Regardless of who you recognize as your Higher Power you must believe they intend to provide the necessary food for survival and health.
Currently, if I took suggestions and believed everything I hear and read about food this picture is what the table would look like.
My thoughts are we have taken the whole food analysis too far. Should have stopped with identifying the four food groups and recommending three meals a day. But no, we've delved in and spent untold number of dollars studying each food down to the roots. (pun intended)
Now we have all this information which is then interpreted and twisted by medical professionals and government agencies and probably pharmaceutical companies. They have all of us to toy with. And we play along. They lead us by the nose influencing our choices, causing us to question and change our diets and eating habits, join the newest food fads, and to extreme, deny ourselves based on information they selectively bombard us with. Otherwise known as shoved down our throat, force feed, etc....and we eat it up.
My point being that why would any Higher Power bless us with nature full of supplements, bless us with intelligence to identify them, harvest, reap and preserve them, prepare them then say oops, sorry, just fooling, these are bad for you. Such as salt, eggs, sugar, meat.....
Granted, what we do to the food doesn't help, I understand. Again, that is us wanting prepared, ready to go eats. Lifestyles do not lend to freshly grown, homecooked meals one at a time. We alter the natural food to accommodate. Much of which can deplete the nutrients in the food or uses man made additives. Obviously defeats the purpose. Preserve what isn't good for us.
Such circles and turmoil.
And as the food studies are cranked out we just continually jump on for the ride. We have been taught fruits are important but all of a sudden pomegranate and pistachios are 'in'. Advertising and promotimg the crap out of them. They've been here forever but now they have been singled out and promoted like they have special powers. Drives the price up. Studies and current health food binges control restaurant menus. Even for those of us who don't join in.
On the flip side don't touch gluten. Wheat flour and trans fat should have a skull and crossbone on them.
And when did the chicken breast become the only politically correct part of a chicken to eat? Which then leads to the controversy in how the chickens are raised. And so on.
But again, if we hadn't analyzed our food and made it a science, we wouldn't know about gluten.
My theory is basically a final determination after taking the following points into consideration.
• There is a natural food chain.
• Humans just happen to be at the top
• Human intelligence makes us the only ones to question the food available to us. Animals eat what has been provided without hesitation.
• The average life span is continually increasing.
• If we didn't want to live forever, the long term effects of what we eat would be less important.
• I have seen several cycles of food studies in my lifetime and eggs and coffee have been good and bad 3 times already! Am I really going to believe the next one.
• Amazingly chocolate and wine, in moderation, are now good for you.
• Lifestyles affect the effect of food on us.
• If we didn't strive to outlive every previous generation we wouldn't suffer so many ill effects. In 1900 the average life expectancy for a male was 46 and female 48. In 2017 male was 76 and female 81.
• Yes, if eaten unchecked some things can harm you so we shouldn't ignore all the facts.
• We could makes choices, eat what has been made available and live out however long our natural intended life is,be it 46 or 81 years. Study, stress and make eating a chore and live as long as we can stretch it and hope our study, stress and time payoff with good health.
I have no issue at all with personal preferences, personal tastes, personal beliefs. Unfortunately, like in many other areas, how and where do you get information to make personal choices?
Sorry, but it all comes down to the simple, ever so often true mantra, Everything in Moderation.
We were given the intelligence to identify, learn to harvest, reap and nurture food sources yet continually over indulge in research and 'studies' typically resulting in conflicting data. Why? Because we have all this technology to make use of and resources with nothing more important to study. AND I have deducted food studies are a farce cause we keep doing it over and over.
After a disasterous trip to the grocery armed with budget, list, current tips ( the good, the bad and the trendy), coupons, store ad and handy store discount card...I found pistschios at $11.49 per 20 oz bag.
Having checked some sites prior to shopping I realized pomegranates were pricey. Ready to eat seeds or bottled juices are expensive but so is the natural fruit itself. Although our local prices were lower than what I had found they were still quite a bit locally as well. Marked them off.
Confused, after eliminating 90% of my list based on contents alone I had a thought. Why not just eat what I want? Eat what is thankfully provided to us, trust if isn't poisonous it cant be that bad. Treat treats like treats.