Camping with Kids on The Body Ecology Diet
Tara Carpenter, NC.
Originally published on June 3, 2010
Holistic nutrition for people on The Body Ecology Diet (B.E.D.).
I wasn’t planning to camp this summer. My plate is full enough with work, graduate school, moving through a divorce, and raising my boys who are 2 and 7 years old. Most days, I can barely see straight! Yet, I find the flow and direction of life tends to take a turn for what is best for the whole in times of overload. So, when I woke one morning to hear a quiet voice inside me say “take the kids camping by the ocean”, I said yes.
Traveling – whether by car, plane or train – can interfere with our digestive system working well. Most of the stress we encounter when traveling is beforehand with the organizing and packing and getting out the door. We in a flurry for our trip and then we sit for long periods as we are whisked away at unnatural speeds ….
I recently returned from a trip to my sister’s home on the coast of MA. I drove 6 hours each way, and was away for 10 days. In all of those days and nights I did not have one belly-ache. Not even the slightest dull ache. In the past, the