A lot has been said nowadays of how modern times are affecting the health of the general population, and we’ll try and give a concise summary of the main areas that you should focus on for a healthier lifestyle.
Eating Raw
Eating raw foods has been a drive of recent times, with a lot of focus being put into this area.
Reality is, people have been around for many thousands of year. On the grand scale of things, we only recently discovered fire, and how to cook and heat our food. Our bodies evolve slowly, and haven’t adapted to us heating everything we eat yet.
Heating or cooking food changes the natural state of the food cells, and nutrients are lost in the process.
This is applicable to natural organic foods, such as fruit and veggies. Some foods (mainly meat) have to be cooked to kill any potential bacteria and organisms, but this brings us to our next point.
Eat less meat
Again, think of our ancestors, the hunter-gatherers. When they hunted, they werent’ always successful. They didn’t have access to rifles and scopes that allowed them to shoot an animal a mile away. They had little bows and arrows and some cow poop to use to camouflage their human scent.
Which means times were lean – they didn’t eat meat every day. Our bodies aren’t used to being stuffed with meat two or three times a day. (or more if you snack on beef jerky in between)
Cut down on the number of times you eat meat. And cut down on the portion size when you do eat it.
Try and go for meat free days – ‘Meat free Mondays’ is catching on, try it!
Get more sleep
Modern times are messing with our sleeping patterns. Lightbulbs now means your body’s natural rhythm can’t rely on the lack of light to determine when its time to go to sleep.
Long hours at work means you get home late, want to spend time with the family, and the first thing to be sacrificed – is amount of hours spent sleeping.
There are so many distractions, TV, Computers, Video games, books… all of them offer so much more enticing thoughts that going to sleep, which means we are down to an average of 7 hours a night, which is below the minimum of 8 to 9 recommended hours.
The less you sleep, the less time your body has to restore and rejuvenate itself. Which leads to immune system deficiencies, which lead to health problems.
