In Superior Physical Shape: A Set Apart View of our Attitude Towards Nutrition

Not a week goes by in which I do not read, hear, see how it is recommended to eat healthy. The health insurances want to do more for the healthy nutrition of their members, doctors make recommendations, and the pharmacists have their own propaganda magazine that aggressively advertises a healthy diet - mostly through additional preparations available in pharmacies. "Nutrition experts" are also missionary in schools. In everyday life we encounter an army of nutritionists, doctors, naturopaths, natural healers, health advisers, life advisors, diet coaches, dieticians, healers, preventologists, shamans, yogis and and and. All with more or less well-founded training - and most of them with a mission: to convince people of the form of nutrition that they themselves consider to be the only right one.But also in the home environment there are attempts to establish nutritional models or parts of them as the only truth, ranging from half-hearted to fanatical-dogmatic. If the child only begins to cough or to bloat for no apparent reason, if a rash appears on the neck or red spots between the toes, the food is quickly diagnosed as the culprit. Wheat intolerance, too much fiber, too little fiber, too many carbohydrates, gluten, fats, histamines, too few gemstones in the drinking water.A flood of information is at the side of the interested party, as he/she always finds confirmation of this long-fermenting initial suspicion in one or the other reading. Studies are often used to argue, or statements by doctors, professors and dignitaries who are staring at their titles are quoted, often only in fragments and taken out of context in order to support their own theses. This book offers a unique prespective on "Nutrition" and not just healthy eating.