Healthful Habit 7/52

Healthful Habits is a way for our family to intentionally implement a more wholesome style of living one small step at a time. The process of executing these small changes over the course of a year enables them to become lifelong habits.

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This is perhaps the most controversial of all the healthful habits we've attempted thus far. Modern nutrition experts have worked hard to convince us a low-fat diet full of polyunsaturated vegetable fats is the key to good cardiovascular health. Recent research and ancient traditional nutrition proves them wrong.

Healthful Habit 6/52

Healthful Habits is a way for our family to intentionally implement a more wholesome style of living one small step at a time. The process of executing these small changes over the course of a year enables them to become lifelong habits.

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If at first you don't succeed... try, try again!

Healthful Habit 5/52

Healthful Habits is a way for our family to intentionally implement a more wholesome style of living one small step at a time. The process of executing these small changes over the course of a year enables them to become lifelong habits.

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In the spirit of full disclosure, I have to admit this healthful habit sorta "grosses me out". Not the making of the chicken stock, but the preparation of the raw-chicken-that-must-be-cooked-in-order-to-have-the-bones-to-make-the-stock. However, I am fully convinced of the wonderful properties this food item has to offer and so will endure the disgusting task* of raw chicken carcass preparation* *. Plus, pastured chicken makes for some really tasty burritos and chicken gumbo soup.

Healthful Habit 4/52

Healthful Habits is a way for our family to intentionally implement a more wholesome style of living one small step at a time. The process of executing these small changes over the course of a year enables them to become lifelong habits.

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I've never been one to use a significant amount of salt. Having grown up in a home where we didn't even own a tabletop salt shaker, I guess the taste for added salt is one I've never developed. Other than the typical teaspoon amount called for when cooking, our kitchen salt container never received much attention until I stumbled upon the topic while reading Real Food. It turns out there's more to this common ingredient than I expected.

Healthful Habit 3/52

Healthful Habits is a way for our family to intentionally implement a more wholesome style of living one small step at a time. The process of executing these small changes over the course of a year enables them to become lifelong habits.

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The decision to begin purchasing grass-fed beef and pastured pork is the third healthful habit we implemented this year. Writers much more knowledgeable than I have expounded on the benefits of these products, but here are a few of the reasons that compelled us to make the change.