Four years of college studying Exercise Science and all I learned about nutrition is that those books are making us fat. People are getting the wrong information when it comes to eating healthy from some pretty respectable sources. My favorite is when I see doctors walking around at least 30+ pounds overweight yet they can still suggest to their overweight patients that he/she needs to start eating better and getting in more exercise. More than likely your primary physician will suggest something along the lines of this:
Eat 500-600 calories a meal (not really being specific with the sources of those calories).Eat carbs at every meal since this is the source for all your bodies energy and recovery needs.Watch your fats. Eat as little fat as you can. (I suggest the zero calorie spray butter)Lots of Fruits and Veggies (good suggestion but then they say this). Drink juices like OJ and Apple Juice.Drink lots of Milk! You need your calcium! (the doctor probably doesn't know that there is even better quality of calcium found in leafy greens then there is in dairy.
The books are wrong. It's a joke. It's as if people were told one way to eating healthy and that's what everyone stuck too. Now that I think about it, the people who usually object to modern scientific approaches to eating are usually a bit older. Maybe it's old age setting in and they are getting more set in their ways. I don't know, but what I do know is that these modern approaches to eating are saving lives and allowing people to live longer and stronger than ever before.
It's just like different styles of weight training. I know a few people who are so stuck on traditional weight lifting that they don't even want to try anything new. Everything is a fad to them and it will all get washed way in the end. I hate to say it but we are only getting older. People are coming out with new things that are proving to make you faster and stronger.
Let's Think Outside of The Box Okay, back to what I was saying. You need to open your eyes, clean out your ears and start listening to some of these crazy people who are talking about changing the way you see food. We are taking you back to the basics. Back to a time where all you ate was what you could kill or pick from the land you lived on. The Primal Way of Life.
For the past couple of months I have really been looking at the way Americans eat now compared to how we ate back in the day (I'm talking climbing trees and hunting with sticks). It's no wonder that we are so fat. We are lazy. Our schedules are busy. I'm not blaming it 100% on you, but society as a whole is who is responsible. We need things to be faster. I call it the "Heat Lamp Generation" We don't have time to prepare and cook it the way we should. So we find a place where it has already been prepared and is patiently waiting under a heat lamp to be served. "Don't bother cooking that in front of me, do you have anything already pre-made?" There is a reason why our ancestors ate and prepared food the way they did (besides the fact that they were many years behind us a far as technology goes). It was what they had to do in order to support their lifestyles. they were the image of health.
We are bringing Primal back. We are eating plants and animals. This week I am going to go over the foundation to what a "Primal" eating style looks like. I am not going to confuse you or suggest you do things that are out of this world but I want you to see how easy it is to start changing a few of the things you do now to better your eating. This has been a slow and steady transition for me as well. I am not 100% primal but I have started to make small changes that have already started to prove there worth.
William
William Richards--Owner and writer of http://www.beyondgymwalls.com/ ---Twitter: Willfit---Facebook: Beyond Gym Walls
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