Post by Guru on Dec 16, 2022 20:25:05 GMT
Why You Need a Plant-Based Diet
Our ancestors had to get their meals a lot differently when it came to almost all of the food they put in their mouth. Their meals were not simply grabbed off a shelf, tossed into a cart and driven back to their home, heated on high for two minutes, then eaten.
The majority of their meat was hunted, killed, laboriously taken back home, prepared, then cooked, before they could even sit down to enjoy the first bite of their bounty. They ate a more plant-based diet, with absolutely no chemical additives and no added sugar.
Now, thanks mainly to the hundreds of thousands of unnecessary, pictorially delicious processed food items sitting on store shelves, diseases run rampant throughout most of the world. Most of our food is popped into a microwave oven and less than 10 minutes later, our meal is already cooked, eaten and the box is in the trash.
Even with all of our advances in technology, our medical discoveries and physical achievements, our lifespans are filled more and more with diseases and viruses that are mutating like never before. Our lifespans are getting shorter and the quality of senior health has declined only because our lifestyle choices create physical and mental epidemics seem to be far out of our collective control.
We see it advertised regularly; children and babies suffering from some form of cancer. It should not be our reality that our fresh, new babies are coming into the world with a fatal disease or condition. Too many children are allowed to become obese and remain obese, teens are out of shape and some of them will experience a heart attack before their 21st birthday.
So, what is wrong and is there a way to fix it?
If you take a look at countries who still farm their vegetables and hunt their meat, their health is not deteriorating as the generations pass and obesity is almost unheard of.
Their health issues are not the same as those in the West. Most health issues are usually the result of over‐consumption. The diseases presence in these less-developed countries are usually classified as a nutrition deficit, because of their way of life.
It wasn't until about 10,000 years ago, when our diets shifted, that our bodies began to turn, our health began to deteriorate and get bombarded with unheard-of illness. When people no longer had to spend hours or days hunting, gathering and preparing their every meal, the amount of natural exercise and exertion decreased drastically. This gradually led to a more sedentary lifestyle and gradual weight gain.
The Evolution of Diet, an article in The National Geographic, studies were done on the Mayan population that may be indicate exactly what happened to our health as a result of a shift in the foods we began to consume, the methods in which food was obtained and the type of damage done to our body when we do not get the required amount of daily exercise.
Diabetes was unheard before the 1950s in the Mayan population. But, after they shifted their diets towards a more Western that is loaded with sugar, additives and chemicals, the number diabetes cases spiked immediately.
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With advanced pre-tenderized, flash cooking methods, we consume our meat in a very digestible form, whereas our ancestors were eating additive-free, sometimes raw and/or minimally cooked food. It was probably rare to eat meat that was simmered until it was 'falling off the bone'.
Before we had the time to allow our protein to simmer for hours, the energy required by our bodies to break down the meat we was no longer needed and, in comparison to the amount of work our bodies used to have to do our digestive systems became sluggish and weak.
It does not matter how you look at it, it's quite obvious that what happened between then and now has not been a shift in a good direction. Instead of dying from sicknesses left untreated due to lack of medical care and resources, we're dying from lifestyle diseases we created - in the midst the most advanced medical technology we have ever known.
Perhaps the best we can do is to ensure that we are doing our part to eat and stay healthy in a fashion that is as close to our ancestors as possible.
Top photo from: quiziz
Bottom photo from: survivalpunk
Our ancestors had to get their meals a lot differently when it came to almost all of the food they put in their mouth. Their meals were not simply grabbed off a shelf, tossed into a cart and driven back to their home, heated on high for two minutes, then eaten.
The majority of their meat was hunted, killed, laboriously taken back home, prepared, then cooked, before they could even sit down to enjoy the first bite of their bounty. They ate a more plant-based diet, with absolutely no chemical additives and no added sugar.
Now, thanks mainly to the hundreds of thousands of unnecessary, pictorially delicious processed food items sitting on store shelves, diseases run rampant throughout most of the world. Most of our food is popped into a microwave oven and less than 10 minutes later, our meal is already cooked, eaten and the box is in the trash.
Even with all of our advances in technology, our medical discoveries and physical achievements, our lifespans are filled more and more with diseases and viruses that are mutating like never before. Our lifespans are getting shorter and the quality of senior health has declined only because our lifestyle choices create physical and mental epidemics seem to be far out of our collective control.
We see it advertised regularly; children and babies suffering from some form of cancer. It should not be our reality that our fresh, new babies are coming into the world with a fatal disease or condition. Too many children are allowed to become obese and remain obese, teens are out of shape and some of them will experience a heart attack before their 21st birthday.
So, what is wrong and is there a way to fix it?
If you take a look at countries who still farm their vegetables and hunt their meat, their health is not deteriorating as the generations pass and obesity is almost unheard of.
Their health issues are not the same as those in the West. Most health issues are usually the result of over‐consumption. The diseases presence in these less-developed countries are usually classified as a nutrition deficit, because of their way of life.
It wasn't until about 10,000 years ago, when our diets shifted, that our bodies began to turn, our health began to deteriorate and get bombarded with unheard-of illness. When people no longer had to spend hours or days hunting, gathering and preparing their every meal, the amount of natural exercise and exertion decreased drastically. This gradually led to a more sedentary lifestyle and gradual weight gain.
The Evolution of Diet, an article in The National Geographic, studies were done on the Mayan population that may be indicate exactly what happened to our health as a result of a shift in the foods we began to consume, the methods in which food was obtained and the type of damage done to our body when we do not get the required amount of daily exercise.
Diabetes was unheard before the 1950s in the Mayan population. But, after they shifted their diets towards a more Western that is loaded with sugar, additives and chemicals, the number diabetes cases spiked immediately.
,
With advanced pre-tenderized, flash cooking methods, we consume our meat in a very digestible form, whereas our ancestors were eating additive-free, sometimes raw and/or minimally cooked food. It was probably rare to eat meat that was simmered until it was 'falling off the bone'.
Before we had the time to allow our protein to simmer for hours, the energy required by our bodies to break down the meat we was no longer needed and, in comparison to the amount of work our bodies used to have to do our digestive systems became sluggish and weak.
It does not matter how you look at it, it's quite obvious that what happened between then and now has not been a shift in a good direction. Instead of dying from sicknesses left untreated due to lack of medical care and resources, we're dying from lifestyle diseases we created - in the midst the most advanced medical technology we have ever known.
Perhaps the best we can do is to ensure that we are doing our part to eat and stay healthy in a fashion that is as close to our ancestors as possible.
Top photo from: quiziz
Bottom photo from: survivalpunk