I’m not getting to focus on any particular story in the news this week, as after reading the headlines, I felt quite depressed. As you can see from my writing on the blog, one of my favourite topics is food, and so reading about the latest food to be bad for us, or the new ’super food’, always catches my attention, but seldom offers me any enlightenment to what we should be eating as humans for good health.
When we look around the animal kingdom, where man has left it alone, each species knows what it must eat, and when it is in good supply they are free from the disease that afflicts the human race (especially in industrialised nations).
So why as 21st century humans do we know have no idea what food is going to give us good health?
I have written lots on this blog about our unique individual metabolisms that require different foods, and the choice of organic local food, but what Iwould like to share with you is something quite fundamental.
I believe that we have been duped by a false sense of security, that we as humans can exploit and control nature for our sole benefit. We have become used to instant gratification, be it from the TV channel we watch, fast internet connection, or fast food, and this comes at the expense of nature.
We have forgotten that we are part of nature and we are only exploiting ourselves. We know have a huge choice of food available all year round, a huge array of diet foods, new food additives preservatives, we can harvest and store huge amounts of food and make it last for longer, produce meat more quickly.
Despite these apparent huge leaps forward in choice and quantity of food, we are suffering with a plethora of disease, that never afflicted indigenous tribes, who ate only whole food available in their environment.
In my opinion, what we need is to take responsibility for ourselves, question critically what food, and drug companies want to sell us, and the latest piece of conflicting advice, and don’t eat anything that you don’t understand the ingredients of!
good sermon