Chapter 166

“We are overfed and undernourished. Overstimulated, overscheduled, and lonely.”

So what are we putting in our bodies? Twinkies! Little Debbies! Donuts! Potato chips. These highly nutritious concoctions of chemicals that we call food, which likely have no actual food in them at all, are not giving anyone any nutrition at all. And surprisingly nutrition is actually the point of eating. But when we use the 1000 reasons for eating that we favor, other than the nourishment of our bodies, then we usually find ourselves overfed - belly full of non-nourishing stuff. So we are sated, but our bodies are still hungry for the vitamins and minerals we need. This paradox is killing us. 75% of the reasons we die are connected to this precise issue.

The second paradox is that we focus on entertainment and work to the exclusion of relationships. But we need relationships far more intensely than we need the overstimulation of movies and video games or the overscheduled overclocked lives of the working world climbing the corporate ladder. While of course we need to provide for ourselves and our families, and of course we need to disengage and relax occasionally, these have become our reason for living, rather than the relationships that feed our souls.

Why do we do this to ourselves? It is the path of water as Tao Lutz said, it follows the path of least resistance. It flows downhill. It seems, so do we. We live downhill, down the path of least resistance, down the easy path of the moment. This in turn, leads us to a life we don’t want. While it seems like the logical “easy” choice 10,000 times, the cumulative effect is ruining our lives and our bodies. We have to stop and chose better. Make a better choice. Live a better life, even if it is not the easiest.