Want to be a real vegetarian?

We can all agree that the most common definition of vegetarian refers to someone who doesn't eat meat.  But if we go a little deeper into the etymology of the word vegetarian and even vegetable we find: from Late Latin (c.300-700) vegetabilis "animating, enlivening" and further back Proto-Indo-European (~5500 yrs ago) weg- "to be strong, lively."  So please allow me to go so far as to say that vegetable could be defined as "a lively food" and a vegetarian as "someone who is strong and lively."

It is one of my primary goals in life to find a diet that enables me to give my highest gifts for as long as possible.  If my own experience and trusted research is proving that meat protein and fat can help me acheive this goal than I would like to say I want to be a vegetarian who eats meat.

My nutritionist Seth Braun of High Energy Health coaching gave me a copy of this life-changing cookbook bible: Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats.

It was edited by Sally Fallon, who is the head of the Weston A. Price Foundation.  Weston Price traveled the world in the 20s and 30s studying the nutritional habits and dental structure of native and industrialized civilizations.   The non-native cultures were found to have lower lifespans and dental degeneration while the native cultures were the opposite.  The foundation website states: "Dr. Price's research demonstrated that humans achieve perfect physical form and perfect health generation after generation only when they consume nutrient-dense whole foods and the vital fat-soluble activators found exclusively in animal fats."  The foundation continues to do research on the cause of heart disease, the dangers of soy, and the value of animal fat and lacto-fermented beverages.

I want to emphasize that this is not your average vegetarian cookbook.  This is the result of decades of research about what keeps people healthy.  This book cites resources that challenge the common notions that animal fat and red meat cause heart disease.  According to the research: vegetable, soybean, canola, safflower, and similar oils should be avoided in favor of animal fat, olive oil, and tropical (coconut, palm) oils.  The book descibes how and way native cultures throughout history have managed their diet.

It begins with a 70 page introduction describing in-depth what we all should know about fats, carbs, proteins, sugar, milk, etc.  It will truly blow your mind.  If you're skeptical, I will personally buy you a copy if promise to invite me over for dinner.

I chose to eat meat because, as physically demanding a life as I've chosen, I felt it was more responsible than being a lazy vegetarian who wouldn't get the nutrients I needed.  As I walk the long path towards becoming the ideal practitioner I so often vision, I want to open myself to every possibility so I can find what will work best for now and every now to follow. This book offers a beautiful peak to aim for as I walk...