A Food Revolution

Food: it is essential to humans. It seems as though all of our time is spent on food; working to get money for it, buying it, preparing it, and eating it. Food is and always was so much more than just a source of calories and energy. It's able to comfort us and activate the pleasure centers in our brain. A long time ago, finding a fruit tree meant that a human could eat something they rarely came across - sugar. More often than not, our ancestors were eating meat, nuts, and vegetables, while only occasionally eating fruit, and even more rarely eating honey. Yet, in today's modern, industrialized world where sugars are widely available to us, humans have participated in the consumption of these pleasure center activators too more frequently than they should have and more frequently than our bodies were made for. Snack foods and junk foods are accepted in today's society as a socially acceptable thing to eat when someone is hungry.

I, however, disagree. Our bodies were not made for it; we evolved to be lean, not sluggish and full of sugars. Now, indulgence is not a bad thing every so often, because even our ancestors ate honey, which is essentially sugar syrup, but they ate it rarely and infrequently; they did not have beekeeper suits, so you can imagine why obtaining honey must not have been the most exciting idea. From now on, before you eat a sugar-filled snack, imagine that in order to obtain and then eat the snack, you have to endure being stung by very angry bees. If that doesn't stop you from eating junk food, then you are far beyond the help of a simple, humble blog. The mass production of junk food has led to numerous diseases in the world becoming prolific, and while we could all blame the food companies, we must also all realize that they are only supplying a demand. It is easier to blame others than to blame ourselves, but the fault of unhealthy food choices lies solely with us.

I say throw away the sugar-laden junk foods and eat something more substantially nutritious. I say we stop eating out of plastic bags or cardboard boxes and we eat a hot meal off of a plate. I say we stop indulging so much in large portions of food and we start eating less; we too often smother the fire instead of stoking it. As of late, there has been a surge of increasingly healthy foods being produced and it could not have happened any sooner. I smell a revolution in the air, and I only hope it occurs soon.