When you are in a place where you are looking to move forward in terms of health or you are merely looking at losing some weight, you will find that you have to take a long hard look at what you eat. The thing that many people do is that they do not think this through thoroughly enough! It makes sense that there are some foods that are just bad for you, but what about whole types of food? What does the human body really need and what can you do to make sure that your own is getting it? This question is one that a lot of people are asking and the answer may surprise!
More and more people are realizing that at the very bottom of it, we are descended from hunter-gatherers and not a whole lot has changed in our physical make-up. However, the circumstances we live in are very different, as is the food that is available to us. We can no longer stop and spend long periods of our day out and about and hunting things or looking for plants that will sustain us. More conveniently, we have stores and a hugely wide variety of different foods available to us. Now what we need to do is to think about how our ancestors ate and how we are eating today.
When you think about, humans have gone through long periods where what they ate negatively affected the ways their lives were. The Renaissance brought in large social centers in the form of big cities and because food had to be shipped, it significantly decreased in quality. During the Victorian era, a well-bred person might eat very little that was raw and green. Now if we take it back one step further, we find ourselves asking whether our ancient forbears would eat things like dairy, or gluten products? Would they have had access to preservatives to keep their food good for long periods of time?
Nowadays, we can find things like dairy and gluten everywhere. Commercial farming has made it available to us, but should we really eat it? If our ancestors were to eat things like that, they would probably make themselves quite sick. Their bodies would have been unaccustomed to this type of food and they would not have known how to deal with it. On the other hand, we have been eating it all our lives, but does it really make us healthy? Preservatives do keep our food from spoiling, but why worry about that when there are so many fresh options available at your local farmer's market? The solution seems to be that we need to learn to eat more simply and less complexly, and to take a page from our ancestor's book!
Take some time and really think about what your options are when it comes to food. What can you get from eating more primitively and what can you take from it? Chances are, there is a lot that you can get out of learning to eat in this fashion!
