What to Do, What to Do.

I can't decide what to do about the blog-- let's be real, my time commitments have changed dramatically and blogging takes a lot of work.

I need to rethink how I can do it while still keeping up with life. I am back to traveling every other week and about to become every week. It's a challenge to keep the koolaid on the road. Between challenges with time, challenges with gyms and challenges where I get stuck in a place that makes following Paleo hard, its just been a bit of a shitstorm of late.

I did finally get into the habit of taking a pullup bar with me when I travel. You heard me right-- I travel with a pull up bar. Fortunately I've been going back and forth to Washington and getting that on the train is easy-- pretty soon I am back to flying the not so friendly skies, and I am not sure I am ready to deal with checking luggage each week-- but you never know. It took me so long to get pull ups, that if I don't keep working on them, they go to hell. (Here's a fun action shot from a few weeks ago)



Anyway, yes I am still here. Yes, I am still drinking the koolaid- I am still running (when I have time to run) in my vibrams, still eating like I live in a cave (except when trapped in a week long training in an industrial park when all food is brought in because we can't leave), and most of all yes, I am still crossfitting. One of these days I'll be back to the blogging thing too. I swear.

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A Summary of the Crossfit 2009 Games

Well, the games came and went with a lot of fanfare. I wish I had been there to witness some of the astounding feats of strength and endurance that took place. In the end one man and one woman were crowned World's Fittest Man and World's Fittest Woman. So I thought I'd share with you what it takes, over 2 days, to earn that title.

Here are the series of workouts the competitors had to endure over the course of 2 days.

WOD 1:
The first event is a 7.1km run through varied terrain including both asphalt and extremely steep hills off trail.

WOD 2:
Heaviest successful deadlift completed lifting one rep every 30sec. Each competitor will begin at the first barbell, which weighs 315lbs for men and 185lbs for women. The athlete then has 10sec plus any portion of the 20sec remaining to set up at the next bar, which is 10lbs heavier than the previous (so the second bar weighs 325/195). Athletes continue moving to progressively heavier bars until they fail. The athletes are ranked according to the heaviest successful weight lifted before failing.

WOD 3:
The men will pick up two 35lb sandbags (loosely packed) and sprint approximately 170m uphill. The sandbags begin flat on the ground. The sprint is steep in places, with approximately 100' in elevation gain over the 170m course. Women carry one 35lb sandbag for the same course.

WOD 4:
Row 500m
Hammer a 4' metal stake into specially prepared, evenly compacted ground (women use a 3' stake)
Row 500m

WOD 5:
3 rounds of
- 30 wall-ball throws 10 feet
- 30 squat snatches (75lbs for the men, 45lbs for the women)

WOD 6 (Sunday 9am):
1 Rep Maximum Snatch

WOD 7:
As many rounds as possible in eight minutes of:
4 handstand push-ups on paralletes
8 kettlebell swings (2 pood/75lbs for the men, 1.5 pood/55lbs for the women)
12 GHD sit-ups.

WOD 8:
15 barbells cleans (155lb for the men, 100lbs for the women)
30 toes to bar
30 box jumps (24 inches for the men, 20 inches for the women)
15 muscle-ups
30 push presses (40lbs for the men, 25lbs for the women)
30 double-unders
15 thrusters (135lb for the men, 95lbs for the women)
30 pull-ups
30 burpees
Overhead walking lunges (45lbs for the men, 25lbs for the women)


Needless to say there were few people left standing at the end of this weekend, but the top 3 men and women were crowned World's Fittest for good reason. Sadly, Gillian was eliminated at the end of the first day (after WOD 5).

Now I get to sit and anxiously await all the video to come out so I can watch what was an incredible weekend, to say the least.

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Crossfit Games and "Every Second Counts"

This will be a quick post, that's for sure.

This weekend, July 10-12th, in Aromas California, the Crossfit Games 2009 kicks off. As many of you know, I volunteered at the Northeast Qualifier that sent the top 5 men and women from each qualifier go on to Aromas (along with the top competitors from last year) and go on to compete for the prize of $5,000 each and the bragging rights for being the fittest person on earth. No one knows what the workouts will be until they "come out of the hopper" but we are told that some things have never been done by Crossfit before, so this should be good. And I will be cheering for our own Crossfit South Brooklyn's Gillian Mounsey, who is one of our coaches and who placed 3rd in last years games. I wish I could be in Aromas to watch, but in the meantime, well, hey, at least the Crossfit movie "Every Second Counts" is coming out and it gives you a great view of what really goes on with Crossfit.



