WHY do we need to eat that?

So one book having led to another as they do (and as amazon helps kindle readers along with so well) I started Scott Jurek's Eat and Run. I would say it's the most influential book I've read this year (and, being me, I've read a few).  It's led me on a journey towards questioning why I eat certain foods, what the benefit to me is and set me off on another path of food based consciousness and awareness.


Scott follows a plant based (dairy free and wheat free) diet and has found that he recovers faster, races better and is in better overall health than when following his previous diet.  His book gives recipes at the end of each chapter which are easy to follow and tasty.

I feel like I've started to see clearer where food is concerned and that I'd gone along with things that I'd been told - some of them years ago, and many by large corporations that would have no concern for my individual benefit.  Sorry may be the hardest word but the most illuminating one I think must be 'WHY'.

Why do we, the only mammal out there that does, consume (and think we NEED) milk after weaning? Why do we need protein from other animals when the largest land mammals get their proteins from plant foods?  Why is osteoporosis on the increase when the very food we're being told will help prevent it is being consumed at an accelerated rate?

I don't have all the answers, but I'm definitely finding more questions and feeling the freedom from doing so.  My challenge for this month is having a solely veggie diet and having loved it will plan to stay this way, moving towards my November vegan based diet challenge, discovering more questions, foods and fun along the way.

Eat well, run with joy and ask 'why?'!

Em x