Humans are the only species that regularly eat what is bad for them and makes them sick. In contrast, wild animals are selective in what they eat and do not suffer from the chronic diseases and cancers suffered by humans, pets and zoo animals raised on processed food. Even wild bears with all that body fat live healthy lives without any diabetes medication! Today, humans with access to processed food and expensive medicines live about 25% of their lives with pain, disease and declining energy (vitality). In the US, we spend 20-25% of our GDP on treating the sick.
Good food is essential for nourishing our guts, otherwise known as our "second brain" because they are innervated by the second largest neural network in the body (after our brain). Our intestines also host the largest bacterial colony in the body, which produce modulators of our immune system, mood, digestion and metabolism. Yet, much of the food we eat today ravages our digestive tract instead of nourishing it because food is now a profitable commodity carefully designed, denatured and marketed to maximize corporate profits and not its metabolic contribution to our body.