Balanced

The Primal diet is unbalanced by modern diet standards - and makes no bones about it. It's unbalanced because the premise is that the grains and the like that the modern diet is based upon are unhealthy for the body.

Now, I can kind of understand nutritionists saying this diet isn't idea because you eliminate whole food groups - we're been working for years under the idea that a healthy diet is a varied diet, and overly limited diets are either inadequate on the nutrition or just too dang hard to stick to.

But what bugs me is the whole dairy thing. I read a post yesterday from a registered dietician that said eliminating dairy was bad because you might not get enough Vitamin D.

Excuse me? Vitamin D does not naturally occur in dairy. That's just where we happen to put the supplements, since it goes so nicely with calcium. So how does that make sense? If I need Vitamin D, what makes more sense: either take a Vitamin D pill or maybe go out in the sun for a little while, or take a glass of milk and dump some Vitamin D in there, drink it, and repeat until I get enough??!?

The idea that this is an unbalanced diet because I'm missing out on supplements commonly put into milk - or bread and cereals, for that matter - is just silly. If I need vitamins, then the idea that I should eat other food that doesn't contain those vitamins either, but which has been supplemented with them -- well, this just sums up how skewed our whole relationship with food has gotten, in my opinion.

Breakfast

Green/fruit smoothie - blueberries, pineapple, banana, spinach, water, and my personal Smoothie Boost (dulse, maca, hemp seed, flax seed)

Snack

Diced apple with shredded carrot and a handful of raisins

Lunch

Spinach salad with bacon and scallops

Snack

Lara bar - Cherry Pie, contains peanuts but I'm still using up what's in the pantry

Dinner

Boneless pork chop and Birds Eye Steam Fresh Asian