Sometimes you will find me promoting food groups that are not exactly healthy – ice cream, cookies, chocolates, etc., and I want to explain the most important reason why I do that:
Displacement
My goal is not to make you eat more ice cream and cookies, but rather to use the suggested recipes to displace the very unhealthy versions that you are likely eating. In addition, I can:
- expose you to healthy food and ingredients
- promote good sources, companies, healers, etc.
- provide general education about wellness
- get your attention
Let’s face it, ice cream is sexy. It’s beautiful. It’s delicious. There are tons of photos on the internet, and people love to see pictures of ice cream. There is nothing I can do to change that. People are going to continue to view and consume ice cream for a very long time, so I need to tap into that and try to inject something good.
But make no mistake – ice cream of any kind is not a health food. And my friend Tom poked me with an email after seeing me ‘promoting’ raw milk ice cream last week. He had all good points – we should not be consuming ice cream of any sort, or putting anything super cold into our bodies. I agree completely. So, if you can avoid ice cream, definitely do so. If you cannot, then at least try to consume the healthiest versions possible.
I had a similar conversation with my nephew and niece recently (Thomas and Danielle). When discussing kefir, Danielle exclaimed to me that she is just a young college girl that wants to enjoy bad food and not think about it too much. Hard to argue with her, so I told her to put ice cream in her kefir shakes if she wants to. Do whatever it takes to motivate her to get kefir into her body – to get her to love kefir. This is basically what I did for myself, as I do not actually like the taste of plain kefir.
Luckily for me, blending kefir with bananas and/or other fruits makes it even healthier, and insanely delicious… I would actually choose a banana mango kefir shake over a chocolate shake any day 😉
