11 Jun Food for thought…
Since 1976 obesity rates have tripled. We need to question the information we are being given about the food we eat…
- We are told fat makes you fat. If you consider that every cell in your body is wrapped in fat. Your brain is mostly fat. Your hormones are built from fat. Yet they told you that fat is making you sick and convinced you to swap it for low-fat foods loaded with sugar. When fat intake fell, obesity and diabetes exploded. The real danger was never fat.
- Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. For most of human history, breakfast did not exist. People rose with the sun, worked, hunted, and ate when food was available, often not until midday or evening. Then you were convinced that skipped cereal would wreck your health. The real danger is not skipping breakfast; it was nonstop eating. I find that once I start eating, I want to eat more.
- We were told that salt raises blood pressure and has adverse effects on the heart and were convinced to eliminate it from your diet. Meanwhile, populations eating high-salt diets for centuries had low hypertension rates. Then processed food and sugar entered the picture! Everything changed. The real danger was never salt; it was mineral deficiency. While you feared salt, they pushed sugar, seed oils, and processed junk, the actual drivers of heart disease. The salt scare was not protection, it was misdirection.
- Another diktat was red meat causes cancer. They combined grass-fed steak in with hot dogs and deli slices, then told you it would shave years off your life. Humans thrived on meat for thousands of years. Long before obesity, diabetes and heart disease, we ate meat every day. The real danger was never meat; it was the highly processed junk that replaced it.
