The prehistoric man would not recognize the boxed pastas, the bags of chips, cheese puffs, and other snack foods as anything he would want to put in his mouth.
There's the box of pasta, just add milk and butter, the pop it into the microwave. There's ready-to-pop into the oven pizza, and countless other packaged and precooked foods that are so convenient. It may be hard to believe, but Americans today eat 31 percent more processed and packaged foods than fresh foods.
What is the price we are willing to pay for the convenience rather than the health quality of our diets? While opting for convenience, we tend to ignore the artificial additives, flavorings, and coloring that are attached to those convenient foods.
Are the many nutritionists who think that price is our very health exaggerating, trying to scare us into a different diet? Or are they forecasters warning us to be remorseful and clean up our dietary act?
These warnings may be easily dismissed as "crying wolf", but the proof is in the ever mounting research, strong indication that we may want to sit up and take notice.
Take a look at refined white sugar -- not even available to our prehistoric ancestors. Today, it appears to be a staple of the American diet. Think it's a big exaggerating? The following statistic should get you thinking a little bit deeper about how we eat.
The average American consumes (now get this!) between two to three pounds of sugar per week. In the last decade, a short 10 years, the consumption of refined sugar has increased from approximately 26 pounds per person every year to a whopping 135! Sadly, most of us don't even know that we're consuming that much sugar.
And that's only one donor to our current diet. Multiply these by all the other foods and additives, and it's no wonder we have a nation of heart problems, diabetes, arthritis, and cancer sufferers!
There's the box of pasta, just add milk and butter, the pop it into the microwave. There's ready-to-pop into the oven pizza, and countless other packaged and precooked foods that are so convenient. It may be hard to believe, but Americans today eat 31 percent more processed and packaged foods than fresh foods.
What is the price we are willing to pay for the convenience rather than the health quality of our diets? While opting for convenience, we tend to ignore the artificial additives, flavorings, and coloring that are attached to those convenient foods.
Are the many nutritionists who think that price is our very health exaggerating, trying to scare us into a different diet? Or are they forecasters warning us to be remorseful and clean up our dietary act?
These warnings may be easily dismissed as "crying wolf", but the proof is in the ever mounting research, strong indication that we may want to sit up and take notice.
Take a look at refined white sugar -- not even available to our prehistoric ancestors. Today, it appears to be a staple of the American diet. Think it's a big exaggerating? The following statistic should get you thinking a little bit deeper about how we eat.
The average American consumes (now get this!) between two to three pounds of sugar per week. In the last decade, a short 10 years, the consumption of refined sugar has increased from approximately 26 pounds per person every year to a whopping 135! Sadly, most of us don't even know that we're consuming that much sugar.
And that's only one donor to our current diet. Multiply these by all the other foods and additives, and it's no wonder we have a nation of heart problems, diabetes, arthritis, and cancer sufferers!
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Since the Paleo diet is based on foods that were consumed before the agricultural revolution, they do not hold additives which can cause heart disease and other health issues, By following the Paleo diet you are bettering your chance of a healthy life.. This article, Your Prehistoric Ancestor Would Not Recognize What We Eat As Food has free reprint rights.
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