Blood & Ink: Friday

Obesity is a starvation response. 

A lot of people don’t realize this, and it certainly doesn’t find its way into public discourse often. 

Obesity is the outcome of a starvation response.

The majority of modern, hyper-processed, mass-produced food lacks real nutrition.

Processed & junk foods are engineered to lack nutrition so they don’t trigger a satiety response (feeling of fullness) so that you can—and want to—eat more of them.

Even ‘healthy’ mass-produced food is grown in depleted soil, and selected for size instead of nutrient profile. 

Although you may be eating a good volume of food, your body is not receiving the nutrition it needs to survive/thrive.

Here’s what happens:

1. What is the definition of a chronic lack of nutrition? Starvation.
2. What does your body do when it’s starving? Signals to convert any food intake to long-term fat storage to protect you.
3. What happens with the food you eat? It gets stored as fat because your body is concerned it’s not getting enough nutrition (which is true).
4. What happens when your body stores a lot of fat? Obesity.

This is the real reason most diets work: people just start eating real, nutritious food again.

The body doesn’t have to convert everything to long-term fat storage. Food is utilized better, and fat stores are reduced. 

The obesity epidemic is not caused by an abundance of food, it’s caused by a lack of nutrition.

Eat real, whole, nutrient-dense foods, and you can eat as much as you want. 

Don’t starve yourself,
Eric Brown.

P.S.: What foods have the highest nutrient density and the greatest bioavailability (how easy it is to convert to fuel for your body)? Animal-based products. Organs, meat, dairy – in that order.