Life is all about balance. Let’s try some word association to prove the point. Night and …? Good and …? Joy and …? Yin and …? Sweet and …? See how the opposites balance each other?
Now for some fun. What if we took the two most opposite dietary stances, veganism and paleo, and put them on the balancing scales? Then if we used the very best concepts from each and applied them to our diets we would have, I believe, a wonderfully balanced diet filled with all the nutrients we need to thrive.
The diet might look something like this: All fruit and vegetables, nuts and seeds plus a small amount of the very best grains (think Ezekial bread and quinoa), grassfed beef, organic chicken and free-range eggs.
Many different diets have sustained people throughout the world for millennia. The healthiest diets, whether they include meat or are totally vegetarian, seem to have in common one element—most of the food is natural. We in the so-called civilised world need to ditch a lot of what we’re eating now and get back to basics. We should be aiming for the best quality real food that we can afford.