As ultra-processed food becomes more accessible than ever and nine-to-five jobs become increasingly demanding - not to mention our highly sedentary lifestyles, our modern preoccupation with all things nutrition and healthy eating-related slowly falls to the wayside before being left behind entirely.
“I’ve got plenty of years before I need to get serious about my eating habits”, “I’ll run it off in the morning”, “I’m burnt out because of work” – we say, manipulating ourselves with self-placating mantras to lure our minds and bodies into a false sense of security as we chug coffee and energy drinks before downing ‘nutritional’ meal replacements to make up for the healthy calories we haven’t had time or energy to consume yet.
