What’s up guys? Welcome back to another Conrad’s Food Blog post! Today I will be giving y’all a bonus post, in which I will be explaining what the Ital diet is. So I am doing this because my dad was starting this diet and I was interested in what it involved so today I will be sharing some information with you about it.

So the Ital diet is a diet which Rastafarians (some Jamaicans) do because they have some restrictions caused by their beliefs. They are usually vegetarian and eat food which is as natural as possible. That means they avoid processed and chemically modified foods. They are only allowed to eat fish which have scales and are under twelve inches long. They don’t eat most other seafood. Some of them don’t drink coffee or alcohol or smoke cigarettes. Rastafari believe that you can have some alcohol, but not so much that your vision blurs because that means that you are reducing your livity. Livity is kind of like a human’s energy or life source which is given to every human being from Jah (their god).

Arguably the most famous Rastafarian ever – Bob Marley – followed the Ital diet! He had a cook named Gilly who followed him to concerts and cooked Ital food for him. He made many things for Marley, for example Ital stew which is usually made with cauliflower, carrots, potatoes, cabbage, brown gungo peas and butter beans. Gilly also made juices for Bob. One of Marley’s favorites, though, was made of seaweed, condensed milk and cinnamon! Anyway thanks for reading. I hope you enjoyed this post! I find Rastafari and the Ital diet really interesting so it was really fun to research this topic. Below are a few not-so-random Emojis which are related to my post in some way. Jah Rastafari!

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