Welcome to The Healthy Catholic, a blog dedicated to nourishment of the body and the mind. The purpose of this blog is to promote what I consider to be two essential ingredients to a healthy and happy life: proper eating and the Catholic Faith. I am not certain that there is significant overlap in these two areas or that there will be many posts pertaining to both of these topics, but one could write volumes on each one individually. Who knows where the two might intersect?

First and foremost, I am a Catholic. Although I don't like the term because it divides what should be One Catholic Church, I am what is often referred to as a Traditional Catholic. I enjoy reading about the Church and Church history and I spend a good amount of time listening to lectures, sermons, and conferences on the Catholic Faith and living in today's world as a Catholic. These are a couple of topics that I plan on discussing in future posts.

My wife and I are also very much into healthy eating. To us, in short, this means buying as much food as possible at local farms and farm stands and avoiding processed foods as much as possible. We have slowly transitioned away from a typical American diet of processed foods, grains, and carbs and have recently adopted eating habits based on the Paleo Diet. We enjoy eating food that tastes good and makes you feel good.

Proper physical nourishment (of the body) is nearly as difficult to achieve as proper Catholic nourishment of the mind. We have to make conscientious efforts at both, and we have been taught to do neither. This is the ongoing story of our journey on these parallel paths.