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Food & Nutrition

The REAL Food Guide: How We Ate 100 Years Ago

The USDA's original food pyramid from 1992.
The USDA’s original food pyramid from 1992. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

By, Lisa Kilgour, RHN , Collective Evolution

 

I’m hungry… what should I eat? Low fat? Low sodium? Low carb? High protein?

 

When did eating get so complicated?

 

It hasn’t always been like this. We ate in-season food from our local area and we cooked the recipes our mothers or grandmothers taught us to make. We didn’t calculate the number of calories we ate, or grams of carbs or fat. We ate real food and we enjoyed it.

 

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