I’m sorry for anyone still loyal enough to check my blog. I’ve been MIA for a while due to life circumstances. Luckily this time no hospital visits… But my fiancé and I have opened an Organic Café! It had been insanely busy I have not been able to write.

Knowing where our food comes from is getting more and more difficult these days. Modern day farming and mass production means chemical-laden and genetically-modified foods are the majority of our intake… Unless we actively seek the natural alternative. The human body has not evolved at the same rate our foods have (we don’t have the ability to digest the GMOs and degrade the chemicals). Is this why we have a tremendous spike in gastrointestinal disease?

When I think back to my childhood, I remember my mother always made an effort to cook us healthy, wholesome and balanced meals. There was always meat and vegetables on our plate. Despite our British heritage (which meant every Sunday having a rather brown looking dinner of roast beef, mashed potatoes and gravy! Yummm!) she made sure there was always something green on our plates. As a teenager I adopted a vegetarian diet and developed anorexia nervosa. For three years or so I was underweight and ate primarily bagels with a rather processed vegetarian microwaveable burger for dinner. My mother and father could not persuade me otherwise, and I think were just happy I was eating something. I recovered from anorexia and began eating a more varied diet. I went off to University where I ate a variety of foods, but much of it was processed and eaten on the run. That’s when my symptoms started. Did stress start the cascade of inflammation or was it diet that slowly eroded my bowel lining? Probably both. I didn’t ever considered eating organic. If we had grown our own foods on our own healthy soil, would I be sick today?

Have you ever eaten a ripe organic tomato off the vine and compared it to the imported grocery store tomato? I dare you.

I challenge my Gypsy followers to examine their dietary history. Where did it all go wrong? In our fast-paced world is it possible to avoid these toxic indigestible substances?

Check out this link where Jini Patel Thompson discusses organic foods:

http://www.listen2yourgut.com/conventional-organic.php

A healthy organic meal at our restaurant!