If Only I Could Find the Perfect Miracle Diet
Tuesday, July 27, 2010 at 10:00AM 
Whenever I see an interesting or controvertial health article in a newspaper or magazine, I cut it out to write about at a later date. Today, I reached into the ol' filing cabinet and pulled out a little opinion piece from a local paper in October of 2007.
The title of the article was:
Health Myth of the Month: "If only I could find the perfect miracle diet, I could keep the weight off."
Initially, the article makes some good points. The author acknowledges that all those fad diets we see today are not the answer to our search for amazing health. She writes:
"The key to dieting is to redefine the word... if we thought of diet in the traditional sense, as simply a way of eating on a daily basis, then we would be met with more success."
So far, I like where this is going. Eating a healthy diet is more than grabbing a few different items during your trip to the grocer, or adding some trendy new supplement to your usual routine. It means living a healthy lifestyle. For most people, this means tossing aside their old ways and starting anew with a fresh outlook.
However, the author falls short of drawing the right conclusion, writing:
"Sorry folks. I know many people wish this were true, that the perfect diet exists, ...it just hasn't been thought up yet."
This really is backwards reasoning. Nobody needs to "think up" the perfect diet. It already exists.
We don't need scientists to dream up uber-foods and design them for us. Frankly, they don't know what they're looking for and they wouldn't know when they got there.
The more people think about science as the answer for finding a healthy diet, the further they get from the solution. This isn't a coincedence. The human body is beautifully suited to eat the foods that have always been naturally abundant in our environments. Fresh, raw fruits and vegetables.
Of course, there isn't a lot of money in marketing the idea of eating this way. Food producers make a lot more profit on processed, packed food-products. Hence, that's where all the marketing effort goes. But following the trail of money doesn't benefit you. It's only good for them.
Sadly, this sort of rhetoric is typical in the health industry today. I'm not saying that the author was trying to pitch a sale to her readers. She wasn't. But that's my point. The marketing of the food processors and supplement producers has permeated society so deeply that even those who are skeptical of them can't find their way out. Somewhere along the line, people lost track of a basic principle about food. It's already here.
What I'm saying is this: Keep your wits about you. Whatever you do, don't get caught up in all the hype about superfoods, supplements, or any other health products. As we can see, it's far too easy to do. Finding out what's good for you shouldn't be a challenge. The only reason it seems so tough is because, whether we noticed it or not, we've accepted the notion that healthy food needs to be engineered. It doesn't.
Last time I looked, fresh fruits and vegetables are already out there. The trick is to stop running away from them.
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Reader Comments (6)
hi Mike!
first of all i would like to say about this post - You have spoken like a true raw-foodist. thumbs up.
I totally agree with your points, as, well, it is simply the truth. any way you try to go around it, there is food, and then there is the rest. anything that is not naturally growing, and has to be manufactured is not food.
One suggestion i have, and reading your "about" page gives me the idea you have been through that - is Elimination diet. I think, for me at least (and a bunch of other people i know and advise) this is what made the difference. Fasting, cleansing the system, then eating different foods finding out how our stomach reacts to each one.
wow.. your post here drew up a lot of words from me :)
anyway good luck and keep writing!
Ido
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