What’s wrong with a single pork chop?
A head of lettuce?
A carrot whole and uncooked?

Cooking is a artform of which I am particularly fond of, the way flavors can be weaved with other flavors to make new exciting flavors is endlessly entertaining and its own reward. So I may often devote a hour or two to making something new and masticate on it slowly as I appreciate my mastery over nature.

But is it not sensible to appreciate the basics as well?

 

A large juicy steak,

A bowl of bright red strawberrys

A Capsicum pulled directly out of the cool fridge.

 

Complicated meals are necessary for restaurants to pull in customers by offering what may otherwise be too much effort to enjoy at home.

And they present these foods, in every from of advertisement they can!

Hamburgers on billboards!

Pizza on your TV!

The smell of fried Chicken in the air!

 

It is no wonder that with such constant exposure since birth we consider a proper meal in this country to be equally extravagant in preparation and inorganic in ingredients.

The average American supposedly eats out 4-5 times a week, and from what I have seen working in a market place for almost a year, the average American also buys so many prepared foods, favoring convenience over nutritional value. 

But this convenience is an illusion!

I can in five to ten minutes have prepared a healthy delicious meal

Steak and broccoli

Chicken in a Capsicum

Ground beef with zucchini and tomatoes

and in no minutes at all I can enjoy a healthy snack by grabbing a vegetable, fruit, or leftover cooked meat of my choosing.

 

But often I will focus on a single flavor say ground turkey and pair it with various seasonings.

Were our bodies not adapted to eat in this way? To find a food source and consume it to our satisfaction?

 

Water is another subject worth questioning. I doubt we sat down by the water hole. sipping from the river as we ate a hearty plate of finely chopped bison with a days variety of vegetables.

Simply the act of drinking water dilutes the digestive juices and certainly does not aid digestive juices hard at work. Pre-agricultural man obtained most of his water from the food he ate.

The reason why we drink so much water is the fault of our unnaturally high carbohydrate diets

Seriously: http://ajpregu.physiology.org/content/266/3/R682.abstract

There is no evidence that drinking 8 glasses a day does anything of value, so feel free to drink only when you are actually thirsty.