There is a so much of nonsense about food that it is worth it to look back at some traditional or tribal eating habits. For example, traditionally, majority of

There is a so much of nonsense about food that it is worth it to look back at some traditional or tribal eating habits. For example, traditionally, majority of the Nepalese population is eating white rice with some kind of lentil curry and seasonal vegetables two times a day basically whole year and remain healthy and not overweight due to their active, working lifestyle. Modern memes are telling us that white rice is almost poisonous, despite the fact that more than half of the world population (almost whole Asia) feed on it. Tibetans, Sherpas and other Himalayan tribes are still rely heavily on cow/nak butter (the main commodity and the source of nutrition) and Tsampa (rusted barley flour) which they consume on a daily basis in the form of so-called Sherpa tea (butter, Tsampa, hot watter, sugar or salt) or in a form of bread-like mass (same ingredients). According to modern memes this is a disastrous diet, but, you see, these people are healthy and happy. I could go on, about various tribes of India or Sri Lanka (mostly rise and veges). The picture will be almost the same. Simple, homemade food and not being a couch potato makes it. There is no problem with traditional foods. The problems are with the food industry and its commercial products which, being aggressively marketed, altered the traditional eating habits. As for myself, I could confirm that especially in high altitudes (in Himalayas) the tribal eating habits, which I follow happily, are the evolved balance for energy storage and intake, according with the harsh conditions, seasons and available food sources. There is no alternative in calories efficiency to the a half-kilo lump of nak butter (just cream, no additions) and a small bag of Tsampa for weeks-long crossing of the ridges in Himalayas.