Fibre—The Real Superfood and We’re all Deficient

Sorry, Carnivores. There’s no fibre in meat.

A supermarket freezer showing processed food packaging of ‘food’ that didn’t exist 100 years ago and lacks fibre, which we all need. Image source Canva Pro

Have you ever had a Twilight Zone experience in a supermarket? You walk through aisle after aisle of edible food-like substances and realise there’s no food there.

There are floor-to-ceiling freezers. Shelves lined with colourful packaging. Attention-grabbing characters declaring utter nonsense.

Something sinister is happening.

Food used to be grown by farmers and gardeners.

Now, it’s made by chemical engineers. Now it’s entertainment.

Most ‘food’ on supermarket shelves didn’t exist a hundred years ago.

Now, 44 per cent of North American adults between 50 and 80 are addicted to highly processed food.

Scientific American says they resemble drugs of misuse in several disturbing ways.

The Gut Microbiome

We can’t talk about eating real food without touching on the gut microbiome.

This is the unique ecosystem of trillions of microorganisms, mostly bacteria, viruses, fungi, and genes that live in your digestive tract: your gut, the small intestine, and large intestine (or colon).