And yes, for those of you who are wondering, this is an incredibly accurate portrayal of Crossfit and the crazy culture that surrounds it-- hand callouses and all.

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Life Back on the Road

It's taken me a bit to get to this. After two back to back weeks on the road (with a 36 hour home layover), I am finally back to my normal routine back here in good old Brooklyn. Some fun stuff to report from travel, so here it goes.

I left you promising I'd give you an update on my first real running barefoot attempt, so let's start there. My first week on the road was in Denver. I landed very late Sunday night and had to be up and running on Monday morning, so by the time Monday night rolled around, I crashed. I planned for my barefoot run to go down Tuesday morning. I decided to do my run on the treadmill because it would afford me a far more pliable surface than the road would. I also knew I had to keep the miles slow and short because this would be a very different experience than my body was used to. So off I went at 5am Tuesday morning.

Let me first start with the observation that altitude really does have on athleticism. Having been to Denver before, but never as an athlete, I felt a little less prepared for this-- I mean, you hear it, but its another thing to experience it. It didn't take me long to feel that impact rather acutely as my pace was naturally slowed by a sense that I couldn't get nearly enough air in me. The run itself felt a little strange at first. I'm getting more used to a ball-of-foot strike using my newtons, but what I hadn't expected is how jarring that impact can feel with nothing at all there. It took me a few steps before I noticed I was totally changing up my land to something a lot smoother and lighter. I'm not sure the entire explanation for how that happened because it wasn't conscious, but I was definitely aware that almost right away my body was conditioned to do something, it did it, it hurt, it modified. Much unlike being in my newtons, I didn't have to think about foot placement-- my body just sort of did it because of comfort. I don't think I appreciated how far off of normal biomechanics shoes really make things until that moment. It was eye opening.

I ran about 2 miles. Slowly. I was thinking I wanted to do more because it was feeling good except that there was a small spot on the inside of my right arch just behind the ball of my foot that could feel a rub from the seam of the vibram itself. I didn't want to rub that spot raw and realized I would need to get my feet used to a lot of time in the shoes first, but ultimately thats what made me stop. At no point in my run did my knees hurt. At no point did I knick the inside of my ankle bone with my opposite foot as I often do in shoes. It felt good and easy.

While in Denver I decided to check out my local Crossfit affiliate-- I am learning that this is critical to my keeping my sense of sanity on the road. So I wound up at Front Range Crossfit, the site of the Rocky Mountain Qualifiers for the Crossfit games. It was great to do a workout with a group of people that really brought their game-- and despite the incredible challenge the altitude was giving me, I hit a new PR in a lift that has stymied me for a while. So after 2 days of working with the crew there, I was beyond thrilled.

From there I headed home for a mere 36 hours which was mostly laundry, restocking cat food and some quiet time before I was on a train to Virginia (this had all unfolded on Monday in Denver). I figured I'd try out my luck there too and wound up at another Crossfit affiliate-- Crossfit Fairfax where the workout was equally challenging, but I loved it. This affiliate will likely be a frequent stop for me going forward if I spend time in Virginia.

My week at home has been good-- I am finally hitting my groove again and have really enjoyed coming back to my own box and working out again with the crew. It's nice to have everyone tell me how much I have been missed-- my affiliate really does feel like a bit of family.

And on that note, I am going to stop with a notation that I will need to explain in more detail, but...

This weekend we have a big event at the box. Jacinto turns 70. Jacinto is one of the Crossfit trainers and a bit of a legend, truth be told. We call him the Warrior and there are tee-shirts many of us sport with his picture on the front. Here is a picture I took of him at the recent Northeast Qualifier Games where Jacinto went toe to toe with all the far younger male competitors. He is our hero, to say the least.


In honor of Jacinto's 70th birthday, we do the workout of Jacinto's choice, and this annual event has become known as Jacintostorm. So tomorrow, I will be executing the following workout:

Run 620 meters
70 Squats
70 Push-ups
70 Pull-ups or Jumping Pull-Ups
70 Wall Ball Shots with a weighted medicine ball
70 Kettlebell Swings
70 Deadlifts 65lbs
Run 620 meters

Yeah, looks painful huh? So tomorrow we get our asses kicked for and with Jacinto, who proves to us year after year that you are never too old to throw down.

