One of my nagging concerns about the Nutrition program I am currently enrolled in is that I won’t have enough nutrition information to help people when I graduate. Being the librarian/ex-librarian/avid reader that I am, I am spending much of my reading time on emotional eating, diet, and science of nutrition books. I want to read as many books as I can so I can help as many people as I can. I don’t think I am so unique as to believe that my life experience leaves me isolated. Why else would Facebook be so popular? I believe many people like me want to eat a little better, sleep a little better and live a little better. This is why I believe this school is great and why I can have a career helping people live their best life.
I recently finished Catching Fire:How Cooking Made Us Human. This book started out slow. I thought I would recommend it to raw-foodies, but 75 pages in I thought they would be offended. I kept reading and found it more and more interesting. By the end I really thought the author had a lot to say and wanted to engage in a dialogue with people who thoughtfully ate food. People who thought that the food they ate had meaning every day.
I find myself thinking about this book a lot recently in my life. Like why we eat cooked meat and what that means about portion size. (Cooking meat gives us more energy from the food so we need a LOT less.) We also lost our jaw strength and teeth sharpness in the evolution from habilines to homo erectus and so don’t have the ability to chew raw meat. Or the time really… I have loved learning more of the science behind our food and how the evolution of humans have brought us here. The ramifications of this evolution we are seeing now in a society that is over-weight and under nourished.
Read this book if you want to know more.
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