Eating Healthy Is The New Evil!

Bit of an attention grabber I must admit. But there is some truth to what i'm going to speak about today. The fact that healthy eating has become an outlier to the way people should eat day to day. In some ways, the most pre-evolved characteristic we still possess is our act of foraging on naturally grown substances, yet, even with that in mind, the idea of being 'that person' who eats whole source, wild harvested, non-GMO foods is a 'weirdo' in the eyes of society, more out then they are in. How has it come to this? How have we reached a point where the act of eating what's right for you is the diet and eating processed garbage (for a lack of better terminology) is the conventional form of nutrition?

I'm not here to argue about the enjoyment of food, being able to balance things you enjoy and things that are good for you, nor am I trying to conform you to following one 'style' of eating. I simply wish to raise a question and develop a conversation amongst peers and readers alike. With the root of said conversation planted in the idea that in current times the act of eating holistically with the intent of negating processed foods (as we did since the dawn of sophisticated life) has become a fad to its counter part, the processed food rich plates of the modern western world.

I sit here almost lost for words. But I also see where this has all come from. It's similar to many aspects of the modern world. Everything is either ostracized or glorified. Take, seeming we are in this space, exercise for example. Before self obsession and the never ending thirst for acceptance plagued our modern society, due to unrealistic representations of strength, beauty, and physiology (thanks social media!), exercise/bodybuilding/sport was simply a gateway to health. Ever since the first olympic games, athletic performance was driven by opportunity to provide, for family honour, or to represent something greater than oneself, a Nation or village. Training was based on performance not aesthetic. But even some hundreds of years ago, who looked the best? The olympians, the soldiers, and the farmers. All those whom worked physical jobs and required a sound body to carry out tasks in order to provide for their family. Was there any thought of how they looked? I'm sure there was interest from different parties, but the individual themselves I can probably land a good guess that their intention was solely founded on performance and not aesthetic. Were they looked upon as outcasts for obsessing over their craft? At the time, unlikely. Were they glorified for their success? Most likely. Just from logical thinking based on human perception, we can see how over human history the development of this downwards look on people who obsess over their craft and transversely the glorification of people who form unrealistic representations of the human body has evolved. From olympians being glorified for their championship to the bodybuilder standing on stage. Both represent the peak of human evolution, but also face scrutiny for the process. Much is now the same with how people view nutrition. Whereas, in the times of the first olympians, eating whole sourced food was the only option, and for the olympian to yield success, consumption of food would come in no short order. Yet nowadays, one watches a YouTube video of 'What Micheal Phelps Eats In A Day" and think of it as a wonder....wow! what discipline! It must suck eating all those greens everyday?! You think he gets tired of that tasteless food?... on and on without thought or reason as to why they eat that way. And I circle back again to my question of why do people think that eating healthy is the fad, is the sacrifice, is the new hip thing to do? Where did human's lose the perception that simply eating things that come from within or on the earth is the natural way to eat and eating anything made in a factory is not.

However, as I sit here sipping on my Kombucha I do come to settle on the thought once again of the impact social media has had on the human perception. We've mangled so deeply the idea of healthy eating with human produced foods. If our ancestors wanted to reap the benefits of Kombucha they would've picked it off the stem, eaten it, and known none the better. But now here I sit, ranting on the lack of consistency in human thought processes surrounding food, sipping on a manufactured drink because I perceive the consumption of this drink as beneficial based on the principle of Kombucha being glorified as a super food. So in this very moment of ranting and raving, and trying to figure out the root to this issue, i've solved it myself. It's perception. How we navigate the social world via inputs and outputs heavily determine our individual choices. So to answer my own question (why do people think that eating healthy is the fad, is the sacrifice, is the new hip thing to do?), it's because they perceive unhealthy as the standard or even so as healthy itself, and view healthy eating as the newly introduced look on nutrition, knowing no better between the two.

It's disheartening, where once again the root of confusion, in an already un-orderly world, is the fabrication of what's right and what's wrong based on the sole purpose of monetary gain. Force feeding modern society to believe that one form of eating is superior to the other to brainwash the great majority into thinking the opposite is not the answer. Because greens cost more than candy bars.