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Barefoot Running

I gave this topic some brief mention back on the old blog, but after some time, I need to come back to it, cause this week it's gonna be big... I'm learning to run barefoot.

Yep. You heard me. And here's how I am gonna do it.


That, my friends, is my leg and foot (you can tell by the pasty, glow-in-the-dark pallor) ... sporting my new pair of (drumroll, please...) Vibram Five Fingers.

So these are my new shoes. Are they dorky? You better believe it. Will I look silly wearing them? Absa-smurfly. Will they allow me to run injury free while improving the biomechanics of my run? I believe they will. So I'm willing to look the part of the tool if it gets me where I need to be.

Back in October I tried a pair of these bad boys on, only to walk away in disappointment because the muscles in my feet did not have the flexibility and the give to articulate my toes enough to separate them into the toes of these shoes. I set out on a mission at that point to be able to strengthen my feet to help achieve that goal. Last week, I tried on a pair again and my work has paid off.

Since October I have been working on separating my toes as much as I could, using toe spreaders and toe spreading sandals. I also bought pairs of wicking socks that kept my toes separated so that I could keep wearing my sandals in the house when it was cold.

For 9 months I just sort of tried this out. What I noticed in the meantime was that my balance improved. My feet widened-- I always joked about my "ski feet," but the truth is that I struggled to find shoes in a AA width because they were so narrow. My overall flexibility improved and in small increments, the muscles that articulate my toes began to work. As of last week, my feet finally, comfortably, went into the Vibrams so I could walk around.

It's hard to describe how these things feel. I wore them for a workout at Crossfit last week-- we were doing powercleans and box jumps, so there was a fair amount of jumping involved. First thing I noticed was the extent to which my feet were it-- there isn't really a sole on these things so much as a thin layer of countoured rubber. The arch of the foot is left to do what it wants, and every place your foot wants to touch the floor, it will. My work over these past few months in yoga has been to pull up my arches and begin to stand on the outer parts of my feet while trying to engage that arch up off the floor. This will become more important as the process to running barefoot begins to take off. When jumping, the second thing I noticed is the inclination to hit on my heal and then let the rest of my feet sort of find their way to the ground. Doing this without the luxury of padding hurt. I had to begin to think about landing from a jump onto as much of my feet as I could... toes, ball, outside edge and heel, to disperse the jolt. Lastly, I needed to land lighter and more controlled. My first few powercleans were ugly and wobbly but eventually it felt good. My later box jumps felt the same way and in time I actually felt more stable doing this.

I decided as well that day to walk home in my shoes. Imagine walking for half an hour, on concrete and asphalt, totally barefoot. I've spent 36 years walking in shoes-- its rare for us all to walk around the world without them, so my first attempt at this was very strange. I could literally feel everything... every crack, every textured surface, every pebble. I noticed the extent to which my heel strike was very pronounced and hard. My inclination was to always keep my ankle at this 90 degree angle and just sort of plant my foot and roll over it and back up never allowing my ankle to release that angle. Remember back when I got my bike fitting and the fitter noted the degree to which my ankle was not flexing in either direction (the plantar flexion vs. dorsiflexion angles)-- it became pretty apparent where that behavior gets solidified-- basic walking in shoes. It felt so strange that within my first few paces, my heel strike had to adjust more forward to my midfoot and everything had to compensate. It's hard to describe this except to say that walking started taking place behind me instead of in front of me. Maybe if you have a long hallway or a yard or something you can experience this too-- when you walk in shoes, your land is forward of your hips. When you walk barefoot, your land is about equal with your hips. It's less about pulling up to where you foot landed and more about pushing back from where you currently are. It's a strange shift and hard to describe, but it became very apparent to me walking home that night.

The last several months I have been playing with a biomechanical style of running called POSE. In order to begin to adopt Pose, until I could run barefoot, I needed to cut back on my running and begin to train my body to run with a midfoot strike-- and one of the things that helped me to develop that while still providing me the cushioning of allowing my feet to strengthen, were some shoes called Newtons. Between the Newton-forced midfoot strike, and the migration towards Pose using some of the strengthening exercises they recommend, my body has finally reached a point of being ready to try barefoot running.

