As many of you probably know, recently my family has been adopting a new diet-a Plant Based Diet. In the following series
of posts I would like to share the reasons for my family’s decision to change
the way we eat. I will be posting our
journey in multiple, short posts not to bore you…but to keep it concise and
allow you to think over the material for yourself.
Our journey
started after my husband and I watched a documentary titled “Forks Over
Knives.” The film was sponsored in part by Harrisonburg Farmers Market. Here is the trailer:
I highly
recommend this documentary!!! You can watch it through Netflix. Even if you
are certain that you will not be changing your diet…PLEASE consider
watching it. The film made me think
about a lot of things. Honestly, at
first I did not know what to do with all the information. There were two things that bothered me the
most:
1. How come I have heard
so little about this topic? Though being from a medical background-I seldom
heard about diet as the primary contributor to our health conditions. I see
families struggle while watching their loved ones suffer through some of the
diseases mentioned in the film…yet rarely does diet come up in the treatment
plan.
2. After learning about the strong
correlation between diet and health, what am I going to do now? The
options were: do I ignore this or look into it deeper and possibly make a
change.
After
thinking over the matter and talking to my husband the decision was clear-we
could not ignore this! We had a mutual
agreement that it will be in our best interest to educate ourselves about the
food we consume as a family.
to be
continued...
Are you
comfortably unaware about your food?
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