What motivates our dietary choices?
Let's say for the last 5 years your doctors visits have reaped the same result: high cholesterol, high blood pressure, over weight, diabetes and lets throw in asthma!
Sounds like alot right? But is it ENOUGH to have you change your lifestyle? If you really like chocolate cake, what's gonna stop you from eating it? Who's thinking, that one piece of chocolate cake is really all that harmful? We have selective memory. We don't think about how many "one" pieces of chocolate cake we've had over the years over the amount of carrot sticks!
It seems to me that unless a life threatening EVENT occurs, all the warming signs in the form of numeric physiological tracking does nothing for a person....just as the term "numeric physiological tracking" does nothing to get us closer to really understanding the problem. Who understands all those bloodwork numbers anyway...other than the doctors themselves?
So lets throw in the mix another term to help confuse things even more. What about the bioenvironmental factors (those little external forces)? Lets say as a child your parents were really good parents and to show their sweet affection for you they would bake your favorite dessert....chocolate cake. Seems harmless enough, right? Chocolate cake now is no longer just a yummy treat. It represents all the love and affection of your youth! Every yummy bite is jammed packed with sweet memories. A constant reminder that you are special and you are loved. And you are special....every clogged artery, labored breathing, imbalanced sugar insulin ratio, and fat cell in your body is special.
How do we "put the fork down"?!
Why wait until things get so bad they land us in the ER? We suffer...our loved ones suffer. Somewhere a shift in thinking is necessary. Its not only our life that is affected. Taking care of ourselves and eating healthy is a consideration not only for us but for the ones we care about the most.
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