This week I am on the road in Denver, Colorado. I am looking forward to finding the local Crossfit affiliate and trying my first official short run in my vibrams-- in fact, I haven't packed any other shoes, so I'm backing myself into the proverbial corner of trying this out. What's the worst that can happen right?

Stay tuned for details-- this could get interesting.

I end you today on what I like to call Workout Porn (sorry Mom, but having tried Crossfit yourself you should appreciate this even more now)-- my all-time favorite Crossfit workout: The Bear. The picture of me in my profile is from doing this very workout.

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A Man Named Murph

I haven't really delved much into Crossfit since starting up this new blog, but this weekend gives me a good reason to finally do so. We took on a well known workout this weekend called Murph that has a really powerful story behind it.

I mentioned in the old blog, if you followed it, that there are several different kinds of workouts we do at Crossfit. Some are just your basic WOD (workout of the day) that are combinations of exercises designed to develop Crossfitters towards a primary goal-- functional fitness. While I promise to spend some time writing about functional fitness (its a fascinating topic), Crossfit sums up the goal of functional fitness as being able to "move large loads over long distances quickly." Under that overarching goal and objective, some workouts stand out as particularly noteworthy, and many fall under one of 2 noteworthy groups-- "Hero Workouts" and "The Girls." Hero workouts are named for people who were killed in the line of duty, either in Iraq or Afghanistan or even a few in service back here in the US for the police, etc. The Girls are workouts that are named for the many notable women that have been influential in the creation of Crossfit over the many years. People typically use The Girls as benchmarks ("whats your Fran time?") and the Hero Workouts as rally points where you know you are going to have to put it all out there to get through.

This weekend, my Crossfit affiliate took on Murph, a Hero Workout named in honor of Lieutenant Michael P. Murphy of Patchogue, NY who was killed in Afghanistan in June 2005. Murph, as he was known to his fellow Seals, received several honors including the Purple Heart and the Medal of Honor for his service and the story of his death is an amazing one. One of his favorite workouts, that he called "Body Armor" became one of the most popular Crossfit workouts to date, and is one that most affiliates do at least annually, if not twice in a year. Murph apparently did this workout wearing his 20lbs of body armor, thus giving it the name he used until it was memorialized by a crossfit workout in his honor in August 2005.

Murph consists of a 1 mile run, 100 pull-ups, 200 push-ups, 300 squats and another 1 mile run. Many people do it wearing a weight vest of 20 lbs. This past weekend, I got my first taste of Murph.

As with any high-rep pull-up workout, you expect your hands will rip open. Callouses are one thing we get used to, but high rep pull up workouts inevitably mean your callouses will tear off. I had this happen to me several weeks ago, right in the very center of my hand and boy did it hurt (I included a fun pic I took after cleaning it all up a little, just so you can see what I mean). I discovered since the wonders of gymnastics grips and managed to spare my hands this weekend, but I was in a very small minority. This weekend we bled.

As this was my first time taking on Murph, I opted to do a half-Murph, dropping the volume of all the requirements by half. I ran 1/2 a mile, did 50 pull ups, 100 push ups, 150 squats, ran a half a mile. It took me 29:52 to complete. It was an ass kicker. I reached a point several weeks ago that I no longer need assistance for pull-ups, but this high a volume I went for the slightest bit of support (a long white rubberband) that would offset just a little of my weight. In order to make it more challenging and to compensate for that rubberband, I worked my pull-ups to the Chest-to-Bar standard, instead of the Chin-to-Bar that is acceptable in this kind of volume. The rest was as strict as it comes... it took me a long time to be able to manage chest-to-deck strict push-ups at that volume, but I did well with it and in the end, I am really pleased with my time.

It was amazing to watch some of the activity around this workout. The box (what we call affiliates) was buzzing with excitement for this WOD and in the end we had 36 total competitors for the event. One of our strongest competitors did it with the weight vest and finished the whole thing in 45:45. It was awe inspiring. And an ass kicker.

