Tag: western diet

Cheese with everything?

Cheese. That salty, gooey, milky menace we’ve been trained to worship. Stick it on a sandwich, melt it over pasta, or eat it in great chunks after dinner. It comes disguised it in crisps, sauces, and snacks that don’t even deserve the word “cheese.” The dairy industry wants you to think it’s wholesome; reality says it’s a biochemical seduction.

Here’s the dirty secret: cheese is addictive. Not just “I like it a lot” addictive, but genuinely biochemically addictive. Casein, the primary protein, breaks down into casomorphins – tiny opioid-like compounds that light up the brain’s reward system like cocaine. In plain English: cheese messes with your brain like a tiny drug dealer. And the more processed it is, the stronger the hit.

Meanwhile, your arteries and knees are quietly filing complaints. Saturated fats, salt, and inflammatory compounds – perfect for clogging your blood vessels and aggravating joints – are all concentrated in this innocent-looking ‘food’. Digestive havoc? Also on the menu, even if you haven’t been officially diagnosed as lactose intolerant.

Globally, most humans live just fine without cheese. Western obsession is a bizarre outlier, fuelled by clever advertising and a relentless parade of “cheese-flavoured” imposters – chemicals pretending to be cheese with the casein carefully left in are quietly reinforcing the addiction without delivering any of the minimal nutritional perks. Yes, you are addicted, and yes, you have been groomed.

Escape is possible. Cold turkey works: toss the cheese, read labels like a hawk, and savour the moment you realise your taste buds can function without casomorphin hits. If that’s too brutal, phase it out slowly. Swap in some plant-based alternatives, experiment with nuts, tofu, nutritional yeast, or just bold herbs and spices. Learn to cook! It’s less about deprivation and more about reclaiming your autonomy from a substance designed to hijack your brain.

Cheese tastes good – but not good enough for terminal self destruct. Arteries, joints, metabolism, and self-control would all sign a petition demanding its removal – if you ever asked. The rest of the world manages perfectly well without it – so can you. And the sooner you do, the less time you’ll spend slavishly, addictively, defending the very thing that’s making you ill.

Getting better

Why would ‘better’ be something we have to go out and get?

Surely it should be with us all the time, but the same wording is used for ‘getting’ ill – as if it is something we shop for at the supermarket

Well

Perhaps it is something we get.

Most of us spend most of our lives living with some kind of low grade inflammation all over
This is what we consider normal and it gets worse with age
We have gotten so used to it we think it’s normal

We eat junk, we know it’s junk, we eat rubbish, we know it’s rubbish, we turn our noses up at fruit, we refuse to eat vegetables and we have phobias about eating salads.

We are all addicted to sugar, fat and refined carbs, and wonder why we feel vaguely sick all the time.

Stop messing about, you know why you feel sick all the time. You eat crap! You pay no attention whatsoever to the quality of the food you put in your mouth, half the time you don’t even know what it is!
You just shove the fastest, easiest, nearest crap into your mouth and assume all will be well, just like everybody else, till, when you are fifty you find yourself on a gurney being rushed into surgery for a bypass.

Welcome to the western world where your diet will kill you.

Having just reached a similar point myself I know where that place is, being hospitalised is scary.

Going out and ‘getting’ better is where it’s at.

Get yourself a better diet, get yourself healthy, get yourself fit, get that feel good factor into your life now – start now by eating your veggies before you die.
Get your head round it, get rid of your junk addiction and start eating real food.

I thought I had a fairly healthy diet, mostly vegan mostly plant based, I loathe meats anyway so I don’t eat them. I hate milk, I’m not keen on greasy stuff or sweet things I don’t eat sweets as such, but I slip often enough to make my diet pretty damn useless anyway, so I need to clean up my act.
Recently I was eating bars of chocolate, white buns with jam and clotted cream, tiramisu, mayonnaise, prawns and fish slathered in oils and even some meats like roast beef. I was completely off the rails.
Then came the easter celebrations and plates full of filled eggs and devilled eggs and other dishes made with eggs, french cheeses, white bread, jams and clotted cream and serious overdoses of chocolate.

I ate everything. I overate.

No wonder I ended up in hospital with stabbing pains in my guts the day after, the DAY after!

I did it all to myself,

I know what to do now. You know what to do too, you do, you have always known, but you don’t listen to it, you only listen to your food addiction and every day you make the easy wrong choice, and you know you do. Even in the face of your own addictions, your own habits, your own routines, as well as advertising, the misinformation, propaganda and the immense social pressure we are all under, change anyway.
Start anyway.
Just like me you need to change your diet before it kills you.

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