"Food obsession." - Marco M.

Food obsession

It would be nice to quantify the number of hours lost around food: useless chatter; Television; nutrition experts (among yoga practitioners the latter are teeming); "ethical" speeches that verge on the ridiculous, with new tribes that see themselves as part of something because they choose to eat one thing rather than another; passing trends.

Dramas because one day you don't eat, which is probably good for you. Dramas because proteins are not "enough", dramas because there are too many proteins. "Gluten is bad for me", "I'm allergic to this" and "it's better not to eat that" etc etc.

As a kid, both I and the adults around me, as well as my peers, ate literally everything and certainly were no worse off than they are now. Then, in the eighties, everything was hyper-chemical and we ate things that were later discovered to be "very poisonous". Are we perhaps highlanders??!! All these hours wasted talking about nothing, when,to feed oneself, a shred of common sense and sensitivity would be enough .

I have never in my life made a calorie count or followed theories about the amount of protein or anything else. Honestly, I wouldn't even know how to define what a protein is. Despite this, I have more strength and endurance than most of the younger people who attend Cascina Bellaria and not because I am lucky. Luck counts for nothing.

I am sure that, as happens in other environments, there is an increasingly widespread malaise, and instead of acknowledging it and trying to solve the problem at the root (unnatural and mortifying lifestyles, total lack of joy for life) we fixate on food habits because it is convenient, it is trendy and does not imply great assumptions of responsibility. In addition to psychologists, the diet and nutrition expert is all the rage, which is one of the many other totally useless but very successful jobs.

As for me, when I hear about diets, my ears start bleeding and I run towards the first beer. 

m.m.