⏱ TREE 324: In search of less information

One.

I saw this comment beneath some guy’s mildly interesting YouTube video about how you’re doing protein wrong:

I feel sad for the distress this person lives with and fact they think it can only be fixed by more information on the label of their processed food.¹

Everyone knows that Japanese people who eat a traditional diet live healthy lives without diabetes, heart disease and cancer. That’s true for people who eat a traditional Mediterranean diet too. Slightly weirder, it’s true for people who eat a traditional full-fat French diet. Totally WTF, it’s true for people who eat a traditional Inuit diet. Yep, the seal fat and dried berries people.²

For the vast majority of humans, all you need for a healthy diet is a reasonable variety of real, minimally-processed food.

We have the choice between the 300,000 year history of humanity we carry in our bodies and 30 aisles of ultraprocessed food-like substances. And we mostly go for the Pringles, with a hefty side of YouTube.³

You already know how to be healthy. Getting access to your knowing may require you to unlearn what has been marketed to you your whole life. You may need to unvalue what consumer culture says is important.

This is also true about being happy.

Two.

The asymmetrical look is in this season and Jo is GOING. FOR. IT.

Three.

Today’s odd time signature song is in 7/8. I love 7/8 because it’s bouncy.

So you don’t think something about me that’s untrue:

1. I do eat lots of real food, but also

2. I just drank a cup of instant decaf coffee with oat milk.

Grow slowly
Jeff

1. I also realise this is a YouTube comment and may be hyperbole.

2. I know what I’m talking about. I wrote a paper about it in 2010 for my degree course.

3. Yes, I am basically the writing equivalent of some guy on YouTube. Isn’t irony fun!