Ancestral Eating

The industrialized diet, the "white man's" food. Politically correct nutrition. It does not sustain us. It does not nourish us.

Almost every aspect of modern foods lowers nutrient availability. Confinement agriculture system, the way food is processed, made more convenient, the pollutants in the air, EVERYTHING. Everything traditional people did, from agricultural methods to food preparation, increased the nutrients. And that's why we have a health crisis today. There is no other way to solve it than to return to ancestral eating. 

Follow the money, and you'll know what the answer is. 

The eggs your grandmother ate are not the same as the ones you buy in the supermarkets. Ideally, we would not just be eating the way they ate but growing the food the way they did as well.

Politically Correct Nutrition revolves around the idea that we should reduce our intake of fats, saturated fats from animal sources in particular. Fats from animal sources contain cholesterol, the other "bad guy" in the civilized diet.

So how do we achieve the optimum expression of genetic potential? I believe there is no such thing as a congenital/generational defect but rather a generation or two of poor eating that disrupts the genetic blueprint. Returning to traditional foods creates leaders of the future. Techniques straight from our ancestors. 

Native Americans believed eating a healthy animal's liver could cure a sick human's liver. Eating the heart of a healthy animal, could heal an unhealthy heart. Ancestral eating is making a comeback across the Native country and other parts of the world. Some know it as Decolonizing Diet, Ancestral Diet, Tribal Food Sovereignty, or Traditional Eating; others have never heard of it. Ancestral eating means eating wholesome, natural, organic Indigenous foods from the earth – just like our ancestors did for thousands of years.

The basic idea of ancient practices remains with us today: building community, connecting with things outside of ourselves, and innovation as a means of survival.

For our ancestors, harvesting was an act of ceremony, through song, dance, and giving deep thanks to everything sacrificed to nurture, US.

Indigenous people relied on Mother Nature and her continual cycles. Alignment with the cycles of life is what has brought us so far as a whole.

Colonization successfully convinced the general population that Western medicine, industrialized foods, and technological advancements would help our health. However, the opposite occurred; we've seen a drastic decline in health over the years. Euro-American culture has devalued the importance of food as a whole. Many traditional practices, including health and wellness rituals that were upheld by our ancestors, have fallen by the wayside. Most of these practices were carried on through family, community, hunting, gathering, and ancient methods that we no longer use today. Methods that spark our primal being.

Our bodies weren't designed by Nature to eat foods made in factories. Each generation becomes more and more unhealthy as the quality of the food declines. 

The diets that our ancestors followed allowed them to have a better quality of life than many of us now. Indigenous peoples' foods were some of the first and most devastating attacks committed by early western governments. The invasion came with inevitable dramatic changes to the ecosystem. Hand in hand with the decline of food integrity was the strategic introduction of alcohol which added to the disconnect from our land and its resources, inevitably leading to poor health. 

Despite the known harmful effects on the mind and body, these foods are still used and at the forefront of modern grocery stores. As a result, we have an epidemic of obesity, infertility, autism, and deadly diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, and countless forms of cancer. Euro-American culture has successfully influenced humans, as a whole, to spiritually disconnect from our food. 

Let's start by going over what makes an ancestral food 'ancestral.' 

To spark a healthier relationship with food, it is crucial to have a basic understanding of ingredients before diving into recipes without knowing why. 

Ancestral foods are local, organic and seasonal.

Ancestral foods are primarily processed by hand at home. 

Ancestral eating is cultural. We model this by eating foods native to our land and sharing this experience with our children and community. 

Our ancestors would recognize ancestral foods and ingredients.

Ancestral foods are any foods that can be fished, hunted, or collected.

Ancestral foods are any foods that can be harvested from the earth or water.

Ancestral foods are foods that indigenous people enjoyed for centuries before agriculture and contact with European colonists.

Ancestral foods and drinks contain very few ingredients, haven't traveled far, and require little to no packaging.

Ancestral foods are 'Naturally Nourishing by Nature.'

Ancestral foods are low glycemic - with carbohydrate-rich foods like yams and sweet potatoes.

Ancestral foods are usually single, whole ingredients such as fish, vegetables, fruit, nuts, or seeds.

Your ancestor, or an indigenous ancestor from around the world, could recognize and use these ingredients in a meal.

Factory-made, processed foods contain ingredients our ancestors lived without for thousands of years. Before the dawn of the 'civilized world,' our people lived virtually disease-free and directly correlated with Mother Earth.