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Food and Health Fact #73
Fact #73: How to eat
By Matthew Rees
Food and Health Fact #73: How to eat
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This week's "food for thought" excerpt comes from How to Eat (2020), by Mark Bittman and David L. Katz, MD.
"Every animal knows how to eat, and only in humans (and the animals under their control) has this been perverted. In the last century or so, we've been led astray. And we're so far from our origins that it's proving hard to find our way back. Yet there's nothing more important: Food is the fuel that runs every function of the complex human machine. It is the source of construction material for the growing bodies of children and all the replacements adult bodies require on a daily basis. What we eat is crucial to the integrity of the nervous system, the balance of hormones, the function of our blood vessels, the responses of the immune system. If there was one thing we'd say, it's this: You don't want to eat non-food. Period."
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