Ancient Wisdom for a Healthy Modern Life

Ancient wisdom for healthy modern life:

The longest, healthy living individuals throughout history who lived to 80, 90 and even 100-plus years of age lived without suffering from obesity, diabetes, heart disease, dementia, osteoporosis or cancer.
They never knew the concept of good fats, bad fats, low carb diets, glycaemic index, or any other modern health.

What they were eating?

• The best available data suggest ancestors obtained about 35% of their dietary energy from natural fats, 35% from carbohydrates and 30% from protein. Saturated fats contributed approximately 7.5% of total energy.
• Now indian diet is made up of upto 60 to 70% of carbohydrates and most of it is refined carbohydrates where as our ancestors carbohydrates were complex non starchy like fruits and vegetables.
• Now there is phobia against fats since 1960. 
• All fats are not bad.
• Natural fats are healthy and it's required for good physical and brain health.
• Only processed oils are not good.

What was the timing of our ancestor's eating?

• They were mostly eating between dawn to dusk.
•  In ancient rome, dinner was called" cena" and was the main meal of the day. It was taken late in the afternoon or when the sun started going down.
• With no electricity, cooking dinner in the evening was not an option.
• Till 19th century, lunch was dinner and dinner was lunch.
• The whole day was structured differently than it is today.
• People got up much earlier and went to bed much earlier.
• Today people have dinner at 9 pm to 10 pm and snack in the evening.
• If we have 500 to 600 calories in dinner and goes to sleep after 1 to 2 hrs, where the energy goes? it gets stored as fat.
• Data says almost 70% of all ice cream is consumed after 6pm. 
• If we keep on snacking without giving 12 to 15 hrs rest to our gastrointestinal system, how it can be a healthy habit?
• It's against our evolution.
• Our environment has changed dramatically, from hunter-gatherer to agriculture to industrial revolution to technological era.
• In past 50-100 yrs we saw huge changes in food and eating habits.
• Our genes require 100s of 1000s of years to evolve haven't been able to keep up to sudden changes.
• Only 10% of our genes have adapted in past 10000 years 90% have not.
• Our genes haven't fully adjusted to these. 
• Discrepancy between genes and modern environment= chronic diseases like diabetes, hypertention, obesity and cancers.

In this campaign, I will further address ancient food secrets, habits, exercises which kept them healthy and how we can use them to modern life.

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