The Special Relationship Women Have With Food
By: Steve Andelkovic
Tags: Chronic Illness, Health, Nutrition, Nutrients, Eating Disorders

The Special Relationship Women Have With Food

I’ve chosen this title to spark interest and I feel many would relate to it very much. Also I’ve referenced this idea in candid interactions in the past while being intrigued by different anxieties women have with their battle with diet. Being a dude it’s been a interesting sideshow even on media, personal observation, and professionally through being a mental health registered nurse for many years. My relationships, socially, and professionally, I have been sometimes amused, judgemental, and genuinely perplexed in the struggle women have with food. Yes indeed men too, I myself had issues on the obesity side of the ledger while also being a world championship triathlon competitor decades ago had a brush with the anorexic side of the weight ledger also. But women still outperform the guys in their diet anxiety.

It took me 4 decades to eventually come to the elephant in the room of diet, exercise, nutrition, and health. Not genes, not personality or will power, not psychological issues. Nutrients. Not the yeah yeah I know heard it all before cognitions, but slap in the face type nutrients we need to avoid health issues. Not one particular nutrient is beneficial of this and the other for that. We need the whole kit and caboodle. 100 plus nutrients are essential to avoid both ledgers of the weight spectrum and the ability to avoid disease. We are lucky these days to be getting a third of the nutrients we require while another part of the puzzle is absorption of these nutrients. And women have suffered most. Here’s why.

Woman have greater nutrient needs than men per kilogram of body weight due to the demands on reproduction related physiological body systems. My anecdotal observations from the past have always seen that women suffer cravings more than men because simply women need more nutrients and women are more nutrient deficient, therefore leading to pica behaviour. Many an observation would make me notice that women made up 90% of 3:30pm chocolate buyers at the train station I used to wait at. Men though made up 60% of the soft drink buyers though. Anyway, Pica is a munchies type behaviour centred on cravings which means you are on the search for nutrients. But we aren’t understanding why, we just know we want to eat, often manifesting to cognitions of lacking will power and guilt when body image and weight fixation starts ruling your anxieties.

2 events in human history have led to our health and weight complex in the modern world. Ancient Egypt and Thomas Edison in 1882. These 2 events have ruined our ability to absorb nutrients as we get older (Egypt) and the ability to gain the nutrients we require for ongoing health and weight control (Thomas Edison). Many of my articles on this blog have discussed many perspectives on these 2 forgotten and misunderstood events in our history. I’ve linked some below. Our obesity and chronic illness epidemic is just the lack of nutrients, that is all. We are nutritionally starved in the midst of ample calorie availability. We cannot and will not get the nutrients we require for health in these days of the food supply complex. We need to supplement or suffer, I need to be blunt as that.

Infertility, obesity, eating disorders, bowel issues, skin issues, muscular skeletal issues, premature ageing, chronic illnesses and mental health are all caused by nutrient deficiencies. Do not fall for the mainstream fixation of blaming your genes, and autoimmune disease. This is code for we don’t know and we don’t want to take responsibility. Producing and captive animal owners started taking action 60 years ago and have eliminated disease in animals and doubled life expectancy, why not us humans. Well the short answer is that other people’s money is paying for other people’s health costs, which means health insurance and socialised medicine. We would be paying $500 per kg for meat if human health was translated to animal management. Why are animals nourished and not us humans!

So what do I need to do to fix our dilemma I’ve discussed? Address the 2 elephants. Clean up diet and supplement what we will not be able to gain from diet ever again. Diet: must, cease gluten, oils, burnt animal fat, processed meat, and sugar. Sounds like a tall order because women have special relationships (cravings) for those foods. But the picture will clear when all the nutrients are introduced and you won’t crave anymore. You read correctly, it sounds groundbreaking but it is that simple. Nutrients: after the absorption is sorted or in conjunction, the supplementing of 100 plus particular nutrients and proportions is required. One company understands the ideas presented here. I will share this if there is interest by reaching out here in comments or email on the blog profile. I hope this has sparked something for the reader.

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