Embrace The Five Flavors

We all want to eat healthier but let’s face it, we only enjoy foods that taste great to us. How do we coach our palates to enjoy baked salmon vs. a slice of deli pizza? Our ancestors relied on their taste buds to signal safety and nutritional value in foods. Today, without the necessity for survival, the role of our taste buds have been “dumbed down”. Convenient packaged and processed foods have stolen our sense of taste, fooling our brains towards unhealthy cravings, misleading us to poor eating habits and sabotaging our best inten- tions to feel well. The good news is that we can reprogram our palate to enjoy all the flavor sensations with the foods our ancestors enjoyed.

Five Weeks, five strategies, and five flavors are outlined below. This is a new conversation without dictating what is bad or good for you, but rather is a process to reconnect your taste buds to balance out your bodies unique nutri- tional needs. As the weeks go by, you may notice blueberries become sweet again, vegetables are savory, roasted mushrooms satisfy you and baked sweet potatoes are truly enough to curb any sweet tooth. Our mission is in the hope you will learn to trust your body; recognizing that you do have all the answers you need on the tip of your tongue for the ideal foods that make you well.