A workout like this needs a strategy. Turns out that the 3 middle components (the pull-ups, push-ups and squats) did not need to be done in sequential order, so I decided to shoot for 10 rounds of 5 pull-ups, 10 push-ups and 15 squats. This would allow me to let each component rest for a little while without slowing me down. I never thought I'd live for the squats, but those to me were my saving grace-- if there's one thing I have in spades, its leg strength, so doing 15 squats, while strenuous, was nothing in comparison to the push-ups. The runs felt awesome-- I think I made most of my time up in those runs, despite being very measured in my approach to them-- I didn't go out full throttle on the first run which I think caused a lot of people to gas out in the rest of the workout. In general I felt like I kept a nice consistent pace throughout the whole thing and wound up getting one of the better half Murph times.

I am looking forward to the next time we take on Murph being able to do it as prescribed (as RXed, in Crossfit lingo), but in the meantime, I gotta say, Murph is gonna be a special workout for me for a long time.

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The "Paleo" Diet Primer

I've mentioned a pretty dramatic shift in the way that I eat, and now the time is right to go into all the explaining of that. But first... I thought I'd open with a fun little video that will make my life a little easier.


A lot of the concepts in there aren't new-- I've mentioned them here before, but now we'll get a little (wait for the caveman humor...) meat on the bones of the topic.

The Paleo diet-- I often like to start describing this as what I don't eat and then building it back up from there. SO... my list of Don't Eats:
- Dairy
- Grains
- Legumes
- Processed Foods

It's a short list, right? But that short list includes a lot of the typical American fare, so I'll break it out a little more. I don't eat bread, pasta, milk, yogurt, cereals, tofu, peanuts and beans. I don't eat things that start or end life in a box.

If you've known me over the past 20-something years you will recognize how very fundamental that shift is for me. When I took this challenge on in November, I did so knowing that my eating stood to be a lot healthier. In August I made the first fundamental shift in that-- I gave up being a vegetarian-- something I had been for most of my adult life. In November I took up the remainder of that shift-- away from all the grains and dairy I had lived on for most of my life. I was one of those vegetarians that described myself as a "dairy-tarian" or a "grain-atarian." I wasn't too big on green things much less things with mothers and faces. So this was a very big shift for me-- I was literally giving up everything I had spent 35 years eating.

Now what is in the Paleo diet.
- Naturally produced meat (grass fed cows, pastured chickens, wild-caught fish)
- Vegetables
- Fruit
- Nuts
- Fat (yep... it's not a bad word when its the right kind of fat.)

I've talked evolution before, and the video certainly spoke to it, but these are the kinds of things our bodies evolved to eat-- provided we, to put it in the words of Joel Salatin, "respect and honor the pigness of the pig" or any other living thing we take into our bodies. The meat I buy at the local supermarket bears no resemblance to the meat we all evolved to eat and as a result the nutritional content of that meat is radically different. When you hear the "dangers of eating red meat" it is most often tied to the effects of the production of our meat. By respecting and honoring the cowness of the cow and eating grassfed beef, those dangers seem to disappear. The same holds true for chicken and fish. If the chicken can live its life like it evolved to live it, it will grow up healthy and therefore make the people who evolved to eat it healthy. We'll talk more on this topic later-- remember, rabbit hole. We'll also talk more about fat, but in the meantime, let's talk about how this shift went and why I went this way.

For starters, I don't do anything without reading and learning alot. Before I took on the idea of the paleo shift, I had a lot of questions that needed answering. My biggest concern, as a woman in her 30s, was around removing dairy and whether I would be affecting my calcium stores at a time when I needed it most. And I was also concerned that there may be other vitamins I was going to be losing as well-- what would this mean to my overall well being? So I started to read.

If you look at the statistics for Osteoporosis, you'll see something kind of interesting. North America and Europe have the highest rates of osteoporosis in the world, with North America running right in there. When you look at consumption of dairy on a global scale you notice something similar-- Europe and North America account for the highest amounts of dairy consumption. Doesn't it seem strange that the people eating the most dairy are the ones that have the worst osteoporosis?!

As it turns out the typical western diet is highly acidic with all those grains going on. As a result, during digestion, the kidneys are recruited to help balance the acid/alkaline levels (remember that homeostasis thing I talked about). Calcium salt in the body is one of the best alkaline sources there are, so as the body acidifies, that calcium is recruited to restore the balance. Which basically means that even though we are taking in copious amounts of calcium, it's being used for other things than making bones stronger. Sure calcium does that but only when it's not being used first. Milk itself is ever-so-slightly acidic. If you think of 7.0 as acid/alkaline neutral and anything below 7 is acidic and above 7 is alkaline, milk is a 6.7, which is likely helped by the calcium content of it. But when the rest of the diet is highly acidic that calcium is always being used. The chief sources of alkaline are... vegetables! So the more vegetables you eat, the more alkaline your blood. The more alkaline your blood, the more your body can store additional alkaline agents like calcium and therefore the stronger your bones will get. But the typical western diet is so highly acidic that it actually leaches the calcium from your bones themselves and makes westerners among the most prone to osteoporosis.

