Does anyone else get the feeling we are all obsessed about foods in this world today? We debate and argue about getting all the right balance and all the right ingredients by eating a very wide variety of foods. It seems to me we have a glut of food in a glut of variations and it's brought us to a strange place.
75 years ago most people had no refrigeration and most foods were grown in the summer and canned for winter use. Root cellars held veggies over for winter use and animal meats were canned like veggies and fruit. But only the very fortunate had enough to really last them until the next harvest came in. They ate very restriced amounts and variations over the winter months.
No one every heard of eating fruit in the winter if it wasn't canned (with a ton of sugar included). Often you heard the term "the meal months" and that was a time at the end of the season, before the harvest was ready, when folks lived on what amounted to oatmeal porrage.
My ancestors lived exclusively on potatoes and so did many in Finland and France and other countries. They added in a wee bit of cabbage and maybe an onion if they were lucky. These people, as long as the potato was available to them, were completely healthy and had healthy children....and lots of them. They often lived to be 80 years old without much illness affecting them.
Do you think we are a bit obsessed with all this food issue? We load our cupboards and eat a grand variety of veggies, friut all year round, meat of all sorts and cuts.......and we live in fear of not getting the balance right. Everyone accusses everyone else of eating a very poor diet and we blame every ill known to man on the food we eat....do you think maybe God planned this thing a bit better and if we eat reasonably of the good foods provided for us that we might all be just fine and have no need to worry?
If we didn't eat TOO MUCH food we would not have the weight problems we face and struggle with........maybe you really can have too much of a good thing and we humans are doing that in this generation? Are all the vitamins and suppliments necessary or are we just a whole world of silly worry warts?