Wednesday, April 4, 2007

Starving Ourselves Fat

Where do you find the most nutritious food in the grocery store? I think most everyone knows it's the food around the edges of the store: things like fresh fruits and vegetables. These are the foods that provide the most nutrition. However, they often cost more and they don't have a long shelf life. As as result, I'm told that 90% of our food consumption is the food from the middle of the store: the processed foods.

If 90% of the food we eat is from the low nutrition category, is it possible that we are starving ourselves fat. We eat and eat but are never satisfied. Is it possible that our bodies know we aren't getting the nutrition we need so they tell us to keep eating and eating? I think we are starving for nutrition while we are getting way too many calories and getting fatter and fatter.

I've found that when I eat highly processed food I never get full. I've also found that when I eat high quality fruits and vegetables I do get full and don't want any more food until I'm really hungry again.

I know from experience that my weight comes down to a normal range when I eliminate most all processed food from my diet.

We need to change our food paradigm and look for high value food instead of the low cost, low value foods in the middle of the grocery store.

I'll meet you further on up the road.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Well said.