Why Do We Eat Anyway?
Most of us eat for a variety of reasons, but mainly it is a simple question of satisfying our taste buds and filling our stomachs.
Taking on board food and liquids to stay healthy is generally very much an after thought, almost a side show to the main event of eating because we want to.
Therefore, it should come as no surprise that we often buy what is convenient, quick or easy rather than what is healthy.
In other words, if it tastes good and fills our stomach, that’s all that most of us consciously think about most of the time.
No matter that almost every one is fully well aware that ‘fast foods’ are not that good for us, or that we all know that junk food is even less helpful.
Basically, it is a fact of modern life that almost every one in the ‘civilized’ nations of the West is willing to allow their health to play a distant second fiddle to convenience and instant gratification.
Look at the average food establishments strung out along any suburban high street, or in your local shopping mall.
How many of them serve any kind of raw green vegetables besides insipid, two day old lettuce that had to be drenched in artificial preservatives to get it to survive as long as it has?
Wouldn’t this one fact alone tell you that something very fundamental is missing from the diet of modern man?
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