Deep Nutrition

Deep Nutrition will help you get healthier by explaining the danger of modern dieting techniques that are actually doing harm to your body and making you sick.

Though our grandparents have the accomplishment of living longer than any generation previously, we probably can’t count on the same fortune. Sure, medicine has come leaps and bounds, particularly with advancements like vaccines and antibiotics. But we are struggling with a new trend: age-related disease earlier in life.

These are things like heart disease, diabetes, and arthritis. Doctors are encountering people in their 40s dealing with issues that their parents didn’t have until much older. This is mostly because generations before ate more healthily. Their diets weren’t built around processed foods and they had much more natural food.

As food became more industrialized, we wrongly villainized saturated fats and cholesterol. We replaced natural things like butter, cream, and eggs with nutrient-poor options claiming to be healthy. One example of this is when we replaced butter with margarine, which is full of trans fats. These artificial fats are linked to many health issues, including atherosclerosis.

What’s more, we try to replace the nutrients we lack with supplements, which are not as readily absorbed. Rather than learning how to help people with the root of their problems, their nutrition, doctors are quick to recommend artificial supplements. The good news is that if we can skip out on the processed food of today and replace them with more traditional options, many of our wellbeing problems will fix themselves.

One particularly bad food you should avoid is vegetable oil. Regular vegetable oils such as canola oil have large amounts of trans fats, which disrupt the brain’s antioxidant system. Because the antioxidants can’t help as readily, oxidation occurs, meaning dangerous free radicals threaten your brain by damaging molecules. The brain contains polyunsaturated fats that are particularly vulnerable to oxidation. Another huge thing to avoid is sugar, which not only damages your brain but just about everything else too. You may have heard that sugar was found to be more addictive than cocaine when given to rats. We also can get highly addicted. We have designated receptors for sweetness, but the problem is that they were formed when people had barely any access to sugar. So our modern overexposure quickly can overload our brain and we become addicted. Sugar disrupts hormones in your brain that regulate the growth of neural connections. When these are lost, it can lead to dementia. Not to mention diets high and sugar are contributors to heart disease, diabetes, and cancer to name a few. Sugar is bad news all around the body. And more and more, our food is packed with it. To make…