Diets are dead (thankfully!)
There’s already so much that we need to avoid in the average grocery store. There’s the ingredients that we don’t want in our system - seed oils, artificial dyes, pesticides, fortified grain, microplastics.
Friends are succeeding on this food, losing weight by avoiding this ingredient, consciously choosing more nourishing pre-prepped meals saving them so much time to get on with other things each day.
There’s so many diets and diet foods that it’s almost as though all food is now diet food. So what is food really anymore?! Overwhelm!
Let’s call that a good thing because now we can just go back to what our bodies know and thrive on. The answer has always been simple:
We can eat everything (we are scientifically omnivores!)
We can choose food our bodies need by simple methods that have always been available to us (think source, processing, cooking temperatures and just stressing cooking for scratch)
We can choose to not be slaves to our fridge and our snackitis.
We can enjoy meals that are both fast and nourishing without having to rely on a diet food label or delivery options whose ingredients are questionable.
(And we can use restrictive diets as a tool every now and then. But do we need to make life that much more difficult by eliminating entire food groups every time we shop?)
If one thing is true it’s that food is information (and there’s no shortage of information booming exponentially at our every turn especially in the grocery store!). Navigating that is all about your choices and those come from your values. Because the idea that food is only information is also so limiting. Food is so much more - it’s nutrients, it’s micronutrients (read spark plugs!), it’s textures and flavour adventures, it’s good times (think nostalgia but also right now good family laughs), it’s inputs that determine outputs from athletic pursuits to curiosity and creativity, it’s data, it’s joy and most important of all, it’s conversations between you and the next 3d printed version you’re creating of you by eating!
Luckily diet culture is imploding in on itself and in 2025, diets are officially dead. Food is back to being information that matters!!
