The Real Food Guide: How We Ate 100 Years Ago

I’m hungry… what should I eat? Low fat? Low sodium? Low carb? High protein?

When did eating get so complicated?

It hasn’t always been like this. We ate in-season food from our local area and we cooked the recipes our mothers or grandmothers taught us to make. We didn’t calculate the number of calories we ate, or grams of carbs or fat. We ate real food and we enjoyed it.

What Went Wrong With Nutrition?

As a society, we’re arguably better fed than we have ever been, but are we better nourished? There are many new theories that say no – we have an abundance of food but we are starving on a cellular level. I’ve spent the last 14 years totally consumed by nutritional research, trying to figure out what went wrong and how to fix the problem, and I have a few theories