Food is where I first started questioning everything I had been taught about health.
We live in a time where most of what fills supermarket shelves is no longer real food in the way humans have eaten for most of history. We eat products made in factories rather than meals prepared from ingredients. Additives, flavourings and stabilisers have quietly replaced nourishment and we now consume thousands of synthetic substances that did not exist a century ago.
Reading Ultra-Processed People by Chris Van Tulleken helped me understand how much this shift matters. For most of human history, food was seasonal, local and simple. In just a few decades, we were told to fear fat, to replace it with sugar and refined carbohydrates and to trust low-fat processed foods instead.
At the same time, farming changed. Soil was depleted, animals were confined and food became cheaper but poorer. I noticed how these changes affected my energy, my weight, my mood and my long-term health.
Food can quietly damage the body over time, but it can also be one of our most powerful forms of daily support when we return to it with care and awareness.
I could write about food until the end of time. This is not all there is to it. More on food is coming soon….