Humans likely never made a meal from algae or blade
grasses, and yet they are promoted by certain factions within the optimum health
culture as optimal sources of nutrition. Other refined fractionated
"foods" fall into this category also. I'm of the opinion that
nutrients removed from the host source are tremendously compromised, and when
consumed "in extremis" (as pills, potions, powders, and "supplements"
of all kinds), so that they form some significant portion of our daily diet, can,
contrary to wishes, dreams, hopes, and claims, actually become counterproductive
to health.
It is also my opinion (but not alone on this) we are not biologically adapted or
meant to consume "concentrations" of whole foods as part of a daily
routine, nor, in particular, are we adapted or meant to consume concentrations
of substances that have never functioned as whole foods in the pre-technology
era from which we evolved.
I also believe science is gradually showing us this, but
it will be a long time coming for several reasons: one, it is a less significant part of
the reason there is increasing discomfort and disease among us, two, "the mindset
and promotional activities" of purveyors of "magical" pills, potions, powders, "supplements and medications" of all kinds, because, as Upton Sinclair famously said
"it is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary
depends on his not understanding it", and three, there are times
concentrations (medications essentially) are helpful as intervention measures,
which has the potential to confuse things tremendously. If a little is
good, a lot forever is better, right?
Wrong. To try to live on concentrations and medications is
asking for disaster, as we are increasingly seeing. Alas, the technological dream
of pop a pill and live forever is not coming to fruition, but fruit (and vegetables)
are (imagine that).
Yes, it turns out consuming high quantities of whole
fresh foods, plants in particular (it is increasingly evident), along with vigorous
movement of the body, is the only path to health. So why then is it so bleeping
hard to do, and maintain?
We are conditioned by the era we are born into. It turns
out many of the conveniences and pleasures of technology are counterproductive
when health, long term everyday comfort, and high functioning is the goal.
Collectively, they form the pleasure trap, which we do
not see from an instinctual standpoint, the trap is effectively invisible to
us. Which is the reason the book "The Pleasure Trap" is potentially
so beneficial, it reveals "the trap" (hiding in plain sight) to us in
very clear terms.
