What Should We Eat? The Confusion and Conspiracy (part i)

I’ve had clients who were hundreds of pounds over-weight, and because they were brutally honest with themselves and me, met all their fitness goals over time. I’ve also had clients who were only a few pounds over-weight but blamed the world for everything. So, no matter what exercise or menu program I introduced, they never met any of their fitness goals. They were essentially stuck. You could say that the client who weighed the most, but who took personal responsibility for her life, was much healthier even with the extra weight. Indeed, she was healthier because her mental and emotional health were far more developed than the other client who felt she had it all together minus a few pounds. 

Interestingly, when Hippocrates coined the phrase, “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food,” he was speaking across the aegis of time. Meaning, he couldn’t foresee a time when the needs of the human body relative to health and longevity could be any different than in his time. And he was right. The nutritional needs of the human body have not changed. We still require 90 essential nutrients on a daily basis: 60 minerals, 16 Vitamins, 12 Amino-Acids, and 2-3 Fatty acids, in order to maintain optimum health. But what has changed dramatically are the foods we consume, most of which never existed even a few decades ago.