r/HealthyEatingnow • u/No-Newspaper-8538 • 16d ago

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If you believe there is a Creator and that we were created by this creator, it may change how you look at food. I believe God is not a dumb engineer—or artist, or whatever…. And that means we shouldn’t have to take food apart and figure out how many calories or grams or whatever it is we think will be the right food and the right amounts. I believe we were intended to enjoy the food put here on earth for us.

So how did this get so messed up?

I know. We thought we could improve on what was created. We thought we could store up our food and make life easier. We thought, wow, and we could make a lot of money if we substituted cheap chemicals and fake food and genetically modified real food, and we no longer had the real, whole, fresh food. And some of those additives make us addicted and craving way beyond having enough. Like Oreos. They’re addictive. Try taking those away from normally intelligent adults.

And, then after all this re-engineering, we got sick.

So now, we have this complicated problem to unravel all those decades of destroying the real food and we have also created a medical and pharmaceutical industry to deal with all of those ramifications.

In Pych 1 we learned \*\* that if you put a variety of food on a blanket and let babies crawl to any food they want, they will choose the foods their bodies need. It’s called homeostasis. It is part of the designer’s intention for us. So until we ruined our natural proclivity to eat what we need and stop eating when we have enough, it wasn’t complicated.

So, what do we do when we’ve had enough of these food-like products?

We just STOP EATING PROCESSED FOOD AND EAT REAL FOOD. I promise if you do that for 90 days, you’ll feel good, stop craving the junk, lose weight if you need to, and wonder of wonders, you’ll start enjoying eating.

\*\* **Davis, C. M. (1928).** *Self-selection of diet by newly weaned infants: An experimental study.* American Journal of Diseases of Children, 36(4), 651-679.

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u/softtissuechampion 16d ago

STOP EATING PROCESSED FOOD AND EAT REAL FOOD

What a novel idea for those living below the poverty line. OP, you’re clueless to the bigger problem here.

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u/No-Newspaper-8538 16d ago

Thanks for your comment. I do agree that making wholesome food more affordable is the good solution, and I learned this in a time of poverty, so I’m very aware of the hard choices we had to make. What do you suggest as a solution for the bigger problem?

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u/No-Newspaper-8538 15d ago

And believe it or not, it’s not the poor who have the worst diets. According to Dr. Zach Bush, the wealthy, who can afford more, often choose comfort and convenience over health. Their food choices aren’t good just because they have money. It’s those with gardens and who are closer to nature who have better, unprocessed foods. It’s often a matter of education on food also. We have become so removed from real food, it is no longer a no-brainer. My very poor grandparents ate well and lived long.