Diet and Optimal Health (part 3)

Antioxidants. Phytonutrients. Anthrocyanins. Lycopenes. Omega 3's & 6's. Fats, proteins, & carbohydrates.

My goodness. How on earth did humanity survive for thousands of years without knowing any of this?

Americans are more overweight and less healthy than ever before, despite the mountains of advice.

Quick, nobody eat fat! It's all the fault of fat. Fat will kill you.
Oops, guess we were wrong. It's really the carbs. Eat all the fat & protein you like, just don't eat the carbs.

Look at the first line of this blog. How many people know or care about what an antioxidant actually is, how it works, what it does, why we need them and how many to get? It's become another marketing ploy and one that doesn't even particularly make sense to the folks who are just trying to buy food.

Among other things, the human body is a wondrously complex chemical factory that is dancing with an impossibly complex set of variables from its environment. And more so, each human body is unique in its genetic makeup and in the environmental pressures brought to bear on it. Nobody can take all of this into account when writing a diet book. And as far as I can tell, there isn't anyone out there who has "the answer."

In fact, the idea of "the dietary answer" is only an idea. Nothing more. And all that those kind of ideas do is make us lazy.
Those kind of ideas allow us to not pay attention to what we are doing in any a given moment because we now have preprogrammed responses.

The less attention we want to pay to our lives, the more we need rules to avoid catastrophe.
But why wouldn't we want to pay attention to our own lives?
In the end it's all we've got.

So let's ignore the "experts" who tell us about all of the wonderful chemicals we can ingest to fix all our problems and let's start paying attention to what we put in our body.

Next blog: "The answers" you have been waiting for!

Be well,
Siddatech R&D