Breakfast or “intermittent fasting”? The healthier…
In today’s video, I’ll show you how important it is to have breakfast every day and how breakfast affects daily fasting.
MODERN AGE AND INTERMITTENT FASTING
The era we live in was marked by a change in eating habits, and a key turnaround occurred during the 1970s. Fasting has been a part of humanity for thousands of years, but for the past 50 or more years it has been completely ignored. It is a very interesting link between the diet of modern man and the appearance of a large number of diseases that fifty years ago or more were not so much of a problem. Today we know very well what we get the most sick and die from. Thousands of years ago, fasting has been an integral part of our everyday life and eating habits. People fasted for a variety of reasons, whether it was religious ceremonies, cleansing bodies or preserving health. The practice of fasting was often represented in different cultures and religions around the world. However, with the arrival of modern times and the rapid industrialization of food, fasting is slowly disappearing from our lives. In the past, people usually consumed one to two meals a day. This was a common pattern of nutrition that was often aligned with natural day-night cycles. However, in the 1970s, dietary guidelines changed, and the food industry and marketers actively encouraged the consumption of multiple smaller meals a day. Here lies the power of large food companies and the incredible impact of advertisements on everyday man. The media, television, the Internet, newspapers have convinced us and still assure us that it is important to eat often and that we should not skip a meal. The new guidelines suggested consuming a minimum of five to six smaller meals a day to maintain our health and well-being. Unfortunately, these changes in eating habits did not bring the desired results. Instead, we are witnessing an alarming rise in all the most serious diseases of modern man. How is it possible that our opinion on nutrition has been reversed in just a few decades?
WHY ARE WE SICK?
We are getting sicker today. Just look at your children, relatives, neighbors. How many times have you heard or had a close person in a family who in their thirties or forties had a heart attack or stroke? Do you see your children or grandchildren eating really bad food all day long, sitting in front of the TV, surfing the Internet or playing games all day? You know how bad this way of life is, but we all continue to practice it. I have been working with patients since 2000. age. At that time, the largest number of sick people were aged fifty years and up. However, over time, I noticed an alarming trend: more and more people under the age of 50 or 40 came to my office for treatment. Today, in the countries of the developed world, this is a common situation. We are getting younger and sicker. The food we consume every day is full of empty calories and very poor in essential nutrients. Instead of giving the body a rest between meals to regenerate and cleanse it of toxins, we feed it continuously for sixteen to eighteen hours every day. The result is an extremely negative impact on our health, which is manifested in the numerous health problems we encounter. I believe that it is high time to educate ourselves what is good for our health, to follow eminent experts and scientists who tell us about the importance of less frequent and better feeding, but also the dangers of frequent overcrowding with bad food.