And what about fiber? The supermarket shelves are loaded with grain-based products promoting themselves as "high fiber" like Fiber One cereal, breads, etc. And with the recent push for whole grains, everyone is eating whole wheat everything... whole wheat pasta to whole wheat pizza dough-- it is everywhere. So it turns out there are 2 kinds of fiber-- soluble and insoluble. Soluble fibers can break down, mix with water and help lower that bad LDL cholesterol that I told you a few days ago builds up in your arteries in case you spring a leak and keep your heart warm through the cold months of fall, winter and spring. Insoluble fibers, on the other hand, cannot be broken down, and provide bulk, but pass through the digestive system largely unprocessed. These are the things you eat to feel full, but because your body cannot break them down, they cannot pull nutrients out of them. Soluble fibers are found in things like vegetables, citrus fruits, oat and rye, strawberries, beans and peas, and apple pulp. Insoluble fiber is found in things like whole-wheat breads, wheat cereals, wheat bran, cabbage, beets, carrots, brussels sprouts, turnips, cauliflower, and apple skin. So while you are correct in the observation that both grains and vegetables cross those lines, adding in the acidification aspect makes things a little more clear. I can eat insoluble vegetables without upping my blood acidity-- I can get the calories and the bulk without the negative consequence. But I can't eat the grains and beans that are soluble without making my blood more acid. As a result, The veggies and fruits come out on top for fiber and the grains aren't giving me a net positive (yes, oats may help with the LDL cholesterol, but they offset the alkalinity).

I went into my Paleo shift in early November after requesting my doctor do a full blood panel on me. We recorded my cholesterol levels, my calcium levels, my triglycerides... all of that. My goal was a month or two of paleo, because it seemed awfully restrictive at first glance, and then we'd look at my blood results again and see how things shook out. My first week, I will confess, was awful. My first 3 days I felt openly hostile and the following few days I felt insatiable-- I wanted to eat everything around. Eventually things began to quiet and I got used to how to eat-- including how to eat without cooking all the time. It was definitely a lifestyle change for me-- I needed to figure out paleo convenience, which becomes a little more challenging. I'll get into more of that later, but eventually something unsual happened. I felt awesome. I felt better than I had ever felt before. And I stopped resisting the diet and feeling like I was being deprived and no longer craved grains and dairy. And then came Thanksgiving.

It's hard to hold Paleo over Thanksgiving, and truth be told, I gave myself the day as a cheat day with no cause for concern. The next 3 days, however, I felt awful-- I felt weak and heavy and bloated and just kinda bummed out. I don't think I ever appreciated the food-mood connection until post Thanksgiving. And since then I have not looked back. As for the blood work, I decided to wait until the one year mark to see how it all shakes out. In general, I live by the 80-20 rule and every now and again don't say no to a big piece of chocolate cake, but I gotta say, I've given myself a few outs that just lacked appeal when it all came down to it. I remember one night in particular when I was too tired to make dinner and gave myself permission to have some pizza. I really thought this would excite me, but it just didn't. And in the end, I went home and quickly cooked up a salmon filet and made a salad and was quite happy and content with myself. It was a day I never expected to see.

I am entering into my 7th month of this diet now, and I have to tell you, I will be eating this way for the rest of my life-- no question about it. I feel energized all the time. And dare I say it, I feel happier. I've gone from vegetarian to cave-dweller-- my diet could not be more night and day from where it was a year ago. It has given me lots of interesting thoughts on the topic of vegetarianism that I will share with you another day. I believe my diet has largely accounted for the dramatic shift in body composition I blogged about recently. I look and feel a lot better and for the first time in my life, I am developing muscles, which is not easy for a relative ectomorph. In a couple more months we will see what the blood work shows once and for all, but back to the very question that opened this chapter 2 blog... Am I Healthy?? The answer comes back a lot more firmly in the yes category with this new shift in eating.

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