I suspect the explanation bad diet has been so simple to pull on our society is that it’s a bit a devious process. Actually there’s been a societal trend toward foods that aren’t healthy. Cheetos for instance, never happen in nature and can in no way be simply processed from natural resources. However I suspect what’s truly just coming around to the average public, definitely not the health and lifting conscious, but the average Joe, is that the food you usually consider natural and healthy are now not that either.
People living in the area that I am living in up till probably 40 years ago ate a very standard Southern rural diet. That suggests a lot of fat, lots of starch, and actually also a rather good quantity of protein considering they all produced their own beef. Yet they were never experiencing for the most part the health illnesses that we associate with bad food. Diabetes, heart problems, etc, and most of them were living into their 80′s and 90′s. Why is that possible?
They were active their entire lives. Essentially physically doing some work. Perhaps not what we would consider exercise, like the kettlebell swings I really like to do, but significant amounts of physical work.
They were eating for a large part, foods processed as closely as practical to their natural state and without chemical additives. Mashed potatoes were made from real potatoes, not out of a box. Beef did not have fillers and hormone injections. Oils weren’t fiddled with to make them cheaper and last longer. Vegetables actually had vitamins in them.
Although many of those folks won’t be considered by the Hollywood standard thin and pretty, they were vital and healthy. We want to move back to this type of nourishment for our youngsters and ourselves. Everyone talks about this macronutrient or this micronutrient being either the killer or the answer to everything in existence. “Cut this out and you’ll lose weight,” “Add this and you will get healthy.” Much of it opposed and totally mystifying.
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