The Ideal Diet for Humans | Galit Goldfarb | TEDxWilmington

This is how I send my daughters to school every day to make sure they eat a healthy meal. Wow, it's not always easy for them. They come and ask me why we can't eat what everyone else eats and I say yes. more parents would know what I know so they would probably be serving this food in schools and we wouldn't have to send them food and that's why I'm here because I didn't always know what I know today but I'm sure I wish 1.9 billion people in the world Today they are overweight, that is, more than a quarter of the population and it does not only have to do with the amount of calories we eat.

Seven out of 10 people suffer from chronic diseases and 50% of the population takes medications. daily for the rest of their lives, but why? Because we are made to believe that what we currently eat is actually normal, but it is not. We adapt to society and allow big companies to sell us things we don't really do. want to eat I'm here to talk about the

ideal

diet

for

humans

, a

diet

that can transform your life, reverse your health, reverse diseases and help you lose weight naturally. Now when I say diet, I know it has some negative connotations with a lot of things. of people, so when I say diet I mean food choices and when I say

ideal

human diet I mean ideal human food choices for you and for you and for me and for all of us, so how do I know that This is the ideal human diet for all of us let me tell you a little about my story before I get into the details of the diet for 26 years of my life I have been searching for the keys to health and weight. loss at the age of 16 my parents divorced and my father who we stayed with had a new woman in her life and she cooked completely different foods than what I was used to, she used a lot of butter, cream and salt in the dishes her.

So tasty that I found myself growing up and this wasn't much fun for me as a teenager, my self-esteem was going down the drain and a decade and a half of the eating disorder bulimia soon followed. I hated myself and I hated my body, so I decided to go study more about nutrition and health and finished a Bachelor of Science in nutrition and biochemistry. I went on to study immunology and then I studied many diplomas in alternative medicine as well, but at the same time I was studying I also started a family and fate wanted my two eldest daughters to be born with the genetic defect that led them to suffer from severe mental retardation and epilepsy.

It was devastating for me, it was like my whole world collapsed on me and I just couldn't. I saw the light at the end of the tunnel, so I went to do what I do best and that is look for a solution. I went on to study Medical Sciences, completed my degree with distinction and decided to go and help more. people with the knowledge I learned so I opened a health and weight loss clinic but I soon realized that my clients, my daughters and I personally were only getting temporary results and this was very frustrating for me and then what happened may seem like another curse in my life. my life, but it actually transformed my life for the better dramatically at the age of 40.

I received a wake-up call. I was diagnosed with cancer. Now that I had four daughters, there was no way I was going to give up my life. I was going to heal myself and do it fast at that time I knew that the environment of our cells creates the destiny of our cells a healthy cellular environment will create thriving and healthy cells and an unhealthy cellular environment will create diseased cells that will soon die there There are many factors that influence our environment: the amount of sleep we have, the amount of stress we have, the amount of physical activity, the amount of toxins in our environment and our way of thinking, the way we think, our attitude, these influence in our environment. but there is one thing that actually creates the foundation of our environment and that is our food, very simply our food supplies our cells with the nutrients they need to thrive or it doesn't, in fact our diet is even more important as a factor. determinant of our health than our genes, because our environment actually determines which genes are expressed and which ones are not, and they also help us create a healthy gut microbiome, so obviously the environment of my cells and my diet.

I wasn't perfect, but what was I doing wrong with all my studying? I still didn't know which foods lead to health and which don't, and I discovered that I was not alone with this confusion, so I decided to do the research myself. I stopped my business for a period of two and a half years and read countless books, articles and essays from all scientific fields together and by putting together the information from all these different scientific fields, the ideal diet for

humans

initially emerged. I was thinking of calling it The Gorilla Diet because I thought that we evolved from apes and that our dietary needs may be similar, but I soon learned that this is not the case and I changed the name to Gorilla Diet like in Gorilla Warfare, because I felt that I had I have to fight everything I thought I knew and was taught was healthy for me, so would you like to know what the ideal diet for humans is?

Yes, the journey begins 3 and a half million years ago in the rainforest of Africa where all of us who are alive today come from 3 and a half million years ago an evolutionary change allowed us to become bipedal, that is, walking on two limbs in Instead of the knuckle-walking we shared with apes, this major evolutionary change came especially for our benefit 1 million years later. With the onset of the Ice Age, the Ice Age caused Africa's rainforest to shrink in size, which generated greater competition for food. Being bipedal allowed us to leave the rainforest of Africa and move to the growing grasslands of the savannah and once we reached the savannas, we needed to adapt and we needed to do it quickly, look at the differences in a very short period of time with a evolutionary perspective, uh, uh, we began to undergo major evolutionary changes, we began to lose body hair, our teeth became smaller, more similar to those of modern humans and our protruding belly that we shared with apes decreased in size anatomically and our brains doubled and later with the control of fire they tripled in size for such important evolutionary changes to occur, an important factor was needed to change and that factor was our food, that is very simple, the foods that were available in the rainforest from Africa were different from the foods that were available on the savannahs;

In fact, the foods that were available in the savannahs allowed us to lead progressively longer and healthier lives. Research by Professor James Arer shows that ancient humans lived beyond the age of 70 if they managed to survive childhood and women already They lived past menopause 1.8 million years ago, so what were the foods we ate that allowed us to thrive as a species? the sheets well, if you ask most people they will tell you it was meat since the sheets are full of animals however the sheets are full of lean animals with hardly any body fat and high levels of protein now that we consume high levels of With too little protein in fat we will develop a condition called Mal karibu rabbit starvation which leads to the build-up of ammonia in our blood and loss of minerals and eventually our death.

