Wouldn't it be awesome if we could just eat ambrosia and nectar like the Greek Gods?
We wouldn't have to worry about whether it was "whole" or how many calories was in it. We wouldn't have to find out where it came from or even if it contained trans fats. It would always be our favorite food and, heck, we would be immortal!
Sounds like a pretty sweet deal, doesn't it?
Well, reality now punches us in the face and we realize we are but mortals living in the mortal realm full of processed food and a lot of opinions. We have no idea where our food comes from and we have no idea what these words on the back of the packaging really mean. Even when we figure out what carmine is, we have no idea if we should be eating it or not because what's her bucket told us that it causes cancer but who's his face told us it is the "secret weapon" to weight loss.
Instead of falling into a world of wondrous plenty, we have found ourselves wedged in a Food Identity Crisis.
I have every food I could imagine right at my fingertips... so what do I eat? It's so confusing.
Well, it depends on what your goal is.
This is going to be an Extreme Makeover: Food Edition.We wouldn't have to worry about whether it was "whole" or how many calories was in it. We wouldn't have to find out where it came from or even if it contained trans fats. It would always be our favorite food and, heck, we would be immortal!
Sounds like a pretty sweet deal, doesn't it?
Well, reality now punches us in the face and we realize we are but mortals living in the mortal realm full of processed food and a lot of opinions. We have no idea where our food comes from and we have no idea what these words on the back of the packaging really mean. Even when we figure out what carmine is, we have no idea if we should be eating it or not because what's her bucket told us that it causes cancer but who's his face told us it is the "secret weapon" to weight loss.
Instead of falling into a world of wondrous plenty, we have found ourselves wedged in a Food Identity Crisis.
I have every food I could imagine right at my fingertips... so what do I eat? It's so confusing.
Well, it depends on what your goal is.
- If you have no goals for your body, then Good News! You can eat whatever the heck you want! (But you may end up paying some consequences down the road)
- If your goal is to have the body and health of the god you just imagined yourself being, then it takes a bit more effort and isn't that straight forward.
The first reference we are going to analyze is the book called "The China Study" by T. Colin Campbell, PhD and Thomas M. Campbell II, MD; The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health
I chose this book to start with because this study is simply huge when it comes to studying nutrition. There is no other study like it. It used an incredibly large sample size and was conducted over an extremely long length of time for a study of this nature.
Let's begin.
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