What is the Whole30?

Generally, I can't stand the latest "vogue" diet but. Things like the Potato Diet, the Alkaline Diet, the Cookie Diet, The Master Cleanse Diet, or the myriad of other oddball diets that try to get you to eat anything but real, unprocessed foods.

However, this natural skepticism of "fad" like diets got thrown out the window when The Whole30 started to catch on as one of the latest "trends." Granted, I find it rather sad to call eating whole, unprocessed foods in their natural state a "fad" makes our current food culture rather sad. Admittedly, a lot of people feel Paleo is a fad diet, but it is a fad that is as old as humanity.

I have to say I stand wholeheartedly behind The Whole30 Which is a 30-day dietary rest. As most of you know, I am a proponent of a Modern Paleo (Ancestral type) approach to diet, which is pretty close to what the whole30 purports.

When a patient comes into the office, I am pretty adamant that they change their diet and that the first month is the key  So, The ...

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