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Why our environment is stacking the odds against health
Technology: helping or hurting?
These devices that allow dieters in 2019 to track their carefully measured out food intake and log exact calories burned to ensure that they have exactly the right caloric balance on any given day rob us of our natural instincts and intuition regarding movement and food.
The food industry doesn’t make money if you’re healthy (nor does pharma)
The modern environment - of hyper palatable foods, of engineers in labs whose job it is to design ‘franken-foods’ that make us unable to stop eating, of constant food availability - is not what our genes are wired for.
Is your food really food?
If it's got an ingredients list and/or that list contains anything you can't identify, the answer is likely 'no'
Sugar’s role in mental and physical health
Is it really just 'harmless' and 'the same as other calories' as the food industry has told us? There's a much darker side than the energy highs and crashes of this addictive substance
A confluence of factors not in your favour
It’s impossible to pin down an exact, singular cause for the global obesity and health epidemic. No doubt is the combination of 24/7 access to food, most of which is engineered to tap into hardwired addictive pathways in the brain via careful combination of sugar, fat and salt a major player, but the rest of 21st century compounds these effects.
You can gain some control back!
You can gain some control back! There are some ways to work around our environment that is setting us up to fail; it just requires more work. Here’s a list of general tips:
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