Staying Healthy in the Fast Lane

staying healthy in the fast lane

of one of his interviews. His answer was quite thought provoking.
He said,

“...We’ve begun to realize first of all, we needed food so we

(humans) got ourselves a food supply, and that’s, I think, fairly

secure in Western nations. Not always secure in other nations.

But I think once we got a secure food supply, then we start notic-

ing that we started developing ill health related to the security of

our food supply—in other words, the abundance of our food. So I

think that the third stage we are going to move into is noting that

we’ve done terrible things to the planet in the name of a quest

for food. I think we’ve got to start learning now to go back and

correct things. We’ve got to start from the top downward. First

of all, I think we’ve got to learn what foods are sustainable and

still allow other species their space and their food, and their own

pass-way to evolution, as it were. At the same time, we use our

science to take these foods that are okay for us. They may not be

as palatable and may not be as brilliant as we want, but these are

the okay foods for use, and then see how we can put these back

into the human diet along with physical activity and get us into a

better place. But I don’t think that the very egocentric way we’ve

been approaching nutrition is appropriate because it has such a

vast environmental impact. I think we’ve got to start looking at

what we’re doing to the rest of the planet, the other life forms

on the planet, and start asking ourselves, is there a better way of

eating? And I think if we do that and stop worrying quite as much

in a focused way about how can we get more out of it ourselves, I

think we’ll probably end up being better overall because we will

have a more complete solution to our problems if we learn how

to solve the other problems we’ve caused other species and the

rest of the planet in general.”^15

To me, the only way you can do this when approaching 7 billion
people on the planet is to eat a whole-food, unprocessed, plant-
based diet. Raising and eating animals for food energetically has
never been a very efficient or ecologically benign process. Just think
what will happen if the 1.33 billion Chinese and 1.17 billion-plus