Living Below the Line - When Food Becomes Medicine

Yesterday was a really good day. My body, for the most part, has adjusted to the Live Below the Line challenge and both my mood and my strength were high pretty much all the way through what was for me the first day of the workweek. It was also a very beautiful warm spring day of a season that has been very chilly and rainy so far. I wanted to garden! I wanted to go for a run! Unfortunately, though, by the time I got home from work my strength was quickly waning and I just didnāt think that my rice and lentils would provide me enough fuel for such activity. I know, I know, thatās highly debatable, and nutritionists and strict vegetarians alike might decry what I did nextā¦ I used some of my ābankedā money to buy a tin of tuna fish and a slice of bread. I prepared a dinner of half a tuna sandwich and I was good to go. We donāt usually ponder such things, do we? We eat what we want when we want it. We feel entitled to whatever fuel of whate...