Are We Eating Responsibly?

A conversation with some of my friends got me thinking: are we really eating responsibly? Are we making a conscious effort to evaluate how the foods we eat affect our overall health? Are we so accustomed to eating unhealthily that snack and/or junk food companies have made us out to be predictable customers? To these questions, my reply is: perhaps. Maybe that was a little generous. One may feel inclined to say ‘no’ to the first question, ‘no’ to the second question, and, of course, ‘no’ to the last question.

You might ask yourself why this even matters. You might think I’m being dramatic. You might even say that this blog is predictable. If this is true for any of the preceding scenarios I’ve mentioned, my response is that your rationale is understandable. I do admit that this blog is predictable, but I’ll talk a little more about that later. Although I already knew that heart disease and stroke are the leading causes of death worldwide, I didn’t really stop to think what causes heart disease and stroke in the first place. One of my friends said that both stroke and heart disease are linked to fat blockage in your arteries. This stops the blood flow in the case of heart disease, and oxygen distribution in the case of a stroke. There’s probably more to it than that. I’m sure other causes incite these atrocities. I urge you all to look into the matter deeper. I know that I don’t want to die earlier than I could have because I ate recklessly. I’m not telling you to never touch a steak, chocolate bar, or canned pop again. I think some sort of balance in any person’s nutritional intake is the most important thing.

Earlier I mentioned how predictable this blog is. I would say the same thing to myself if I was reading this from your point of view (that is, of course, since you did not write this blog, and if you were not involved in the food conversation I’m referring to). Would you like to know how else this blog is predictable? If you answered ‘yes’ to this question, hooray! If you answered ‘no’ to this question, oh well – I’m still going to tell you. So much for freedom, huh? This blog is predictable because I think its content will fall upon an indifferent mind. You might say “he’s assuming that I eat a bunch of crap, anyways!” Maybe I am. I would love to be wrong about you. I would love to hear how you do care about the things you eat, and how you treat your body well. In order for you to prove me wrong, it would have to be the case that you are making an effort to eat your greens and your meats, to drink water relative to the amount of juice and/or other artificially produced liquids you may consume.

No one is advocating the perfect balance. That’s preposterous, isn’t it? Just try to remember that your body (or at least the automatically responsive and unconscious parts of it) won’t tell you what it needs. The conscious part of you has to do it. I would like for Wikipedia’s entry to change from heart disease and stroke existing as the leading cause of death worldwide to “undetermined” or to “too complex to ascertain”.