Furthermore, archeology professor John D Speth points out that even modern Hunters with modernized brains are only successful in their hunting expeditions 3% of the time and when they finally capture an animal, they usually don't even share it with family members. , but they only share it with other hunters and generally hunt at times when they find other food. abundantly concluded that we were hunting large animals for social and political reasons rather than to put food on the table, so meat could not have been this stable food source that allowed our brain showers to grow and produced such important evolutionary changes.

They happened, so what were the foods that were found in abundance on the savannahs? Well, grass grains number one, they were found in a wide variety and in abundance, in fact, research shows from our dental calculus, ancient human teeth and, uh, isotopes, uh, research shows that we were consuming. They in abundance and vegetable plants with underground storage organs grow underground, therefore, they had almost no other competitors in the savannahs, these include tubers, onions, carrots, yams, beets and cassava, legumes were also found in abundance in a wide variety, as well as fruits, nuts and seeds. but there was more competition on those who noted that these foods are rich in carbohydrates and fats necessary for our growing brain to develop.

Our brain uses more than 20% of our metabolic energy expenditure at rest. Now what about dairy products? Dairy foods were only introduced into our diet in populations that emigrated from Africa to the countries of northern Europe about 6,000 years ago, but they decided to habituate cows to obtain their milk to overcome food shortages in the winter, but soon They realized that they could not use cows' milk, due to its high levels of lactose, lactose is the sugar found in dairy products, so humans, like other mammals, lose our ability to digest lactose after infancy, so we smart humans found a way to overcome this and made milk. in cheese and in this process we lose a lot of lactose, but there are other problems associated with consuming milk from a different mammal, for example, the protein molecule in cow's milk is a much larger molecule than the whey protein that is found in human milk.

It enters our digestive system, causes disorders and can cause internal injuries and even bleeding, anemia, even cancer and, in addition, human milk has practically the lowest levels of protein compared to other mammals, so we also have very low levels of calcium but high levels of unsaturated fats and carbohydrates which are necessary for our survival and simply shows where we should focus when we eat, so where did our lack of animal protein begin? It probably began around the beginning of the 20th century with the discovery of a disease called quo in populations that relied on processed grains for their staple foods.

Very simply, processed grain, whole grain, can last and be stored for about 6 months, which is why the Industrial Revolution popularized food processing for storage and transportation purposes. The whole grain that could last 6 months when processed could now be stored for three decades, but processing removes all the richness of nutrients found in the bran and germ layer and we are basically left with the endosperm, empty calories with a lot of gluten. . Thus, these populations that depended on processed grains for their staple diet began to develop protein deficiency, but once their diet was supplemented with animal products, they were immediately cured and the World Health Organization took these findings very seriously. and ruled out protein deficiency as a cause. global crisis, but if these populations had been eating whole grains and foods from their natural habitat, they would never have developed a protein deficiency in the first place, personally following the ideal diet for humans.

I managed to cure myself of the disease. Now I'm four years old. cancer free thanks no radiotherapy no radiotherapy they recommended me but not only that, I also lost all my excess weight, so why did I lose my excess weight? Because when we supply ourselves with the nutrients they need, this automatically eliminates any overeating and food cravings, so I'm sure by now you're wondering if we all have the same dietary needs. Research by Professor Marcus Feldman of Stanford University points out that all humans alive today share a DNA sequence that is 99.9% identical. We practically have the same DNA between us and very similar to that of our prehistoric ancestors, therefore for the most part we have the same dietary needs between us and as our prehistoric ancestors had, unsurprisingly, two animals of the same species.

To have the same dietary needs, we always focus on our differences, but basically we are practically all the same. In fact, with all the research available, it's a wonder that we still live to virtually the same age that ancient humans lived if we manage to survive childhood, we should live long, healthy energetic lives, and when we maintain a healthy cellular environment and eat our dietideal, there is no reason why we should settle for less and, in fact, this diet there are no excuses because this diet is the cheapest diet whole grains legumes vegetables and clean water these are the cheapest foods but they are not only cheap for our pocket but are also cheap for our planet when we consume our ideal diet and each of us chooses to consume only half of the animal protein we currently consume we reduce greenhouse gas emissions we reduce the need for much deforestation we positively influence the hunger in the world and we reduce the amount of pollution in our water, air and soil and we also reduce a lot of unnecessary animal cruelty so now it all comes down to who makes the final decision: taste.

Well, I won't lie to you. Unnatural foods. Processed foods and meat with a lot of fat. They taste much better because they are designed that way. They are manufactured that way. Billions of dollars are invested. in this industry to make these foods as enjoyable an experience as possible; However, when we consume these foods we will only feel good while we eat them, whereas when we consume our ideal diet we will feel good long after we finish our meal and that is not the case. It doesn't take long to get used to it originally, so in the Bible it says that life and death are in the power of your own tongue.

It is true that life and death are in the power of our food choices. Remember that we have only one body. and one planet and our CHfood choices influence both, it's time for a health revolution and we can all start by making better food choices today, we owe it to ourselves, thank you very much.