Ying and Yang

America has felt the shock and consequences of mass produced foods. This rippling effect will have terrible impacts on the medical care America already struggles with. Certainly enough Norman Borlaug would have not foresaw such a regression in American nutrition: Overnutrion. City life changes the way we eat. The average American eats out more than 10 years ago. This culture of workaholics has left a dent in the nutritional intake of Americans. Why make your own food when conveniently enough there is some fast alternative. This is the economical thing to do, right? What is the quality of your food? Are you really getting your money's worth? What if you were to find out that there is a culture out there that only consumes fat, very little amount of grains and starches and their vitamin intake and heart disease rate is plainly said, better than ours. These people are our distant neighbors in the northwestern parts of Alaska. The Innuits, and their notable paradox: high fat intake and very little rate of cardiovascular disease.

So, how is this even possible? How are they able to consume such a gargantuan amount of fats and remain thinner than the average Houston citizen? Step back for a bit, and look at what you are eating. Ok now come back here when you are done.

Glad to have you back, did you notice something in your food? Probably not, you might have thought something like: "My food is not a problem to me, I work out."

Well, the Inuit have quite the interesting array of cuisine. Their diet is all fat, from seal, walrus and other marine animals that have juicy scrumptious amounts of fat enough to make your mouth water for hours on end. Now you are thinking why does this matter? Back to the previous point made, what is the quality of your food? Have you ever asked how the actual ingredients that have come together to become my meal what is their journey? What practices put together the foods I have now in my hand?

Biochemists and Nutritionists have come together and attempted to put their resources together and come up with the solution. The fats in our diets are saturated trans fats the factory produced livestock animals with only a limited diet of grain have gone through obesity and butchered to harvest their flesh.

The Inuits are unfortunately limited to what they can eat, the frigid temperatures do not allow them to have any fresh fruits and vegetables. They must engineer for themselves the essential nutrients necessary for human function. Some of these are integrated into the fats of the animals they eat. Some vitamins are readily dissolved in fats due to hydrophobic structure composition. These fats are close to getting multivitamins with caloric content. Although fats, they must not be forsaken like they are done here in the States. It is through this very mechanism that they are able to survive and thrive as human beings. They are hardworking and always active.

It seems that the closer we are to the city, the higher the probability we will succumb to the temptations of lifestyle choices detrimental to our aging. Will you forsake the life in the city, with LCD galore, cars, air conditioning, and money for a better quality of life? Do you support the mass production of obese animals? You are what you eat correct?