[Gem]

There are only two things: what you eat and, what you do.


From that simple, true statement we deal with complex people who live within environmental conditions which arn't exactly conducive to optimal well-being.


As a result of living 'normally' in consumer society, we see trends of increasing rates of obesity and lower rates of fitness in younger and younger people over time, which has tragic effects on individual and social well-being.



The main issue is people are not taught about food and nutrition as part of their regular school education, nor are they taught about the physiology of physical movement, let alone how food interacts with physiology as the energy that supports the moving body. People are disempowered by this lack of critically important knowledge.



Our doctors are taught about the drugs that assist with ailments, but are not taught about nutrition and physiology in medical school. That is bizarre considering that they know that the majority of diseases they treat are diet/sedentary related.

Doctor will prescribe medicine if you are ill, which is good, but it doesn't make anyone healthy and strong. That depends of what you eat and what you do.


The foundational aspect of what you eat is calories. Calories is energy. What you eat determines how much energy goes in, and what you do determines how much energy goes out. On the foundation of 'calorie balance' a nutrition plan can be established.


I hope to discuss on this thread so that people will learn what they should have been taught in school, what doctors should have been taught in med school. People need to know because they will be empowered by it. This is very important, because in a society which has terribly adverse trends regarding obesity and fitness rates in younger and younger people, the scale of harm is unimaginable!