Natural Revolution Empowering Natural Living
Right now, one half of all Americans are on a diet. The other half just gave up on their diets and are on a binge. Collectively, we are overweight, sick and struggling. Our modern choices about what and how much to eat have gone terribly wrong. The time has come to return to a more sensible way of eating and living, but which way?
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One group of self-help books suggests we give up carbohydrates, another that we give up fats, another still that we lay off the protein. Or maybe we should just eat the way our ancestors did.
A new class of very popular self-help book, “health books”, recommend a return to the diets of our ancestors. Paleolithic diets, caveman diets, primal diets and the like, urge us to remember the good ole days. Taken too literally, such diets are ridiculous. After all, like all wild species, sometimes our ancestors starved to death and the starving to death diet, well, it ends badly.
The past was no panacea; each generation we made due with the bodies and foods available, imperfect bodies and imperfect foods. But let’s pretend, for the sake of argument, that it would be a good idea to eat like our ancestors ate. Just what did they eat?
The New Food Pyramid exemplifies a much broader approach to more healthier foods, and less so, the trans-fats and high fat saturated foods such as meat and dairy. Just like with anything, you have a choice of what foods you want to consume, and the quality of life that it reaps from eating well. Living to a ripe old age, well, it’s no fun when you have to visit doctors on the advise a person doesn’t take early in their life, which very well could have saved a trip to the heart surgeon office. Isn’t it ‘quality’ over ‘quantity’ of life that is most important?
Although digging into Twinkies and a slab of pork rinds or a thick honking piece of pot roast, might just be what’s for dinner for some, but for others, they might want to take a healthier approach.
