You know? This truly has more meaning to me as life goes on. I remember when I first heard it, I thought, “Oh yeah, like if you eat meat, you’re carnivorous; and if you eat veggies, you’re a vegetarian…” But this means so much more now.
I’ve been battling a nasty head cold and I’m doing it without any bought medications (with the exception of beverage vitamin C). This is quite a new trial for me. So, I looked into my copy of Healing with Whole Foods by Paul Pitchford and sought out some tips for dealing with the cold. So, we proactively got me some sleep and increased my vitamin C and had simple soups with basic greens. Rouge made an excellent simple soup with leek, shallots, celery, a little lemon, salmon, milk, and of course broth. It was perfect, light and green; which was an emphasis from the book. Fruits were encouraged; so in between my wakings I’d have rooibos or green teas and maybe a piece of fruit or orange juice and eventually a small bowl of soup.
I even tried a sweating technique to help erradicate the toxins from my body. I do believe it helped. I drank some hot chamomile tea, had some more in a hot bath and sweat and then tried to sweat some more in bed. That part didn’t go as well… it’s kinda cool here, but I certainly stayed warm!
So, it’s developing for me; “you are what you eat.” It’s becoming much more than just the simple phrase it once was. We really are what we eat. I’m so glad that Rouge and I are taking our extra efforts to have ecologically friendly foods whenever we can from eggs and milk to flour or museli. I do believe, more than ever before, that it really will and does have an impact in our bodies to have things ecological and organic. Thanks also to green for planting those seeds so long ago!
