You Know You're Primal When....

You are telling your daughter a story at bedtime and this is how it goes..... Once upon a time there was a chicken.  This chicken was really hungry so it began the hunt for food.  Off in the distance it saw a grasshopper and immediately began pursuit.  Every time it got close the hopper kept hopping away.

This is the point in the story where my mind shifted but I had to reframe the story for my daughter, though it would still be a good lesson.  The following is where my mind went.

The chicken began to evaluate the energy expenditure required to capture the grasshopper compared to the energy provided from the grasshopper.  It was going to take him more energy to capture the grasshopper then she would get from the grasshopper.  So like a smart chicken, she backed off and looked for an easier source of food.

The actual story I told my daughter ended up with a frog eating the grasshopper after a long pursuit by the chicken and a little girl trying to catch the grasshopper to bring in for creepy crawly week at pre school.  Instead the frog volunteered his services for creepy crawly week and the chicken went to the store for some food.  The store was across the road....and was the reason the chicken had to cross the road.

It's a good lesson to learn though and a really simple way to think about food.  That's how it was done.  We evaluated how much energy it would take to collect food and if the energy expended outweighed the energy from the food....it was let go.   But now....it doesn't take much energy to go to the store and buy food for the week.  It also doesn't take much energy to get off the couch and go to the kitchen and eat that food.  And since 80% of the food bought from the store has added sugar, that balance has been shifted from an extreme lack of energy required to get food that has a ridiculous amount of energy aka calories and in most cases lots of added sugar.   It's not hard to figure out why one in 3 adults in America are obese.  Not overweight, OBESE.  This is the first generation where our kids aren't expected to outlive their parents due to a rise in obesity, type 2 diabetes and other ill effects of a poor diet and lack of nutritional education.

Have a great day!   Here's to your health!  It's because I care about you!