"Human Beings Do Not Make Food Choices in Isolation"

 I liked this quote so wanted to share it:

"A doctor on Facebook decries the prevalence of chronic illness and promotes the idea that nutrition is the answer. 

A critical missing factor in such promotions is the nervous system and the social environment in which people live. 

Food, insulin resistance, and ultra-processed food systems are important. But human beings do not make food choices in isolation.

Chronic stress, financial insecurity, trauma, social isolation, sleep disruption, overwork, discrimination, and lack of safety change physiology. They shift appetite, cravings, inflammation, digestion, hormone balance, glucose regulation, and energy use. A body under chronic stress often seeks fast calories and quick relief because survival becomes prioritized over long-term health.

That is why so many diets fail. People often try to change behavior while still living in the same conditions that helped create the problem.

The healthcare system also tends to individualize responsibility while ignoring the larger environment. Food corporations engineer highly rewarding products, communities lose access to real food and social support, people work exhausting schedules, and then individuals are blamed for “poor choices.”

Health is relational and physiological, not just behavioral. Sustainable change usually happens when people have enough safety, support, rest, connection, stability, and access for the body to stop living in constant survival mode. See less"

From Trauma Aware America on Social media.

I like this website because she questions societal systems paired with mental health treatment. Seriously check it out.