This may seem like a ludicrous question. Everybody knows diets never work permanently right? Yes, but here are some very different things you will want to know about food and diets. This is new information that will challenge everything we have all been taught about diets and nutrition, for the past forty years.
Almost every day, we are urged to follow a diet based on complex carbohydrates, fruit and vegetables, some proteins and small amounts of reduced fat, (whatever that is). This is not the diet on which we evolved and thrived for centuries, which made us the lean, healthy human beings we were till just forty years ago.
In the course of forty years, it has become widely accepted that to be healthy, people must follow a healthy diet, prescribed by a plethora of self proclaimed Diet Experts. Nowhere in our past history was it ever suggested that to Diet was necessary for good health. Our body was created to be able to control our weight with foods evolution prescribed for us.
If you examine the contrast of body shapes between the people who were young forty years ago, to the people who are young today, you can be excused for saying; the only advancement which can be attributed to the diet industry since then, is a fast growing epidemic of obesity and type2 diabetes.
Today, our health is not a testament to what is referred to as our Healthy Diet. It is a testament to our amazing resilience to withstand the damage of foods which nature never intended us to eat.
In the past, most people knew instinctively what foods we were meant to eat. Their instincts must have worked, because people did not tend to put on weight, they did not go hungry, they rarely became obese and when they did it was usually due to a medical condition like an under active thyroid or Diabetes. No one had even heard of Type 2 Diabetes.
Then along came the cereal manufacturers, followed by Nutritionists, Dieticians, and diet food manufacturers. Here was a new pseudo science, dressed in a cloak of legitimacy, but without a shred of genuine scientific research to back it up.
We would not feed our animals on a diet of complex carbohydrates, breakfast cereals, low fat snack foods, and vast amounts of fruit and vegetables. If we did, we would see our pets become fat, listless and unhappy. They could even die. Yet, we seem to advocate this as a healthy diet for human beings.
Too many vested interests control the foods we eat today. We need to take responsibility for our own choices and stop listening to those who preach what is clearly in their own interest. We can no longer afford yet another guru diet, which is not based on genuine science, offers not a shred of genuine research, or statistics on human trials. Let us make no mistake here; to these co called Experts, we ARE the Research.
Sometimes we need to remind ourselves where we come from. Different mammals may have different digestive systems, but we cannot stand in the face of nature and decide to change, or improve on what nature designed. Not without consequences. Climate change should have taught us that. Wherever we see human intervention to nature, we see trouble.
A good intention, even when genuine, is no proof of anything except good intentions. Nutritionists and dieticians seem to genuinely believe they have made a valuable contribution to the health and welfare of the world. Since this is a bold claim, based not on science, but on optimism, it is a good opportunity to take a good look around and get the measure of the average person you pass in the street today. Then ask yourself; where is the evidence? If those claims were true, weight problems would at least be diminished by now. Instead, we are faced with the biggest epidemic of weight problems ever seen.
It is time to accept that weight problems do not rest with the dieter, the problem is the diet.
Today, more than sixty percent of the population is classified as overweight. Many are already obese and many more will follow. For those who slide into obesity, there is just a short step to what we call type 2 Diabetes. This is yet another phenomenon no one had heard of forty years ago.
We need to discard the latest so called Healthy Balanced Diet, the newest in a forty year old tradition of carefully constructed and ultimately discredited diets. We need to get back to basics. We need to re-learn the right foods because we seem to have forgotten what they are. It is finally possible to answer these three very important questions. Why it is so hard to lose weight? Why, when we repeatedly diet, does it become ever more difficult to lose weight? And why, when we finally lose some weight, can we never get a permanent weight loss?
