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Diet cults vs. HOW to prepare your food that your DNA and your body intends for you to eat
7 min readJul 1, 2019
I just finished reading the book “Diet Cults”.
I mostly hated it, especially when he is elaborating on his non-cult cult rules… ugh. Just as unnatural as the diet cults he criticizes.
What is most striking in all the diet-cults, to me, is their ignorance of the fact that food, unless it is prepared in a tasty, mouth-watering way, isn’t nourishing for most people.
Food prepared and offered pleasing to the mind is not nourishing, not edible for the body.
I had two health calls in the past two days, and both people ate in a cultish way. In their mind they ate for health. What they shared were these:
- Their essential nutrients were not fully supplied to the body, even though the foods they ate had them… this is what the article is about!
- They ate according to someone else’s idea of healthy eating.
- Both had a family member…