Common Does Not Equal Normal
Filed under: General Health, Nutrition
One thing that I believe has become pervasive in this country is this idea that things that have become common, are therefore now “normal”. To my mind this could not be further from the truth. Eating the crappy Standard American Diet (SAD) is common, but it should be considered a normal diet. It is hardly full of any real food!
In addition, being overweight has become more common than not being so. Being overweight is not a physiological norm. Look at the data from our own country 30 years ago, and this was not the case. Look at traditionally-living societies, and it is anything but common. Diabetes is also becoming normal, but hardly existed at all in traditionally-living people.
I say this not to insult anyone, but to simply point out the fallacy that just because something has become common, it is now normal. I also point this out so that when you are looked at strangely because you eat whole eggs rather than just whites, or you consume full-fat organic dairy rather than fat-free conventional, or even because you choose to cook with butter (grass-fed of course) rather than vegetable oil I want you to realize that while these things may be uncommon now, in the history of human consumption these are very normal actions.
What passes for “normal” these days is far from. We have strayed very far from our physiological norms, mainly due to the now-common practices of eating excessive sugar, refined flour, industrial vegetable oil, genetically modified and/or heavily sprayed produce and crops, and inhumanely raised and poorly-fed animals. How did that become “normal”?
While it may suck to be at parties or social events where people question your eating habits because what and how you eat isn’t “normal”, I personally think you are much better off being rather uncommon and armed with the knowledge that while what and how you eat may not be common, it is certainly normal.
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Posted on February 4th, 2011 by Brian St. Pierre
11 Comments
February 4th, 2011 at 6:07 pm
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February 6th, 2011 at 11:28 am
Awesome post Brian, well said.
February 8th, 2011 at 7:44 am
Good post Brian. Who wants to be “common” anyway?
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September 11th, 2016 at 5:10 pm
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February 5th, 2017 at 2:01 pm
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