In the modern era, plant foods are considered de facto healthy—containing nothing but nutrients. But is this really true?

Health is not simply an absence of symptoms or disease. And yet, Western healthcare is fixated upon this idea. If we’ve learned anything over the past 100 years, it’s that health cannot be understood—or meaningfully created—by studying disease alone.

Few cultures now prepare food as it ought to be prepared. This is critical information, because in order to render our food safe to eat, more digestible, more nutritious and most delicious, we need to prepare it properly—like our ancestors did.