Welcome to our new blog! To learn more about us and our approach, please visit our business website, Ancestral Generation.
Why Ancestral Generation? Both of us are focused on an ancestral diet, guided by evolutionary principles, as a means to optimum health and chronic disease prevention in the modern world. Thus, we want to help counsel this generation about the wisdom of ancestral foodways, as supported by modern science.
We created this blog to inform readers and potential clients about the rationale for our dietary recommendations of using more traditional foods such as animal fats to restore or promote better health. Our advice is hardly in line with so-called conventional wisdom, as the title of the blog might suggest! Since it would be difficult to lay out the full justification for our dietary recommendations in a short piece of writing, we decided to put a short synopsis of our rationale on the business website, publishing more extensive reading here on the blog.
Ancestral Generation, LLC primarily offers in-home nutrition and diet consultations in Colorado's Front Range area and the Bloomington, Indiana area. Both of us, co-owners of the company, are evolutionary biologists who hold BS, MS, and PhD degrees in biology. I (Monica Hughes) live in Colorado, and have worked as a college educator and freelance medical writer providing continuing physician education programs. My business partner, Jen Patterson, lives in Bloomington, Indiana and has independently studied natural health and nutritional approaches for nearly ten years.
Many people don't really need a consultation to get started on the right dietary lifestyle. That's why our blog is available for free. As far as we're concerned, it will be a better world for us and our families when those around us are also well-nourished, healthy, and happy. To that end, we've also provided links to other excellent nutritional resources with an ancestral perspective on the right-hand sidebar of our main site. These resources and our blog should help "do-it-yourself-ers" to get started.
In fact, since so much knowledge on ancestral diets is available already, one might reasonably ask, "Why start a business and offer nutritional consulting at all?" There are a few simple reasons.
What we've discovered is that many people don't have the time or interest to research the details of an ancestral diet for themselves. They've heard about the benefits. They want to eat right or to change their lifestyle in some significant way. But they aren't that interested in spending the time, or may not have the scientific background necessary, to evaluate the data at hand.
Many of us who eat this way, or write about it extensively, have put in hundreds to thousands of hours researching the basis for our decisions. Not everyone has the time or energy for that, and many are completely confused about the conflicting messages they hear from the media, from public health authorities, and from the medical profession (within which there are often significant disagreements from practitioner to practitioner). They just want to cut to the chase and have someone trustworthy offer them some sound scientific advice, condensed to a few short hours, in order to get started.
Others need some more serious one-on-one guidance. They maybe so used to buying and eating pre-packaged foods that they lack the most basic knowledge of food and/or cooking techniques. They may think they don't have time to cook, they may not know where to begin, or they may truly have no idea how to prepare a meal from fresh, whole food ingredients. Worse still, many people believe that pre-packaged "low fat", "fat free", "sugar free", or "low carb" foods or newfangled "health foods", for example, are actually healthier than eating real, whole foods that humans relied on for 99.5% of our evolutionary history. I know that I certainly fit into this mindset for most of my life.
Thus, there is a significant sector of the population that needs a bit of extra help getting started.
As part of our one-on-one, in-home consultations, we offer a pantry evaluation and clean-out, one month of support via email or telephone, and 50 pages of information including guides to dietary fats, eating out, and sourcing healthier products over time. The shopping guide is locally focused to those living in Colorado and Indiana. Phone consultations are also available for people who have more specific questions. Please contact us for more information.
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