For thousands of generations, parents taught their children about the dangers of living in the wild. You and I are on this planet because parents have been successful with this most crucial duty. Fail to teach your children well throughout the ages, and your child would've ended up as tiger food. Those natural predators, the kind that viewed humans as a potential meal or snack (depending on the size of the said predator), required learning skills of avoidance, fighting, and retreat. These skill sets sharpened instincts, taught primary to advanced avoidance techniques and created droves of highly adapted and skillful children. Children that survived. So powerful was the instinct not to become prey that children of ancestry honed these skills throughout their lifetime.
Yep, brutal, accurate, and no less relevant in today's world. The differences from ancient to modern survival, however drastic, are no less critical. Those dangers once lurking in the jungles, forests, savannahs, deserts, mountains, and islands have become predatory corporations looking to co-opt your child's preferences and destroy their health. The predators can be found on every screen, billboard, menu, magazine, and movie. The meal ticket is no longer food for the tiger but profit for the entity. As Dr. Mark Hymann states correctly, "The food industry has figured out how to hack the American mind and body, purposely designing food that is highly addictive-sugar and processed food to be exact." These food-like-products are highly corrosive to our health. Sugar is one of the top causes for chronic disease, is highly addictive, and toxic.
So, is a little ok? Well, was a proper survival technique to exercise caution and awareness only most of the time when the tiger's where roaming free in your neighborhood? I think not. Drop your senses for a moment and, well, you get the idea. So, parents of 2023, beware of the genuine dangers lurking down every aisle, every store, and restaurant. Practice vigilance. Teach your children about the bona fide risks and threats of the food-like-products, corporation's malicious marketing, and fast food fiction. Just us our ancient ancestors did an excellent job to ensure a bright and lively genetic outcome for us, our choices in food today, and the impact of those choices, are transgenerational and profoundly important. Every. Single. Choice. In other words; the decisions we make in diet today influence the health of our children, our children's children and on and on for generations to come.
Whoa, that's heavy. Fret not dear reader, for there are better options for all of those mass-marketed food wannabees. What's impressive is that these options, substitutes if you like, are better for you, tastier, richer and juicer than anything some lab full of chemists can cook up for you. It is time to re-cultivate that feminine sense of nurturing and nourishment, which offers the ability to discern between real life and plastic imitation. And yes, we are living in a time where food separates into these two categories. Sharpen the awareness, cultivate intuition, ask formidable questions and make courageous choices. For the Tiger has become the Twinkie.