Summary: Nutritional scapegoating is one of the most interesting and profound ways that we come up with for not doing what we know we should be doing for our own personal health. Anytime we scapegoat anything, or come up with an excuse as it where, we are choosing not to do those things that we know are best. Challenges During Life Over the past couple of weeks I have been trying to recover from a stint of ill health as it were. I have been able to overcome that, but as many of you know I did not have a podcast come out last week. It is very important for me to focus on my health and maintain a good quality of life for myself. That, in some cases, means that I must not do some of the things that I want to do in the moment. What Is Nutritional Scapegoating? Nutritional scapegoating is the act of creating an excuse as to why we are not doing those things that we should be doing. We do know that we should eat a healthy balanced nutritional diet of fruits and vegetables, meats, grain, and all the good stuff like that, but many times we have an excuse as to why we don't need some of those things. Even in elementary school I learned that I needed to eat my fruits and vegetables, however most the time I did not eat vegetables at all. This in turn caused me to wind up with what I believe is the biggest challenge of the past decade in my own life: Complex Regional Pain Syndrome. There are many ways that we can use nutritional scapegoating in our lives. Such statements like: I am a meat and potatoes guy. I don't like the taste of vegetables. I don't have the willpower to change. Many times these excuses are what keep us from progressing. We simply come up with an excuse as to why we do not do the things we do. Another nutritional scapegoat statement is: There are 7 billion people in the world today and we have to feed them all. If that were the case how come cancer used to only kill old people and effect people in their 80's and 90's, and now is the leading killer of children? Diabetes also affects many many people, and now also young kids are afflicted with type II diabetes. What Has Changed Over The Past 100 Years? Nutrition is the one thing that has changed in the last hundred years. The things that we eat are more processed and preserved and filled with chemicals and other things that are affecting our bodies in negative ways. Those things did not exist to the extent they do today 100 years ago.
