{"id":7646,"date":"2015-03-14T20:12:03","date_gmt":"2015-03-14T17:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lifeadvancer.com\/?p=7646"},"modified":"2015-03-14T20:12:03","modified_gmt":"2015-03-14T17:12:03","slug":"the-real-food-guide-how-we-ate-100-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lifeadvancer.com\/the-real-food-guide-how-we-ate-100-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Food Guide: What the Food Was Like 100 Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m hungry\u2026 what should I eat? Low fat? Low sodium? Low carb? High protein?<\/h2>\n

When did eating get so complicated?<\/p>\n

It hasn\u2019t always been like this. We ate in-season food from our local area and we cooked the recipes our\u00a0mothers or grandmothers taught us to make. We didn\u2019t calculate the number of calories we ate or grams of carbs or fat. We ate real food and we enjoyed it.<\/p>\n

What Went Wrong With Nutrition?<\/h3>\n

As a society, we\u2019re arguably better fed than we have ever been, but are we better nourished? There are many new theories that say no \u2013 we have an abundance of food but we\u00a0are starving on a cellular level. I\u2019ve spent the last 14 years totally consumed by nutritional research, trying to figure out what went wrong and how to fix the problem, and I have a few theories.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s difficult to pinpoint an exact place in history where our diet and our idea of\u00a0healthy eating<\/a> got off track, but if you really want to know, I\u2019d say everything went wrong when the government started to tell us what to eat.<\/p>\n

You see, the nutritional sciences are full of inaccuracies. It\u2019s very hard to use the current scientific method to study the effects of a diet on a population. You can\u2019t use a placebo-controlled double-blind study (like they do with drugs), because you can\u2019t create a placebo food. Most dietary studies are simply weak, they use a small group of people and they rely on their memory for their data.<\/p>\n

What did you eat for lunch last Wednesday? Do you remember? Now try to remember everything you ate last month and you get an idea of some of the inaccuracies found in the nutritional sciences.<\/p>\n

Conflict of Interest?<\/h3>\n

Health Canada and the FDA are trying their best; they really would like us to be as healthy as possible. It\u2019s in their best interests for\u00a0North Americans to be\u00a0fit, healthy, and age well. The Canadian Food Guide and the American Healthy Plate are\u00a0based on the current trends in nutritional science (notice I used the word \u201ctrends\u201d<\/em>), and unfortunately a nice big splash of politics.<\/p>\n

For example, the Canadian Food Guide is designed primarily by an advisory committee of 12 people, made up of industry professionals including employees from:<\/p>\n