What is the body designed to eat?

What is the Body designed to Eat?
 
The human body is designed to live off the land. We have evolved over 1000’s of years, yet our nutritional requirements are still fairly similar to our caveman ancestors. We still require adequate amounts of fresh meat, vegetables, and a modest amount of fruit, to maintain optimal health and sustenance.
 
In fact, in this day and age, it would be quicker to tell you what the body is designed to eat rather than what it is isn’t. As our ancestors have done for centuries, we are designed to gain our nutrition chiefly from animals – protein – including meat, fish and eggs, and in more recent times, cheese and quality dairy such as natural yoghurt. We are designed to get most of our carbohydrates from vegetables.
 
Carbohydrates are a big talking point in dieting circles these days, and cover all manner of good and evil, from breads, rice and pasta to cakes, biscuits and crackers. But until about 10,000 years ago (a mere second in terms of human evolution), we were only designed to gain our carbohydrates from vegetables and fruit. After all, whoever heard of Adam being tempted by a piece of bread in the Bible? Since the advent of farming, we have begun to rely on grains more and more, to a point where some 70% or more of our diet is now grain dependant.
 
Though we may not realise it, most of us actually require a greater amount of protein, less carbohydrates, and more good quality fats, to maintain good health.
 
What is the Body NOT designed to Eat?
 
That question opens a whole can of worms. In a nutshell – anything that didn’t originate from the soil or a living animal is not ideal for consumption. Every time you pick up a microwave meal, a pack of biscuits, a packet soup or a baked product you are planning to eat something the body was not designed to digest. Add to these ‘foreign’ products a whole range of chemicals, additives and E numbers and you have a toxic mixture that is slowly spreading disease and malnutrition to every living cell in your body.
 
Artificial sugar, man-made fats, colourings, stabilisers, preservatives… all these elements and more are added to many of the ‘foods’ that we consume these days, and it is our general lack of nutritional knowledge that the food companies are preying on when they sell us this junk. Many of us are unwittingly putting ourselves into an early grave by consuming these man-made potions, convinced that if supermarkets sell them then they can’t be that bad for us. Think again.
 
‘Live a little!’ you might think. Fair enough. The odd humanly modified food here and there won’t kill you, but in this day and age of long working hours, tight deadlines, stress and exhaustion, we look more and more towards our food for comfort. No wonder then that so many of us crave sweet tasting, artificially enhanced ‘dream’ foods that will take our senses away from life for just a few minutes.

We are doing this all too regularly as we search out quick food fixes, requiring little preparation and instant satisfaction. Many of us feel we don’t have the time to eat fresh produce, cook quality foods or food shop regularly. It’s a double edged sword. On the one hand we don’t have time to eat properly. On the other, our stressful lives lead us to crave sweet snacks, drinks and foods that provide us with an artificial high and a surplus of calories.

Follow the basic guidelines outlined here, and you will begin to eat as you were designed to; cleanly, healthily and without cravings!

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Simon Dainton is a Certified Personal Trainer and fat loss expert. Founder of Fitstreet Personal Training in the UK, his Programs of Lifestyle change guarantee clients results, combining effective exercise, nutrition and lifestyle adjustments. For more information and to receive your FREE fat loss guide, go to www.fitstreet.co.uk/. For the latest fat loss news and tips, check out fitstreet.blogspot.com

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