Day 6: A Diet to Die for

Well, feeling much better today. All of yesterday I had no feeling to eat, and was only persuaded into lunch by a luscious vegetable zuppa that Cassie and I whipped up. By dinner I was in company, as Cassie's sister Gina and her husband Mahendra came to see us. Both of them have been on the diet for about 2 months, and we all shared a melt-in-your-mouith leg of organic lamb with rosemary and garlic Cooked in cassie's Romantoff. Mahendra, in his sixties, is looking fabulous, having dropped  kilos worth of belly. Gina is also looking great; with an 'alert' energy emanating from her. Mahendra, a lover of all things carne, loves the diet because he gets plenty of what he likes, but he hasn't missed the absence of bread, fruit, coffee of alcohol.

The big difference with this diet is that it's based on a  radically different approach to any other diet. It's proposing that we don't naturally have sugar in any form, or yeast products, or starchy foods. It's saying we are natural low-to-no carb systems and that the introduction of sugar has caused all of the problems that other diets rave on about so much. Lo-fat food, no saturated fats, less sugar, sure but... all the problem with fats, the problems with diabetes, the problem with our addiction to sugar has all come about through the change to agrarian lifestyle and less natural (close to nature) diet. It's saying give up sugar and carbs and see for yourself. 

What a challenge, and how lucky I am to have people around me doing it and showing me the results. Cassie, Gina and Mahendra are all committed Alkalarians, but it seems to me that this is the next stage. It's no longer the alkaline diet; it's evolving to the alkaline-acid diet; the best of both worlds!