Your grandma is trying to kill you
(and I honestly don't blame her)
Brain pain of the day:
What can you use to water the garden, paint a house and cut a steak?
Answer, as usual, at the end.
We’re gonna have a short one today, not ONLY because I’m trying to be efficient, but because cutting back is today’s theme.
If you grew up in Eastern Europe (and probably other places too), your parents were probably religious about you eating breakfast.
That was the easy part, though, because I’m fairly confident all of our grandmothers are serial killers and their weapon of choice is food. Try to tell your grandmother you don’t want a second helping of whatever amazing thing she’s cooking.
I’ll wait.
Great, now that you’re eating and reading, let’s change it up.
The status quo around food in the world is that you need a healthy diet. Ask most people and they’ll say a healthy diet means eating a lot of small meals per day, not too much processed food and generally try to diversify as much as possible.
Since food is a pretty global market, there’s a ton of research on the subject and even more “experts” proclaiming the secret to life, the universe and everything else is something they discovered or believe in.
If we go into specifics you might start hearing the keto bells ring and someone will pop up from under your bed saying “bro did you know carbs are the root of all evil?”.
But enough about Paleo Jesus.
Non-intermitting fasting.
What if all food was bad? What if food is what’s killing us? And I don’t mean processed food or GMOs or that sweet, sweet Häagen-Dazs ice cream that’s waiting for me in the fridge.
Even the healthiest most organic salmon in the world. It’s killing us.
What would happen if you reduced your overall caloric intake by 30%? You’d live longer, according to some studies.
Even the OG philosophers went at it and apparently had some good results.
See? Your grandma wants to outlive you. She’s feeding you all that and barely touching any herself.
But let’s circle back from killer grandmas.
Yes, food is amazing and our brain trains us to crave it. But what if we changed the way we look at it and treated every bite as a little bit of life down the drain? Like a necessary evil? After all, 100% of the people who eat food die.
Imagine a world where the common sense would be that you need to eat just the right amount of food so you have energy, but not too much because every extra bite shortens your lifespan. Wouldn’t diets & health fads look entirely different?
Food for thought.
(See what I did there?)
Short disclaimer: I’m not in any way, shape or form a nutritionist, this is a mental exercise, don’t overeat or starve yourself, peace out.
Answer: a hose, a paintbrush and a knife, of course.