Modern life is a busy string of daily duties. From work outside the house to chores inside the house, and from parenting, school work, and extracurricular activities to meal-planning and (hopefully!) finding a place to sleep somewhere in there as well, how we manage to juggle it all is truly a miraculous, maniacal feat.

 

Unfortunately, this lifestyle has come at the cost of certain things, usually in the form of either not sleeping enough or not eating healthy enough. Coffee or tea can serve to pick us up after only a few hours of restless sleep at night and convenient, processed foods are generally satisfactory enough to keep our bellies full throughout the day. Because most of the time there simply is no time to consider an alternative to changing these habits. Right?

 

But what about that old adage Food is Medicine? Is that still a substantiated claim? Over the years, we have certainly come to believe it. Yet having said that, our family may not have made any drastic swing in the direction of change had deteriorating health not first mandated it.

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After a family member developed a wide array of food sensitivities stemming from inconclusive autoimmune problems, we were forced to cut out a multitude of daily food staples, including all grains, dairy, nuts, seeds, beans, legumes, nightshades, berries, and well, the list goes on. Basically, we were subsiding on water, love, and air. Times were tough.

 

One day, we revolted. This was just not going to cut it. Salads and deli ham slices were not going to be enough to satisfy. And the dietary restrictions we were subjected to were significantly impacting our intake of many vitamins and minerals that would have ordinarily come from our meals (e.g. calcium from dairy). And so, we embarked on a journey that sprouted arms and legs and eventually lead to our Adventures in Paleo.