We humans have really got it wrong for the last couple of million years.
All those mothers breastfeeding their babies with milk that’s about 50 per cent saturated fat! And the silly fathers cooking up a mammoth rib and then getting the kids to eat it with all the fat!
It’s lucky we have experts who write healthy eating guidelines for what foods kids should be eating now.
Otherwise I would not know chocolate milk is considered a healthy food, especially the low fat version so they can actually get a bit more sugar in.
And those processed sugar ‘fruit’ rollups are recommended because they’re 99 per cent fat free. How did we get it so wrong as cavemen?
Eating whole natural foods, including full fat ones and just eating when we felt like it, from whatever food we could get at the time.
Sales of cholesterol drugs and diet shakes must have been a lot higher thousands of years ago than they are now, to save everybody from obesity and heart attacks. Yes, it’s lucky we now have experts who put together helpful information on what our kids should eat.
The kind people from the huge food manufacturing companies even give lots of money to the studies and have some of their own paid people available to sit on the boards of these advisory committees and help decide what we all ‘should’ eat.
Now we won’t have to Google up articles like ‘Why our food is making us fat’, an article from the Guardian in the UK.
Or ‘What if It’s All Been a Big Fat Lie’ from the NY Times. And we don’t have to read studies by Havel and Stanhope et al… showing how consuming sugars like fructose raises risks of heart attack more than any study about consuming healthy fat will.
It’s all just an unlucky coincidence that we have the first generations ever with an expected lifespan shorter than their parents. Same for the fact that IVF clinics are a fast growing industry in medicine.
That has nothing to do with fats being an essential precursor to reproductive hormones.
So listen to these experts telling us to eat more, processed, convenient low fat food and do your best to see there won’t be humans around in another million years having the same problems!
