Focusing on all the wrong things when it comes to food
How to ignore the noise and find a sustainable and healthy practice with food
4 min readNov 15, 2022
Our health is a tricky subject. It’s deeply personal, but often outwardly visible. It influences every aspect of our life — our work, our family, our social life, our interests, and our happiness. It’s natural to spend a lot of our time thinking about it.
When something is so integral to our quality of life, there is a human tendency to want to optimize it. We try to do this with a lot of things in our life– like our finances, our education, our time– as we often want to do the most with the least. What is not optimized is often packaged as wasteful: could you be living a better life?
While optimizing our health seems like a reasonable endeavor, this lens often leads to misguided priorities when it comes to food.
