These passed few weeks I have been reading a book by dr. Agaston about the south beach diet. This doctor, who is a cardiologist, stumbled on a diet while trying to workout a healthy eating system for his patients. Since heart and cardiovascular deseases are well represented in my family tree I thought it would be a wise thing to check out what mr. Agaston has to say.
It is all very logical really, and I even might try this one. It comes highly recommended by my sister so it can’t be that bad. But honesty, I do detest the fact that I have to consider a diet. I have done diets before. A few years back I tried weightwatchers and quite succesfully I might add, loosing up to 8 kg in an few months. Only to watch the weight crawling back up in again an few months. Ok, Mauritses arrival in this world had something to do with it, but still....
They only diet that always works with me is stress and tough times. Instead of eating, I suddenly stop eating completely, achieving some very good results. But when the stress is less, suposedly my body does not understand this and stores every extra cruble on my hip.
What really pisses me off is the explanation of all the diet-experts that we – as people - are gaining weight and dying of terrible deseases because our eating habbits conflict with the way we are built. We are – so to say – fysiologically unfit for the modern lifestyle.
HOW LONG HAS CIVILIZATION BEEN AROUND, PEOPLE!!????? 50.000 YEARS?????
Why have we – as people- still not been able to evolve into a species that can easily drink himself silly every day without waking up with a headache? Why have our bodies not realized that we have stopped hunting deer, gathering fruit, and building villages? The only hunting we do nowadays is virtual and the only villages we build are on facebook. There is no phisical exercise involved in any of that. You should think our body systems must have picked up on that by now.
But noooooooo, our bodies still pretend that we might actually might not have food tomorrow and are being greedy bitches by storing EVERYTHING THEY SEE!! If we have been eating refined food for generations! Deal with it and move on. If we have not been adding the necessary fibres to our diets lately, be creative and use alcohol instead. How difficult can it be to shed all access energy we take in? The system is in place, lets use it properly. It does not seam all that difficult to me.
If nowadays it takes a simple pokemon to do an act of courage to evolve into another lifeform, why can we – as people – not do the same? We had our fare share of wars, that is corageous! It is time to move on.
And that, my friends, is the real problem of our times. Our bodies are in denial! What we need is a mass intervention to reset its habits and maybe we can finally evolve into a new species. A new species that I would like to call the homo non-dietus!
