Back to our roots.

Human beings are a result of a never ending process of adaptation. But even though today we spend endless hours seated in cubicles under florescent light with little or no physical activity, no sun shine and fresh air exposure, and eating a diet based on processed food and added chemicals of all kind, we still share the same DNA than our ancestors from a few thousand years ago, before the fast food and the drive through were invented.  There were times of feast, when the weather was appropriate for hunting and searching freely for whole foods, and where every source of calories gathered by our ancestors, meant to carry on their genetics, and their bodies learned to store energy for the winter. The winter was a time of famine, with a much lower chance of food to be gathered, and where the stored energy was one of the main factors for survival.

Nowadays, our bodies are still trying to survive, but the environment is different. Food is everywhere, and with no or minimal physical activity, we have endless access to not only food, but also to artificial products made in a way so they appear to be real food, but with no nutritional value for our bodies. When we eat in access calories, our bodies would store them because it thinks we will go through a famine, but this never happens, so we keep storing and storing energy. This is one of the main reasons we have so many health problems nowadays.

We should stop for a second and ask ourselves why do we have to memorize books that are eight inches thick when we go to medical schools, we are trying to learn all the reasons that we die and the more than 12000 diseases that we suffer even though we are supposed to be the most evolved living organism in our planet, and wild animals with no interaction with humans, die of less than 10 diseases. I wonder why 400 hundred animals in the forest can drink from the same pond and they are perfectly healthy, and here we are, sterilizing our water and drinking it out of bottles and we are all getting sick. Every twenty five seconds one of us dies from heart disease. One out of three of us will get cancer in its lifetime. This doesn’t happen in nature.  We keep moving farther from it. We life in boxes, move around in machines, we go home and look at machines, we purchase our food from machines, and every once in a while we decide to go out to the country to “get close to nature”, without realizing that we are nature. As part of it, we are governed by natural laws.

Let’s rethink our behavior and start running to nature with open arms, and let it embrace us with its wisdom. It’s time to teach our children to appreciate the value of whole foods, sun shine and clean air and water. Let’s all join forces to save our health and the health of our planet.