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| Nutrition and Diet
[Please note: Workshops will be held on this and other related topics at Mabou Ridge Centre in the summer months.]
In the era of fast food restaurants, packaged convenience foods, cans of pop or soda, frozen foods, and foods laced with preservatives, it's quite a challenge to eat healthily. It is now known that preservative agents, processed foods, colourants, and freezer-to-oven selections are contaminated with toxins, metals, and other non-biodegradable substances which may lodge in the body and are hard to digest and eliminate. Worse, they contribute to malfunction of the body, which is trying hard to protect itself and maintain its balance. Such ingredients contribute to chronic illnesses and destroy the body’s natural immune system to function effectively.
Many proponents of good nutrition recommend a return to simplicity in the preparation and combining of foods. Products harvested from the garden – without pesticides or synthetic growth powders – maintain their original flavours and nutrient properties. They taste quite different, richer, fuller.
Mabou Ridge Centre for Holistic Living encourages the growth of traditional northern foods, using organic seeds wherever possible. Companion planting helps to control common garden pests and does not kill those insects which aid in garden clean-up. Wherever possible, snacks, such as those available for llama treks, are prepared from garden produce.
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