“On Paleo Silliness : A Dietary Thoughts Flow Write”
The paleo diet and self identified paleo lifestyle in the real world looked at with honesty is quite a silly thing.
The only people I’ve seen eating all paleo and fad like are upper middle class, live in the city, and are sterile.
Is it paleo to live in a city?
How about to be childless?
Both counts are not a check.
In reality my observations of those who identify as paleo is that they’re just as silly as strict vegans.
Both groups are spending money out the whazoo to eat an organic and rigid diet…only available in the modern world…AND not the most nutritious overall.
While both tend to be sterile and living in the city.
Me? Our civilization’s food chain is a cornucopia of abundance, a blessing from God.
Yeah you can waste mental effort sweating the superiority of raw organic grass fed milk versus homogenized whole milk from the store…or you can realize a gallon of sound nutrition from the cow’s udder (though heated up before plastic bottling and purchase) can be purchased 24/7 for about $2.50 less than 15 minutes from your front door.
My view is that a mixed macro meat heavy omnivorous diet is the way to go.
A meat heavy omnivorous diet is the apex of diets, the best for robust, healthy human development.
This allows me a lot of play in dietary choices while lacking in restrictions.
Thankfulness :
I’ve come to look at it in the sense of the dietary choice (historically lack thereof) afforded the peasantry.
Let’s face it. When you are not a billionaire, this means that despite your freedoms that you are in the peasantry…never historically outside of tribal settings has the lower classes eaten so well… especially without significant effort in gaining that food.
It’s all grown, harvested, raised, slaughtered for you!
(Even put in pretty packaging.)
Why today alone I ate two forms of meat. Meat! The sustenance historically banned by penalty of death outside of rare and infrequent circumstances to the commoner.
(I also had dairy and grain with that meat, even chocolate! A product from another continent thinking historically. Ain’t the supply chain an amazing thing?)
Bringing home the bacon was a luck of the draw between the entirety of parishioners historically. Most went home to oat or wheat gruel.
Food was seasonal! Yet as I type I can see both avacado and fresh apple.
My water was in a plastic bottle, and while the media would lead me to be deathly afraid of cancerous chemicals leaching out from the same…I have not contracted a deadly stomach virus during the act of hydration.
Diet? Food?
In the modern world we’ve got it pretty good.
There are stores selling sustenance everywhere.
It’s all quite affordable.
The government will even give you a plastic card from which you can eat aplenty for free!
Produce the world over makes it to our shores. We can eat as varied a diet as we please.
Within five minutes I could be eating multiple types of meat, grain, dairy, fruit, vegetables. It’s all available, it’s all here!
Our food access is so good that instead of starvation issues we have society wide issues of obesity!
Everyone can eat as well as they choose!
Any medieval peasant surely would call this heaven. Mechanized horses, grain aplenty, access to meat…they’d trade places in a second.
There is much to be thankful for. We are truly blessed.
In America you’ll never starve!
We have food here!
Persistence & Tenacity