"People are fed by a food industry which pays no attention to health. And people are treated by a health industry which pays no attention to food."
~ Wendell Berry
I think we’ve heard refrains of this from most of the LCHF/keto physicians and authors - and I like to think that good changes are afoot.
Wendell Berry (b. 1934) is an American author famous for his writings on nature, ecology, homesteading, and real food. He grew up in a small farming family in Kentucky, and his novels describe that way of life with great insights (and are very enjoyable reads). He’s a recipient of the Nat’l Humanities Medal, among other awards.
Berry is especially well known for his skeptical take on sedentary TV/computer culture. In one essay, he talks fondly of the days when neighbors, for lack of anything else to do after sunset, would go visiting and tell and retell the stories of their people and their place.
Instead of being at odds with his conscience, he is at odds with his times -cheerful in dissent, he writes to document and defend what is being lost to the forces of modernization & industrial agriculture - and the moral significance of being connected to the living land.
And, mindful of departure from this life, he and his wife Tanya Berry - both of them radiant and non-obese elders prob due to their non-industrial food ways - bequested their farm to the Dominican Sisters of Peace College.
Another great quote from the documentary done about him last year: “Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.”