Dining Out!

Where to eat in Victoria.

When you are concerned about your health one of the first things you may decide to do is stop eating out at restaurants.  This is a great idea, especially if the places you frequent don't offer food that provides proper nourishment for your body.  But with today's busy lifestyle it is sometimes necessary to eat out, and, of course there are always the social obligations.  So go out and enjoy.  But have a plan.

It boils down to criteria.  If you want to be ULTRA healthy in your choice consider finding a Raw Food restaurant such as Cafe Bliss.  Raw food contains all its own enzymes for digestion so your body doesn't have to produce any.  Your  body gets to keep all of the energy from the food.

Vegan is the next best option.  Green Cuisine is a great place for a casual meal.  Vegan means the food contains no animal products.  Animal protein is a dirty fuel for your body.  When your body digests it it is left with waste that the liver and kidneys must eliminate.  Vegetable protein is a clean fuel.  Your body uses it all with no waste to process.

Vegetarian is a great option but I suggest staying away from dairy products.  Dairy (milk, cheese, yogurt, cream cheese, sour cream, etc) isn't as good for you as the industry would have you believe.  Yes, it contains calcium but your body never sees it.  In fact, for your body to process the protein in milk it actually needs more calcium than is in the milk and leaches calcium from your body to do this.  The result?  A net loss of calcium.  Rebar is a great vegetarian restaurant.

Organic and local are always great bets.  Organic means that you are not putting harmful pesticides into your body and you are helping the Earth at the same time.  Likewise with eating local.  Less pollution and fresher produce.  It is so easy to eat local year round in Victoria.  The Heron Rock Bistro is well known for its fresh, local, and organic ingredients.

On the subject of organic, that is the ONLY type of animal protein you should eat.  Do you know where your cow has been?  In this day and age we are not consuming Bessy the cow from down the road who ate sweet clover all her life.  Instead, hamburgers are made up of hundreds of cows full of antibiotics and hormones.  Yuck!  The Pink Bicycle is an amazing gourmet burger joint serving several organic burgers!

Check back tomorrow for a bigger list, including "fast food" joints!