Long Needed Rest Week

It's Spring Break for our kids and I haven't had a rest week since last October (oh my) so I thought this would be a good time to r   e   s   t.   We went to Orlando for a couple of days and I thought it would be easy to stay paleo on the trip.  I ate eggs and bacon for breakfast, salads and burgers without buns for lunch, and I was pretty good at dinner - one night we went to a Mexican chain and ordered a huge fajita plate with 4 kinds of meat - AMAZING.  


The thing that surprised me was that even though I was eating foods that should have been paleo approved, they were full of sodium and chemicals and my body was bloated and angry about it.  I had a headache every morning and generally felt like garbage.  We are so used to eating at home and eating clean food that the processed food was killer.  


That scares me a little bit - first because a lot of people eat this way all the time.  How are we still functioning as a country?  Second because I love to travel and don't like to feel bad while I am doing it.  I know Orlando isn't like the rest of the world and you can find clean food on the road, but I really appreciate now why people open organic restaurants and if I could have found one by the third day of our trip, I probably would have stayed there for every meal.  


We have a lot of discussions in our family about the future of our country and staying competitive with the rest of the world.  My mother just returned from a trip to Vietnam.  Every meal there was meat and veggies.  (Yes, they do eat noodles and rice too).  She said she felt amazing on the trip - had a lot of energy and even went to the store when she got home and changed the way she shopped.  


The rest of the world is not eating our disgusting western processed made-in-a-factory diet and I question if this is not another obstacle (along with our messed up university system) to America remaining a super power in the world.  Our kids are hyper and distracted in school because they eat garbage for breakfast and lunch. The great founders of our country, the thinkers, inventors, authors and poets that shaped America until the middle of the last century, all ate clean food.  They were not bombarded with the factory food and chemicals we are dealing with today.  I predict that the great thinkers of our time will turn out to be people who eat clean food.  I'm just sayin'.


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