As they say in quantum circles, randomness is only a lack of information.
But we can't get enough information in bodies that evolution worked on over zillions of years. Much less the individual changes as different peoples spread over the globe and ate different, local, stuff. Then adapted in different ways.
I see
some recognition of
how food works happening in the population. Had a lovely brunch Sunday, first time in MONTHS for what used to be a routine gathering. But my heart aches to see how much one couple is relying on modern medicine and pills, another had a scare and is willing to adjust their diet to Mediterranean, and the two people who think they don't have to, yet.
It's a great place and I'm able to eat there without worry, but more and more, I can't eat the way they do, and I don't want to be the "ghost at the feast" so I don't say anything. But in my area, gluten free is easy to find in my little tourist town. And that's why. The bigger population is doing things to the restaurant where there are still actual cooks in the kitchen, and even local ingredients.
That tells me awareness of individual food needs/nutrition is growing, along with the explosion of autoimmune.
Just in the last twenty years look at the revolution in how we look at food. There's bad, as the increasing wave of absolute junk with healthy stickers plastered all over them.
But we also have new science in bioavailability, including the recognition of the food matrix, with its role in proper fuel and supplies. We haven't updated our vitamin RDA and maybe we should. Protein is finally getting its due as a macro-nutrient, for instance.
JEY and I are excellent examples of how wide the range is, because my macros and hers are so different, in terms of low carb flexibility. But we both avoid junk. I think that is the biggest and best first step anyone can take.
We've all been marketed to about "harmless indulgences" but that was
before they put
stuff in the food.
Before we knew they distorted research for decades.
Before we had 80% of the population suffering some form of metabolic derangement.
Judging from the brunch conversation, everyone is at least talking about their health. Thinking about it. It's the first step.
After all, these are the
civilians. They don't have the training or the motivation we do!