Ásatrú and Paleo: A Return to Health
This article was my first on the subject of Ásatrú. It was written back in February of 2016. Since that time it has had a few edits and minor changes. I thank my friends who deemed it worthy of posting to their blog or in their newsletter. It represents my thinking while taking my initial steps along the path of Ásatrú. The article highlights how I considered my journey as critical for a return to spiritual health after years of eating unhealthy "foods." Today I am reminded that Jesus is quoted as having said, "I am the bread of life." That quote takes on an entirely new meaning in the context of this essay. ********* While fad diets come and go one recent one that seems to have some real staying power is the Paleo Diet. The basic idea of the diet is that you can lose weight and become healthier by eating the foods that our bodies were “designed to eat.”[1] Essentially the diet is based on what we know of the diet of our hunter-gatherer ancestors who lived some...