Sunday Story…Overfed and Undernourished

If we return to the 3 questions we ask in our search for the right “diet” most of us are overnourished, many of us are under-muscled, and some of us are metabolically challenged.

The fact of the matter is this:

Never in human history have we lived with so much food abundance. Throughout history, humans have had to store, preserve, hunt, and gather food. This often resulted in some very lean months; in some cultures, February is called the “hungry” month. All the stored food is gone and there is very little available to find. We went without. Hopefully, we gained a lot of fat during the good months and now we can use that stored body fat to survive.

Today there is no “hungry” month. I can run down to the neighborhood market and buy things from around the world. We have no need to get fat in the summer to survive the winter. Yet our evolution has not changed. We want to eat and store fat for the coming famine (that never arrives.)

So…maybe being overnourished isn’t as accurate as being overfed. Way too much of our nourishment comes in the form of highly processed crap food. So, we end up overfed and undernourished. This is the horn of our modern dilemma…food is everywhere and we keep getting sicker due to being overfed and undernourished.

The struggle is real. And when we add in the aging process, hormonal disruptions due to all kinds of different issues it seems almost insurmountable. So, we need to do a couple things: first, limit alcohol intake. Second, increase protein. And third, stay away from all forms of processed food. There are too many “disrupters” in today’s foods for any of it to be good for you but eating processed food in abundance is not going to lead to many good outcomes!

 

John Mariotti

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