eat instinctively

I start from the premise that eating instinctively means eating healthy. I firmly believe that the body can transmit to the brain accurate information about its nutritional needs: a moderate amount of food and only foods that are beneficial to health.

Most of these natural feeding instincts, unfortunately, get lost along the way. Normally, during the growth process, adults project their unhealthy habits on children, offering them a range of foods that are not always the best options. As adults, we form our own eating habits, which are more or less healthy. We normally worry about our children’s eating habits, but their instinct is usually correct.

My theory takes as its starting point my own experience as a child, when I remember refusing foods that seemed too greasy or too fried. Observing the behavior of babies and children towards feeding can give us an idea of ​​what it means to eat instinctively. Young children who have not had time to be influenced by adults have their natural instincts to eat intact. Contrary to what adults think about food, they want to eat many smaller meals and only when they are hungry.

To support my thesis, I resort to the recommendation made by specialists in child nutrition. They advise feeding babies on demand, not imposing a schedule on them. Therefore, your internal programmer will generate a meal schedule according to your needs.

Thus, from children we learn that you should eat when you are hungry, and in the amount strictly required by the needs of the body. We shouldn’t be swayed by social cues like going out to eat with friends even if we’re not hungry, or taking a lunch break just because it’s 12 noon.

Another reason that supports the theory of a simpler way of eating is that it is based on the foods that nature offers. All living things find in nature what they need to sustain life. Theoretically, naturally occurring foods in their natural state should be enough to ensure a healthy existence. While I do not endorse any type of Paleo diet, we are bound to refer to the simple way of eating in ancient times. Modern and more complex diseases have developed in modern times. These include the increased incidence of tooth decay, allergies and various diseases of the digestive system, such as diverticulitis, most of which are closely related to modern diets. Man was not created for so many refined and super refined processed foods. Cooking, the great discovery, was just a means of making food more digestible. Today we live in an extreme version of the modern diet, rich in processed foods and prepared meals.

Eating raw foods, such as vegetables and fruits, in proportion to cooked meals is definitely healthier. It is also healthy to choose unrefined foods, as natural as possible.

We need to reconsider our diets and healthier ways of eating. But it is more difficult to re-educate ourselves and easier to acquire good habits from scratch. We must first forget everything we know, get rid of all our unhealthy habits and only then rediscover food. And it is even more difficult to resist the many temptations scattered around us.

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