of the food in your posts.
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I didn't realise the power of diet until the last few years and managed to control my asthma without medicine. Although some of these modern foods are so addictive and it is a constant battle for me. So I can personally relate to what you say.
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I like your take on the subject. And agree on this too:
Growing and picking them for your own table feels great aside from the fact that you know what you have been putting into them.
I've very little experience in growing myself, but it has been very satisfying and eating them fresh and organic is great. :)
It's fun :) And yes, it's always good to have fresh and organic.
There are many variations of a healthy diet. People need to figure out what is best for them. No matter what your diet, don't overeat. Thanks for sharing.
That seems sensible advice Bob, everything in moderation.
I was reading your blog, and I liked the questions you asked yourself. Buying food in the supermarket is imo not the best choice, but what can you do, when buying the biological option is not affordable. What I noticed here in The Netherlands for the last years, is that healthy food is more expensive than snack food.
The food you're buying is not only dependent on what you WANT, but also what you can afford yourself. And every body is different. My partner and I are vegetarians, we do eat cheese, and eggs. But I also know people who can't eat veggies and have a strict meat diet.
It's never black or white. But one should always listen to their own body.
I noticed that too. I think many supermarkets also label products as bio and organic and they are not really. Therefore it doesn't make much sense to buy them there, as they are just profiteering off you with marketing. If a local farmer cannot with profit make things organically, a supermarket cant either.
I agree with you 100%, listening to your body will usually tell you what it wants/needs. My wife is currently eating around 5 oranges a day for the last couple of months. Perhaps it is a shortage of vitamin C?! :-D
That looks so delicious. Meals that are made well don't need meat, they are tasty and nutritious all on their own.
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Thanks, I do like to see lots of colour in my meals.
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