Protein and the Rule of Three - Part 2

Why is it that not a single, viable protein supplement exists? Apparently it's harder than putting a man on the moon!

Taste and Survival

The concept of "Taste" is widely misunderstood. When we speak of taste as a food determination, taste is not just about pleasure, it is not just about sensual satisfaction, but rather taste is our first line of defense against consuming rancid foods. Once the body is detoxified and chemical free, taste will help us guard against eating degraded or highly processed, chemically-loaded foods. Once the body is used to eating only natural, low glycemic foods, when we take a bite out of a rancid or a highly processed-high glycemic food, our newly heightened sense of taste rejects the rancidity or the chemicals or the excess sugar and every fiber in our being screams, 'Spit it out!'

A heightened sense of taste allows us to appreciate and detect balance. Taste gives us an indication of what's missing what needs to be added, if you suffer from acidity, taste will lead you to alkaline-based foods. If your sense of taste is attuned, you will tend to crave what it is you are missing most. If, for instance, your body is depleted of sodium due to excessive sweating after exercise, you will crave for salty food, and if you won't satisfy this craving, it will haunt you with chronic cravings for "something" until you finally provide your body with the missing salt.

If you train the body machinery, it will become attuned and in touch with your needs. For example, many people are unknowingly deficient in zinc and if that person takes a zinc lozenge it will taste delicious! Once that same body is loaded with zinc, ingesting zinc goes from tasting delicious to nauseating. This is the definition of being physiologically attuned. The point is we have amazing survival mechanisms that need be tapped into. Of course the attenuation is crushed and destroyed by continual indulgence in processed foods, drinks, or chemically-loaded nutritional supplements. By losing our primordial sense of taste we've lost our first line of defense against consuming rancid and harmful food. Our sense of taste nowadays is completely overused and overwhelmed. We habitually consume overly processed, overly sweetened or overly salted foods. The solution is to exorcise these modern "foods" and return to a diet that is based on consumption of primal, elemental foods low on the food chain, foods that have been around for eons, foods that our primordial ancestors consumed before modern factory foods were invented, foods that fit our genes. In my opinion nothing points out the problems we face more dramatically than looking closely at the so-called sport, health, fitness and diet industry.

Coming next in Part 3: Sport, health and diet products.