People have abandoned the Paleo diet for mass produced food and a sedentary lifestyle. The Paleo diet is also called the caveman diet or Paleolithic diet. In the Hunter-gatherers society, some 2 million years ago, humans consumed natural foods; fish, meat, vegetables, fruits, nuts and eggs. It was a diet low in carbohydrates and high in proteins and animal fats. In such a society, diabetes, cancer and heart disease is believed to have been rare. The modern diet and lifestyle give people exposure to modern diseases.
In fact, it is possible to avoid the usual aging-related disease by simply adopting a healthy lifestyle and diet. Yet, the modern society tempts us to consume junk food and beverages, which are unhealthy. In addition, unhealthy food seems to be cheaper due to the mass production approach used, involving even GM foods. For the economy mass production of food is a good thing, but the real price is being paid by downgraded human health.
Government intervention on the subject of healthy food is highly subjective and distorted. It seems that the state is more interested in poisoning us than curing the food industry.
Facts: Government Promote Unhealthy Food
If we look at the Modern American society, we see more people becoming obese, year on year. Diseases are also distressing younger adults and even in some cases affecting children. This applies to illness such as heart disease and diabetes, not to mention cancer. This is the real case scenario despite that people have more awareness on health than ever before.
In economic terms, it makes sense to subsidize unhealthy food. It will bring profit in various ways; first food becomes cheap, secondly people start falling sick and this is followed by a win-gain position for the medical industry.
Some Examples:
In the past FDA had considered walnuts as being an effective drug, but when Diamond food, Inc provided scientific evidence of the benefits of walnuts on their webpage. The company was forced to remove the information from their webpage, and if they didn’t they would be faced with risk of being out of business. At the same time, FDA permitted Frito Lay to post claims that deep fried carbohydrate-laden chips were healthy. In other words, the stronger your lobbyist is the more likely are you to promote your products.
On Life Extension Legislation, we can find some interesting facts on the support of these FDA legislation.
But we always have choice, Dr. Michael Rose suggests that a hunter-gatherer lifestyle can actually end aging. It helps to prevent most health predicaments; cancer, diabetes and heart disease.
Wed, Jan 18, 2012
Anti Aging, Health And Aging, Lifestyle