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Diet Basics – What Should You Eat And Why
Diet – many people have a love/hate relationship with this word. But why do you even need to diet in the first place? Shouldn’t our body (which is pretty smart about other things) self regulate and stay healthy on its own? Yea, that would be nice, but there are two problems here because of which that will never happen.
First and rather obvious is the ability of our bodies to store extra calories as fat, which can be burned in the future for energy. Of course, this worked a lot better a few thousand years ago where food was scare and people might’ve gone a few days between eating. In today’s world with plenty of easily available food (for the most part) such built-in mechanism isn’t of as much use as it used to be.
The other problem, and it is the reason why one must diet is that human body simply hasn’t adapted to the way food and food processing changed. Think about it, the way food is being processed changed drastically in the last hundred years, yet our bodies are the same as they were back then. The food contains elements today that our bodies simply can’t deal with – from high fat foods to foods with lots of cholesterol etc etc.
For example a watermelon contains lots of sugar – but since it’s a natural food, made by nature, you would be hard pressed to eat enough of them to get any illnesses. On the other hand candy contains lots of sugar but is a processed food, the kind of food that didn’t exist even a few hundred years ago, as such our bodies aren’t able to deal with its contents. eating candy you can easily get diabetes. In fact I herd a story of a guy who ate 10 pounds of candies over a week (don’t ask me why in the world he did that) and got a diabetes. Something like that would be nearly impossible with a natural food.
As such the basics of a diet would dictate that one should try to stick to natural food (foods found in nature) and try to avoid anything processed. Of course a diet like that is too extreme for most people (I certainly know I am not going to be able to stick to a diet like that) but it’s still a great guideline for a diet.
As such you should try to include as much fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds as you can in it, of course lean meat and none bottom feeder fish is great too.
