Feast Day Foods

      Traditionally, most cultures used to have a celebration, a feast day, once a month at most. Special foods were prepared, foods that had expensive ingredients, and were time consuming to make. There wasn't the time or money to make much in the way of leftovers. Now these same foods are inexpensive, readily available and every day has become a feast day. Our bodies can't handle it.

     Feast day foods are like getting a huge snow fall. For a few days everyone gets out and enjoys the snow. People play, they have fun, but if there aren't the facilities to remove the snow, everything grinds to a halt. People can't get to work, to school, to get groceries. That is what feast day foods do to our bodies.  

      Celebrations are important, as are the foods that go with them. So occasionally enjoy the birthday cake, the dinner at a friend's house, the holiday spread, but then go back to eating a more simple diet, foods the body needs, and can easily digest. And skip the gum, candy, mints, and elaborate drinks, breads, pastas, dairy, wheat and corn products, that can creep into daily diets.

      Feast days are an important part of life. As long as every day isn't a feast day.

                                                   Health & Happiness,

                                                         Nancy Burton, L.Ac.

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