Eating on Home Turf
Determining what a healthy diet means for you can be confusing. Marketing tactics and sensational headlines abound, promising the next miracle fruit will give us unending vibrancy, and claiming one specific way of eating as best for all of us. It makes sense; life is busy, so we crave simplicity, while businesses want to sell, so they generalize our needs. Yet each of us has unique needs, and these needs change, quite literally, with the weather. It’s one of many ways that our biography becomes our biology. The irony here is that when we skip the “health check” assurances and magazine headlines in grocery store aisles, going instead to the farmer’s market to purchase local, organic, seasonal whole foods, we take the guess work out of nutrition and give our planet a chance.