When I talk about the Western diet I am specifically referring to big food practices which the American food industry took from the playbook of Big tobacco and the Chemical industrial giants like Dupont which basically say's intentionally kill people if there is profit in it then lie about it.
I am not a conspiracy theorist, what I am talking about is the use of sugar and other additives like known carcinogens to addict people to toxic substances that kill you.
The worst thing about big food is that they drive the leading cause of mortality in the world, and the U.S. politic is in on it.
Whereas when the Surgeon general turned on Big Tobacco and issued health warnings, we have known dangerous foods with labels on promoting them as health foods....and the worst of it is that they target children the hardest.
Europeans as we all know in regions like the Mediterranean are some of the longest lived people and in good health in the world.
The thing about the good old days and eating your own veges is that you had to go out and dig, and garden for hours in the day which in of itself is arguably even better for you than the food you harvest.
Just on Mediterranean food, even though we have known that Extra Virgin olive oil is good for you for a long time, in recent times it has become even more apparent that it could be the best food there is if you are going to change one thing in your diet (it is the one expensive food I buy and do not skip).
I try to have two tablespoons of EVOO daily (on my bread in a the form of a Salsa made with super hot chilies for their metabolic boosting properties layered over Greek Yogurt....yes another Mediterranean super food and another probiotic Fermented food).
People in my grandparents time still had a lot of heart disease issues because of the lack of knowledge around saturated fats from the traditional meat and three veg diets (not demonizing any of those foods, rather we all know it is about how you cook it and how often you eat it).
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