Wildervore Diet
The Wildervore Diet; the Eco-omnivore diet designed to save the planet and recover your health.
There has been a slow but harmful shift in our relationship with our environment. Humans started as just another species living within our ecological means. Human evolution has dramatically twisted our situation and most of us now live separate from our land, eating what food producers want to grow. Not only has this had serious consequences for our land, habitats and wildlife, it has destroyed our health too.
Most diet plans focus on improving your health or helping you lose weight. The Wildervore approach shows you that choosing nourishing foods can be a powerful way to influence farming and food production methods whilst receiving significant health benefits. (It’s like an added level of ‘goodness’ to the usual healthy diets).
Benefits of following the Wildervore Diet
The physical health benefits of the Wildervore diet are similar to those of Paleo and Primal diets, but the key difference with this diet are the social and moral factors you will be influencing. You will be improving your physical health whilst making a lasting impact on our serious global issues like: soil degradation, climate change and sustainability. The question is ‘how do we feed a growing population sustainably?’
- You’ll be actively supporting farmers who are regenerating our soils. This means you’ll be building food security and helping fight the climate challenge.
- You’ll be enjoying foods that are higher in important nutrients than supermarket and mass produced foods.
- Promoting high animal welfare standards. Animals from regenerative farms are well cared for, having enough space to roam and healthy pasture or local food to eat year round.
- Reducing your carbon footprint, by choosing foods that are locally grown and produced you will be reducing your impact on the global ecosystem. By buying locally you’ll indirectly reduce energy consumption, social vulnerability and improve our ecosystems.
- You won’t be overeating on poor quality foods, this means you will receive health benefits such as improved gut health, more energy and less cravings for processed foods.
- You’ll reduce your consumption of harmful chemicals and therefore improve and protect the environment and your health.
The Wildervore Diet Guidelines:
- Eat from ecosystems: Nature builds complexity; it helps keep our planet healthy, species in balance and improves food security for all living organisms. We’ve been fighting nature by trying to keep soil bare, growing single species or eliminating ‘pests’, this all takes enormous amounts of energy and creates unstable life conditions. Many modern foods are grown in this way, we need to encourage farming practices that mimic ecosystems.
- Eat wild and free: By growing food instead of lawns (or covering soil with concrete) and utilising common wild foods we could dramatically improve localised food security, improve our well-being and cheaply expand our range of foods to include more nutrient super foods.
- Eat organic foods: Eating foods that have been grown without harmful chemicals, processing methods and supporting animal agriculture that isn’t reliant on harmful interventions is a great way to protect the environment and our health.
- Eat food from regenerating soils: Eating food from farms that use regenerative practices builds food security, helps fight the climate challenge, and the food will be higher in important nutrients.
- Eat healthy animals: Feeding cattle and sheep on grains is inefficient, energy intensive and produces sick animals which are likely to need medical intervention. Buy 100% grass fed meat products where possible. If you eat omnivore animals, like pigs and chickens, ensure they are fed on a locally sourced foods and have access to healthy land.
- Eat seasonal food from your landscape: The movement of foods across the world to supply our ever changing tastes and dietary trends is leading to enormous energy use, poor quality food, social vulnerability and large scale ecological destruction. The simple act of eating foods that can be grown in your region can allow us to reduce negative impacts and better see the consequences of our buying power.
- Eat what you need: In the West we’re eat so much, and of the wrong stuff, it’s making us sick and then we throw nearly half of it away! By learning and valuing what foods will nourish you, you can cut global food consumption and encourage sustainable production methods.
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The Wildervore diet is hard to capture in just a few paragraphs and bullet points. The Wildervore Diet, designed by Wilderculture, has created a course to help you truly understand the impact you could have on our world, if you use your buying power to promote change in farming methods.
The course is completely free and even if you don’t decide to follow the diet, the principles behind the diet will be sure to leave you with ‘food for thought’.