
Last week I submitted my last Fresh Factor post and wrapped up the local produce column I started writing in March. In all, I have submitted some 24 info-packed, photo-decorated articles to the Guam Guide over the past six months. It's nice to know that some of the tips and tricks it took me two years to figure out around here won't all take off with us when we leave in a couple of weeks. It was also fun to learn that the blog has been syndicated in Korean!
But more than that, the Fresh Factor represents what has turned into a fundamental change in how we now approach health and nutrition. My journey to Thailand where I discovered the value of local produce came just weeks before Nick's command brought a paleo expert out to Guam to speak at a family retreat. A year later, we aren't 100% paleo, but we have adopted many of the principles, such as cutting out wheat and much of the dairy we were consuming before... eating whole rather than processed foods. Generally speaking, we eat a lot less fluff and a lot more green stuff.


I took a picture of the medicine because at the time of this discovery, I was filled with so much gratitude for how healthy we have been (I hesitate to write that in case it's an omen to jinx us). To me all of this medicine represents how many times we could have been sick but weren't. And how simple it was to take a major variable out of the health equation simply by eating less crap (and understanding what "crap" is disguised as). It's so obvious that the way to better health is through diet and exercise. The trick is I thought I'd been eating healthy all along until the very principle of what is healthy was redefined.

Wow! I am so inspired by your improved health! I'm inspired enough to start eating better myself!!
ReplyDeleteI love hearing about how Paleo changed your life! It is incredible how eating a certain way...the "redefined way" of healthy, is life changing. I am heading to read your Fresh Factor post now :) I dream of eating what we ate in Thailand and cooking with all those fresh, inexpensive, organic ingredients.
ReplyDeleteIsn't it incredible how much a change in diet can do? Crazy! Now, I'm off to read your last Fresh Factor post and cry quietly into my glass of wine...
ReplyDeleteIs the drink Paleo?!?
ReplyDeleteWhy yes it is! Pretty much all of the recipes I have posted for the Fresh Factor were secretly paleo :)
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