Comments on: An Experiment (and Breakfast!) http://blog.ryonday.com/2009/01/14/an-experiment-and-breakfast/ Musings on Health, Fitness, Technology, and Life. Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:18:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Ryon Day http://blog.ryonday.com/2009/01/14/an-experiment-and-breakfast/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Ryon Day Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:57:19 +0000 http://blog.ryonday.com/?p=73#comment-7 You know, it just goes to show you that the human body is an amazing thing, adaptable to a wide variety of circumstances, even if those circumstances aren't "optimal". It's like boiling a frog. As children we're taught to eat a certain way, and our bodies eventually adapt to it as "normal". I have seen a study (but cannot recall where) that the difference between someone who is extremely healthy and someone who is extremely unhealthy could actually be seen as a difference in speciation! This means that adaptations to a bad diet are almost the equivalent of changing your phenotype to that of a different species! Absolutely amazing. The great news though, is that all the damage we do to ourselves is reversible. I can imagine a time when I wouldn't have told the story in this post, the food I ate would seem absolutely normal to me. Now I'm attuned to a more natural, healthy way of eating that is more in line with how (evolutionarily) we are supposed to eat. Looking back now, everything else seems so abnormal. I can't fathom at this point, for instance, sidling up to the taco bell and ordering from the .99c menu anymore. It seems strange and not even food to me. I think we would all do well to avoid the "bad touch" food that gave us the "cold pricklies", and strive to eat food that gives us the warm fuzzies instead :) You know, it just goes to show you that the human body is an amazing thing, adaptable to a wide variety of circumstances, even if those circumstances aren’t “optimal”. It’s like boiling a frog. As children we’re taught to eat a certain way, and our bodies eventually adapt to it as “normal”.

I have seen a study (but cannot recall where) that the difference between someone who is extremely healthy and someone who is extremely unhealthy could actually be seen as a difference in speciation! This means that adaptations to a bad diet are almost the equivalent of changing your phenotype to that of a different species! Absolutely amazing.

The great news though, is that all the damage we do to ourselves is reversible. I can imagine a time when I wouldn’t have told the story in this post, the food I ate would seem absolutely normal to me. Now I’m attuned to a more natural, healthy way of eating that is more in line with how (evolutionarily) we are supposed to eat.

Looking back now, everything else seems so abnormal. I can’t fathom at this point, for instance, sidling up to the taco bell and ordering from the .99c menu anymore. It seems strange and not even food to me.

I think we would all do well to avoid the “bad touch” food that gave us the “cold pricklies”, and strive to eat food that gives us the warm fuzzies instead :)

]]> By: Edgar http://blog.ryonday.com/2009/01/14/an-experiment-and-breakfast/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Edgar Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:29:15 +0000 http://blog.ryonday.com/?p=73#comment-6 This too has started happening to me... which is good, because it helps stay away from the bad show-me-where-it-touched-you-on-this-doll food I am known to eat. I can't believe I am going with what I just said. I'm terrible. ;) This too has started happening to me… which is good, because it helps stay away from the bad show-me-where-it-touched-you-on-this-doll food I am known to eat.

I can’t believe I am going with what I just said. I’m terrible. ;)

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