Eating Well
“Let your food be your medicine and your medicine your food”
Hippocrates
What should we eat? This is one of the most asked questions of our lives. Humans are the only species on earth that has changed our fundamental diet away from what we as humans genetically require.
The foods that we eat are normally divided into four groups consisting of grains, meat and fish, vegetables and fruit, and dairy. A so called healthy diet consists of three meals per day with something from each group. Our pre-agriculture, Hunter & Gatherers, Paleolithic ancestors derived all of their nutrients from meat and fish, and vegetables and fruit. They apparently consumed grains rarely, if at all, and they had no dairy. They also did not suffer from the chronic illnesses that we are currently suffering from today in record numbers.
We have come to believe that we are somehow immune to the natural laws that every other animal species are governed by. Why do you think that when we take animals away from their natural habitat and put them in captivity with modernized foods that they start to develop sicknesses and diseases?
We have come to see ourselves as something other than natural animals and this belief has critical consequences on our health. We feed things to our children that we wouldn’t even feed to our pets!
Every year the Typical American eats:
- 756 pounds of Cakes & Cookies
- 365 servings of Soda
- 200 sticks Gum
- 134 pounds of Refined Sugar
- 23 gallons of Ice Cream
- 22 pounds of Candy
- 7 pounds of Potato Chips
When we get sick we want to blame our genes or just say it’s just my luck. We don’t want to take responsibility for our lifestyle choices and how everything we put in has to be processed by the body. Everything we eat affects our cell function and determines if you express health or sickness.
The current epidemic of chronic illness and suffering from cancer, diabetes, heart disease, stroke, obesity, depression, fatigue, etc. is directly related to stress on our bodies from our dietary and lifestyle choices and environmental exposures.
The two most important nutritional questions are:
- What nutritional choices are sufficient and pure and result in the expression of health and vitality?
- What nutritional choices are deficient and toxic and cause the expression of illness and suffering?
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