There are certain nutrients which are genetically essential to bring about healthy living. These essential nutrients need to be supplied to the body in-spite of the highly modern lifestyle changes to cope-up with good health.
Moreover, understanding the concept of a genetically congruent lifestyle aids in following a genetically congruent diet.
There are three points to understand the concept of a genetically congruent lifestyle:
1. Humans are genetically programmed for health.
2. Human body has specific genetic needs that must be provided by the lifestyle choices.
3. Lifestyle choices that don't support human genetic needs limit the health potential and promote weakness and chronic diseases.
Modern diets do not go along with our genetic requirements.
Avant-garde diet for antique genes
The genome of humans is still not genetically adapted to the modern diet of today. There has been a great dietary divergence since the agricultural revolution and this has been accelerating in recent decades.
With the advent of agriculture the dietary regimen also shifted thus allowing consumption of large amounts of grain, milk, and domesticated meat. This was followed by the Industrial Age (about 200 years ago) from when whole grains and sugar were refined. This massive shift form fresh foods to more processed foods has got us down to where we stand today-The age of modern fast foods and modern diseases.
The less we follow our ancestor's diet, the more we are exposed to chronic diseases such as Diabetes, Cardiovascular diseases, obesity and stroke.
Modern foods; Modern illness
Our ancestors were generally leaner, fit and were free of most chronic diseases. This was mainly because of their food habit which was an unprocessed, fresh and natural. Moreover they moved vigorously and daily.
Our genes are still in concurrency with that of hunter-gatherers and we are hunter-gatherers who never hunt and gather.
Our body the most complicated and majestic machine is now put on the wrong working process. As a result, the machine tends to break-down at a faster rate. This leads to an array of chronic diseases such as Diabetes, Obesity, Cardiovascular disease and stroke.
Modern Diet-Undermining human health
Over time, poor eating habits can affect your weight, cholesterol levels, blood pressure, insulin regulation, emotional health and your immune system reaping a bitter harvest such as heart disease, cancer, obesity, liver failure, kidney problems and other diseases.
The plethora of dietary regimen right from burgers and pizza to a variety of fast foods are the ones which tickles our taste buds but at the same time provide very less essential nutrients and give in more of the non-essentials such as simple carbohydrates, saturated and trans fats and so on. All of these have a negative effect on the human body.
The modern diet today is:
- Less in fiber, more in fat
- Less in starch; more in refined sugar
- Less in complex carbohydrates; more in simple carbohydrates
- Less in essential nutrients, more in non-essentials
Modern illness
The rapid lifestyle changes and the drastic shift from nature's diet have led to an array of chronic diseases. Most of the diseases today were not present in the last millennium.
Chronic diseases such as Diabetes, Obesity, Cardiovascular diseases and stroke rose up with the rise in modern food habits.
From this fact it is evident that these modern diseases can be prevented with simple lifestyle changes, such as shifting onto nature's diet or to the ancestor's diet.
Be a modern hunter-gatherer:
"Paleolithic diet-The diet that man has evolved on; the diet that is coded for in our genes is the one that will keep us as healthy as our ancestors and is the one that is essential for the present generation.
Suganya R. is a biotechnologist with immense knowledge in the
field of health and fitness. she is the co-founder of womensgalaxy.com
and has come out with numerous tips and articles for health and fitness.
This article talks about, the modern diet which does not suit our genes
and which must be replaced by the diet of our ancestors. To know more
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