Primal Primer 13 (Nutrition)
It is only in recent history that food fabrication has removed nutrition from its natural and pristine source. Our ancestors did not require food labels or proudly displayed badges on packaging to know if something was for human consumption or not. Meat hunted, berries picked, and tubers dug up were exactly as they appeared: nourishing natural fuel.
Far departed from these times, today we are accosted with unsurmountable options when modern hunting and gathering in grocery or online platforms. And let’s face it, most of these options are highly fabricated, designer foods meant to tug at ancient instincts of taste satiation while creating patterns of addiction. Reliable side effects of mass produced packaged foods that should be listed include massive alternations of the human endocrine and immune systems: affecting insulin, cortisol, estrogen, testosterone, epinephrin and many more.
Carefully Exam Food Labels
Before purchasing edible consumer packaged goods, read & assess the back label. Just as one wouldn’t purchase a book prior to reading the back synopsis, so too should be your approach when choosing food. As you learn more of macros and develop goal specific intentions, your ability to efficiently “Pre-Approve” back of package nutrition facts and ingredients will become second to nature. Your brain will naturally catalogue your own non-negotiable not consumable foods and ingredients. This habit of selection becomes especially hardwired as body composition improvement, performance, and overall increased subjective well being reinforces these negotiations.
~Cave Implementation~
Habituate reading labels of all items that go into your body. Start with the nutrition and end with the ingredients. If the ingredients appears straight from the periodic table, opt out and forage alternatives. Seek pedigrees of certified organic, non-GMO, gluten free, and grass fed (if meat). Never forget that you really are what you eat. Your fuel, your muscle, your cells, and thoughts are all highly influenced by what you eat; carefully guard what you are made of as your life depends on it.
Let Food Be Thy Medicine.
