When did eating real food become a revolutionary act?
The path to healthy eating is not understanding nutritional labels, it is to eat foods without nutritional labels, real food.
Nutritional labels are only mandatory for processed foods. Foods that have had a series of mechanical or chemical operations performed to change or preserve it.
Over the millennia real food has served as well however in recent times the levels of processed food consumed have increased as has the frequency of obesity, auto immune and malignancy disease. Although processed food cannot be totally avoided, minimising is essential to a healthy lifestyle.
Maximising food without labels puts the focus on fresh vegetables, fruit, meats, seeds, nuts, eggs, diary. Whether you choose to follow a vegan, vegetarian, carnivorous or pescetarian, the focus should be on the unprocessed. Food that will rot if unfrozen.
Avoiding processed foods that have recently become our staples will see significant improvements in health, vitality and satiety. These include avoiding foods with processed grains, processed sugars, hydrogenated vegetable oils, artificial colouring, artificial sweeteners, artificial flavoring and artificial preservatives.
The biggest barrier for most is time, time to shop, time to prepare food. The irony is that if we don’t invest the time now, our vitality will be short lived.
