When it relates to nutrition, there are a million thoughts going through our heads about how, what, where, and when you eat. But often I do not think we are focusing on WHY we eat what we eat. If you begin to ponder this question, you can start on a journey to gaining a new perspective about you as a species, an animal, a social human living in and on a planet WITH other species, plant or animal. You can go deeper, and you may discover a lot about yourself, your biology, and your ancestral history.
Ask yourself, why did 'we' eat, what did 'we' eat, where did we eat, and most importantly how did we eat?
By re-framing these questions to include our history as a human and a species, we can see the ways in which we can change the way we look at ourselves as living beings. We can begin to avoid the classic conversations over eating, which blame only the conscious human for being emotionally or psychologically damaged. Instead we can have a more productive approach. We can begin to question our biology, and how our past adaptations to our natural environment actually influence us to a large degree. Then we can begin to also understand how our classic food store, laden with packaged foods, frozen and canned, and dry, has been manipulated to our biology. Large corporations enjoy large profits at our expense; they manipulate our food availability, as well as ingredients, therefore compromising our health and health concepts.
Most of us who have had issues with weight, diet, food choices, have also had some sort of psychological trauma or disturbance or addiction to fake food. Fake food for me has a long definition. To save you and me the time I will try to sum it up by explaining what I believe real food is. It was grown in or living on the ground, it was available to our ancestors in some version of its natural ancestral self, if our ancestors were alive today, they would know what to do with it ie cook, process, or eat it.
The agricultural industry as well as the packaged food industry, have literally transformed how our food actually tastes [both the real and the fake], therefore the way we think about food and what is acceptable for our bodies, and what it means to eat healthy. This has in turn given us a distorted view of food, its purpose, and its relationship to us.
So, I ask you to ponder these questions, do some research, THINK about food. Question what the word diet really means.
Consider yourself in a relationship with food. And also consider how food today connects you with people and animals living all over the world. Look at the power and control you have, and your role in eating, and the food choices you make. I know you have heard this before, but if you take this first step, and you begin to live and eat intentionally, you are on the road to a making a change that will last forever. That's because it’s a worldview change. It’s a change in your psyche where you realize that you, food, and your biological history are so deeply intertwined, and it takes only common sense to truly begin to change, not money.
