Originally Posted by
volwest
DEET,
First thing first, a little bit of humor...Sit down to a good hot meal ? Maybe in the Army. "A good hot meal" negates being in the military...at least the Marines.
I am extremely suspicious of "old adages"...especially when talking about food and our relationship with it. After all, not too long ago "they" (adages creators) flipped the trusted food pyramid on it's side.
We obviously do not know what the hell we are talking about here. More teenagers have an eating disorder than there are gun owners in this country, and most of our TV programs are somehow linked to food one way or another. While tabloids, magazines and diet or cook books exploit this fascination of ours while we parade around eating pounds of food in one serving, and drink more crap than is humanly possible in 2 liter mugs.
My first post pointed out this compulsion, and it is still viewed as something far fetch.
A positive attitude should not be linked to food. How can i survive in this world if i regard food as the ultimate life source ?
No sun means no food. No water means no food....etc.
Our priorities as humans have been turned upside down through the emulation of fear, power and pleasure.
Some people on this planet work 16 hour days in the fields or mines and all they eat is a bowl of rice with some bamboo shoots in it. How is that for proof that all of our views regarding this grand savior is out of place ?
You talk about "body types"...What on earth is that ?
Reserves ? How can we think that way ?
This approach is only good if we ALREADY are in a survival situation, and we cannot preserve nor transport our kill for example, the lion or big predators still function that way...eating all they can and walking away carrying 50 pounds of meat in their belly, risking being killed themselves for not being able to run anymore!!! That's reserve. But us ? I am not a big cat...
We have to re-think our view on food. The way we consume it, the way we feel about it, the way we talk about it, the way we joke about it. Everything about food was and is denatured.
With the advance of technology, we have now the capabilities of storing pounds of foods at home, the availability of nutrients is so abundant today, and yet we fear lacking it more and more. We are obsessed.
Food defines cultures, it defines religions, food defines your rank, your place in the heard, your status...food defines us.
Is it a good thing you are overweight ?
Of course not !
Biologically speaking it makes your heart work harder, it makes your blood circulation poorer, think about the fat that accumulates around your arteries, and from a survival point of view, i would rather be agile and fast than carry a "little extra fat for later ! "
But that is not the issue i bring "to the table" (here it is again)...the issue is psychological...the issue is what food means to us, and how it affects our state of minds.
So "it" does not depend on your reserve, "it" depends on your state of mind, and how you deal with hunger. I always enjoy watching "survivor" for many psychological reasons, but food is a big one. The "hunter" or "food provider" is almost always viewed as the hero, the mother/father, the savior. Why ?
Some of them, will pass on $1000 000 for a slice of pizza.
This same mentality, in a survival situation, will sell your life for that same slice of pizza.
Is this what thousands of years of humanity comes down to ?
Some say we are the most intelligent specie in the world...yet we are governed by a slice of pizza. We are governed by the fear of lacking something that is not even at the top of the list of must haves biologically.
We do need food to survive.
But we must recognize the mechanisms and processes involved with this need. We have lost along the way the true meaning of food. We have turned food into a jail, imprisoning our minds in walls made of sugar.
Food shouldn't be a mental process, but we made it that way.
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