I try to eat a healthy diet

avoiding fatty foods and sodium

looking for high fibre and lean protein

I have my favorite superfoods

essential for my breakfast shake daily

I make kefir which is a kind of yogurt

its packed with probiotics and keeps your gut healthy

I also put chia seeds in my shake, they are rich in minerals and fibre

science shows chia keeps your heart healthy with antioxidants and omega -3

I do not claim to be a nutritional expert

I certainly did not grow up eating these kinds of foods

I simply became more health conscious as I got older

or perhaps I just fell for the marketing hype of these products

backed up by the wealth of scientific data of course

one might think that these superfoods were a recent discovery

nothing could be further from the truth

Kefir has been around for thousands of years

traces were found in a 4,000 year old tomb in China

chia seeds were the staple diet of the Aztecs 

studies have shown they were consumed widely over 5,000 years ago

somewhere along the way chia faded away

only becoming popular again in the 1980’s

one has to look back and be amazed

its incredible that folks back then knew about these superfoods

without scientific data and certainly no marketing campaigns

even more intriguing is who first discovered them at all

kefir grains are living organisms but nobody knows their origin

how did these ancient people know where to find them for fermenting their milk

we think we are all super smart today

but ancient civilizations were pretty smart too

maybe even smarter than most of us today

because they figured things out all by themselves

without Google, Youtube or advertising campaigns