Sunday Story...paleo vs. Paleo

It appears Paleo (capitals) has become main stream. Dieticians and nutritionists are lining up on one side of the fence or the other. Some are for it and some are against it. We see medical doctors recommending it and others adamantly opposed. And now the food companies are getting on board the train. They are substituting wheat flour for other flours and making gluten free foods, beginning to capitalize on this newest (?) “Diet craze.”

This is a better thing than before but it is not necessarily a good thing. The food companies have managed to screw up an entire generation or two’s eating habits. They have purposefully addicted people to salt and sugar, introducing both of those things into foods that never needed them. I learned to make spaghetti sauce from my mother who learned from my father’s Aunt Lena (I think). I don’t remember being told that the secret ingredient was sugar. There is a secret ingredient but it isn’t sugar.

Believe it or not the food companies have spent millions of dollars figuring out exactly what it is going to take to have you consume their products in copious quantities. They know exactly how many pounds per square inch of pressure to snap a chip will be the most satisfying in your mouth (4). They know where your “bliss point” is on any of their foods…based on texture, taste, packaging, aroma, and more. The closer they can come to that “bliss point” the more you will eat the product. It is a science of addiction that has caused the greatest health crisis the world has ever known. More people are going to die from obesity, diabetes and other chronic nutritionally related diseases than died from the flu pandemic in the early 20th century or from the black plague in the Middle Ages. And it was done on purpose, with malice aforethought all in the name of profit. Why we aren’t storming the gates with pitchforks in hand is beyond me.

And now they are going to sell us Paleo? Noooooooooooooo. These people do not have your best interest in mind. They are just going to use other things to addict you to their products. Honey, agave, and all the rest of the sweeteners are just as addictive. As babies it takes 13 times of tasting a savory food to learn to like it. It takes once (1) of tasting a sweet food to learn to like it. You need to get off the train at this station, right now.
You want to eat paleo(no capitals)lithic. Quit trying to make all the stuff you have been addicted to Paleo. Start back at the beginning. Start with quality food…from animals that are living they way they were intended to live. Chickens that are roaming around eating bugs and grass and seeds and more. Cows, sheep, goats that are wandering around eating the food they were designed by nature to eat. There is a reason bison isn’t grain fed and living in a feedlot. Vegetables grown by you or your neighbors or at least someone nearby. Maybe even stuff you go pick yourself. When was the last time you made pickles? Or your own sauerkraut? Or your own cream cheese or yogurt (for you dairy people)?

We use to know how to make all that stuff. 50 years ago (1963) most of the food we consumed came to us from real natural sources. 100 years ago (1913) it all came to us that way. We were more independent and self reliant. People made sure they had food to eat in the winter. There were no markets to buy berries in January from. The food distribution network didn’t exist as we know it today.

It (paleo) is all about quality. Quality of food before it hits your plate. Quality of preparation when it gets to your house. Quality of planning. You can make your own kim chee, your own yogurt; you can have chickens and a garden. You can find a local grower of lots of things; you can join a CSA (community supported agriculture). It will be harder than running into your local market but it will be so much more satisfying. Your food will be better, fresher, and better for you and your family. And if you do it right, cheaper too. If we factor in the long term health costs of bad diet it will be way way way cheaper. Take your power back from the companies that are shoveling you down the road to being held enthrall to the pharmaceutical companies (interesting how that works!).

Eat paleo (lithic) not Paleo!

Namaste
John
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