CrossFit Nick

This long and fascinating essay looks at the negative impacts that advances in science and technology have in our ability to deal with disease. This paragraph toward the end leapt out at me in particular:

Finally, that one of the simplest of diseases managed to utterly confound us for so long, at the cost of millions of lives, even after we had stumbled across an unequivocal cure. It makes you wonder how many incurable ailments of the modern world - depression, autism, hypertension, obesity - will turn out to have equally simple solutions, once we are able to see them in the correct light. What will we be slapping our foreheads about sixty years from now, wondering how we missed something so obvious?

I think we’re currently seeing something similar with nutrition at large. Our advances in science and technology have given us a modern diet starved of nutrients, chock full of unhealthy grains, empty calories, refined sugars, and strange chemicals.

Fortunately we are now seeing new and exciting diet trends analyzing the merits of a more ancestral diet. This look backward is proving to be richly rewarding as we rediscover essential scientific truths about nutrition and health.

I’ll save the soapbox. Suffice to say, the article is a worthwhile read.