Is Everything That Tastes Good Bad For Me?

I get this question often. An e-mail from a friend reminded me of this again. My friend and I were discussing my soon to be published book on sugar addiction and she wrote me the next morning complaining that there was nothing in her house that she could eat.

Is Everything That Tastes Good Bad for Me?

The short answer to this question is: yes. But before you click off this page, let me explain why our taste buds have been led astray, and then give you some hope about how that can change.

It All Started a Long Time Ago

While you might assume that the foods that we eat are the foods that people have been eating for a long time, this is simply not true. The foods that you appear on your plate are very different from the foods that humans have traditionally eaten. We have slowly, over time, replaced foods eaten directly from the earth with foods that have been somehow processed before they enter your mouth.

If you go back in time, you find that we went from eating literally no grains or sugars to; now, the bulk of the food that most people eat coming from those two sources. You can track dramatic shifts in the foods we eat. It all started around 7,000 years ago when we first began planting grains, the next big changes in our diet occurred with the exploration of the new worlds and the “discovery” of corn and potatoes, The final changes occurred with the mechanization of food production and processing. By far, the most severe changes to our diets have been in the last 60 years or so, where almost everything that we eat has been processed and changed in some way.

The reason why everything that tastes good is bad for you is that manufactures have learned what your taste buds like and feed you just that. Imagine for a moment that you are a junkie and everything around you is enticing you to use your drug of choice, in this case your drug of choice is food. Have you noticed how much advertising you see every day that deals with food or food-like substances?

So, yes, everything that tastes good is bad for you because your tastes are being manipulated by the very people who supply you with most of your food.

Ray of Hope

What you have to realize about the foods that you eat is that they are like drinking vodka as compared to drinking water; if you are used to drinking vodka, then water tastes bland. This is why we think carrots, apples, broccoli and other foods are so hard to eat. Our taste buds are used to an explosion of taste; when we eat normal foods, they are board.

The hope on the horizon is that the more you move to a natural way of eating, the more these fresh foods come alive.

For people who shun processed foods, carbohydrates and sugars, an apple is super sweet, carrots are a delight, and they crave broccoli. The more good foods that you eat, the more your cravings balance themselves and you start craving what your body really needs instead of what the food manufactures want you to crave.

Declare you independence from the food pushers and start eating the way your body wants you to eat.

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