somuch4food
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I think that what got us to this level of chronic health problems is a combination of a hedonistic approach to food and bad dietary advice from authorities.
First, if food is looked at only from a pleasure perspective you can miss a lot of feedback from your body. Nowadays, most people base their liking of a food on how it feels in the mouth and the immediate pleasure triggered in the brain, but little attention is given to how your body feels a few hours after a meal. For example, while I enjoy eating a poutine, I feel so heavy and slow afterwards that I recognize it shouldn't be a staple.
This hedonistic approach was born in wealthy circles that could afford such things as sugar and cakes in the 1800s.
To make matters worse, authorities are propagating general dietary recommendations to everyone assuming that what is good for some is good for all, or what is needed for some won't hurt others. Those recommendations further disconnect people from their bodies because they trust that authorities know what they are doing and happily defer any responsibility.
Add to that epigenetics and you get our current situation that has been going downwards for some time now, but we found alternative ways like hygiene and medication to temporary alleviate our problems and increase lifespan.
First, if food is looked at only from a pleasure perspective you can miss a lot of feedback from your body. Nowadays, most people base their liking of a food on how it feels in the mouth and the immediate pleasure triggered in the brain, but little attention is given to how your body feels a few hours after a meal. For example, while I enjoy eating a poutine, I feel so heavy and slow afterwards that I recognize it shouldn't be a staple.
This hedonistic approach was born in wealthy circles that could afford such things as sugar and cakes in the 1800s.
To make matters worse, authorities are propagating general dietary recommendations to everyone assuming that what is good for some is good for all, or what is needed for some won't hurt others. Those recommendations further disconnect people from their bodies because they trust that authorities know what they are doing and happily defer any responsibility.
Add to that epigenetics and you get our current situation that has been going downwards for some time now, but we found alternative ways like hygiene and medication to temporary alleviate our problems and increase lifespan.