Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Aliza" <realfood@wonderfulfarm.com>]

Do you always start disrespectful sentences saying "with all due respect"? 
Telling someone that what they wrote is nonsense is not respectful at all.

My 6 year old makes excellent food choices all the time.  This morning he 
asked for squash and green beans for breakfast and will have some raw yogurt 
smoothy with it.  When he has access to sweets or other stuff he usually 
takes a bite or two and then stops because he says that it makes him feel 
yucky. He discovered this on his own when he had a frosted cookie one day 
from a local bakery.  He was about 3 1/2 years old and got a headache 
suddenly and related it to the frosting on the cookie.  When his body is a 
little off he avoids junk on his own because he prefers to feel healthy in 
his body.   My body tells me what to eat every day.   I just make sure that 
I have access to the stuff that my body likes.  In the summer my body 
prefers lots of raw goats milk - sometimes upwards of a half gallon a day - 
and lots of veggies from the garden raw.  Also raw beef or charred rare.  In 
the winter my desire for milk seems to wane somewhat.  My body tells me that 
it doesnt particularly like wheat especially with sugars and rarely askes 
for fruit.  I notice that at different times in my life I want different 
foods.  When pregnant I eat as many as 5 oranges a day.

While your parameters are accurate, given availability if we listen to our 
bodies it will tell us what to eat within our chosen parameters.  There are 
many ways to eat and maintain excellent health.  I do disagree with the 
contention that the body says "food now"  with no other information.  It is 
telling you what foods would be excellent at that moment if you care to 
listen.  Relearning how to listen to your body is very possible.  It is one 
the the basics that we have forgotten to pass on to our children.  I think 
it is a myth that our bodies dont know.

Aliza

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <yarrow@sfo.com>
To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" 
<livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 10:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] An Omnivore Defends Real Food


> With all due respect...that's nonsense.
>
> The body says "food now!" and goes for whatever's most convenient.
> The mind says "whoa!" and guides food choices based on availability,
> familiarity, learned preferences, ethics, and probably a few other
> parameters.
>
>
>
> At 9:21 PM -0800 1/18/08, Aliza wrote:
> > The piece of the puzzle that seems missing to me is the inate knowledge 
> > that
> > our bodies know what we should be eating.  given healthy whole foods and
> > lots of options our bodies will tell us what to eat day by day.  And in 
> > that
> > we will see much diversity in choices.  Some folks tend towards a more 
> > high
> > protein high fat type of diet, some folks prefer lots of veggies and less
> > protein and most folks are somewhere in between.  Our bodies can guide us 
> > if
> > we know how to listen.
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