| Online: | |
| Visits: | |
| Stories: |
| Story Views | |
| Now: | |
| Last Hour: | |
| Last 24 Hours: | |
| Total: | |
The REAL Food Guide: How We Ate 100 Years Ago
I’m hungry… what should I eat? Low fat? Low sodium? Low carb? High protein?
When did eating get so complicated?
It hasn’t always been like this. We ate in-season food from our local area and we cooked the recipes our mothers or grandmothers taught us to make. We didn’t calculate the number of calories we ate, or grams of carbs or fat. We ate real food and we enjoyed it.
What Went Wrong With Nutrition?
As a society, we’re arguably better fed than we have ever been, but are we better nourished? There are many new theories that say no – we have an abundance of food but we are starving on a cellular level. I’ve spent the last 14 years totally consumed by nutritional research, trying to figure out what went wrong and how to fix the problem, and I have a few theories.
It’s difficult to pinpoint an exact place in history where our diet and our idea of healthy eating got off track, but if you really want to know, I’d say everything went wrong when the government started to tell us what to eat.
You see, the nutritional sciences are full of inaccuracies. It’s very hard to use the current scientific method to study the effects of a diet on a population. You can’t use a placebo-controlled double-blind study (like they do with drugs), because you can’t create a placebo food. Most dietary studies are simply weak, they use a small group of people and they rely on their memory for their data.
What did you eat for lunch last Wednesday? Do you remember? Now try to remember everything you ate last month and you get an idea of some of the inaccuracies found in the nutritional sciences.
Conflict of Interest?
Health Canada and the FDA are trying their best; they really would like us to be as healthy as possible. It’s in their best interests for North Americans to be fit, healthy, and age well. The Canadian Food Guide and the American Healthy Plate are based on the current trends in nutritional science (notice I used the word “trends”), and unfortunately a nice big splash of politics.
For example, the Canadian Food Guide is designed primarily by an advisory committee of 12 people, made up of industry professionals including employees from:
- The Vegetable Oil Industry Council – the folks who bring us refined and processed oils.
- The British Columbia Dairy Foundation – who have a big stake in keeping the recommended daily dairy intake level high.
- The Food and Consumer Product Manufacturers Board – who bring us the many calorie dense/nutritionally void products that stock the shelves of your average grocery store.
As a Nutritionist, I question the validity of letting industry professionals who profit from what we eat dictate how we should eat. Instead of eating whole, unprocessed food, and listening to what our body wants (our gut instinct), we now decide rationally what we should and shouldn’t eat. We’ve learned to ignore our own instincts for rationality.
Be AWARE truthisscary.com
Source: http://truthisscary.com/2015/02/the-real-food-guide-how-we-ate-100-years-ago/
canola oil, rapeseed oil, is not meant for human consumption. maybe to power a car, but not a body!
good article.