EATIOLOGY: The study of simple observations and the sharing of thoughts on the causation or origination of mental and/or physical lifestyle related disorders, associated with our eating habits. 

Here you have a selection of foods that people are known to eat in one day – especially on a Sunday, with the roast dinner. 

Before I go any further, do you know what the UK official recommended daily consumption of carbs is for the average person, who is regarded as healthy with no medical diagnosis? 

I suspect, like many people, including myself (until yesterday) the answer is likely to be no, and I follow the #ketogenicdiet#keto. 😀 

So the first thought is: if a person is planning to check the nutritional info on the foods and ingredients (and given the variety of everyday foods that contain carbs) knowing the typical target level of daily carb consumption is surely a key recommendation. Should you be interested, one NHS trust states that 260g is an average daily target, with making appropriate adjustments up and down for men and women respectively. 

What they don’t highlight is the significance of taking into consideration the nature of person’s physical and mental activity, and how that relates to the burning of carbs to generate energy. 

Back to the images. I wonder if it will surprise you to know that, what looks like 4 hearty and healthy meals, accompanied by a glass of orange juice in the morning one cup of coffee with one spoon of sugar, then with the meal a glass of wine, and then a can of coke with the tuna mayo sandwich plus some crisps, together contains an approx total of 320g of carbs. (And I haven’t included any mid morning snacks or in the afternoon with a cuppa).

To put this into perspective and to connect this to the point about exercise: 
Food that contains 320g of carbs equates to 1280 calories. 
Apparently, it takes over 30,000 steps (that is over 15 miles of walking, daily) to burn approx 1200 calories. 

And of course calories don’t only come from the carbs we eat. For every gram of protein in all those dishes, your human body generates 4 calories. Plus for every gram of fat, it generates 6 calories. 

When these are added into the calculations, my guess is I would need to walk a marathon, to remain balanced.😉 Mind you we do burn the calories in other ways, including brain activity.

I’m going to finish this post with one last thought and pointer, which is in the form of a question, and feels to me to be the most significant, in terms of ‘eatiology’ of lifestyle related mental and physical disorders: 

Are you aware of how much the foods you eat (or any lifestyle activity for that matter) stimulates a feeling of pleasure/comfort/order/ease or on the opposite end of the spectrum displeasure/discomfort/disorder perhaps the most significant of all – disease?