What does a keto world future look like?

#1

I often wonder what our world would look like if the majority of people learned about and exploited the benefits of keto. What would our world look like? What will the grocery store shelves be filled with? What sort of restaurants would thrive? What would their menus be composed of? What will the farming industry look like? What about our global food supply chain? And healthcare?

Here’s what I believe the future will look like:

  • less calories consumed per capita, because there will be more IF, and less snacking between meals, no need to exercise for hours to burn off calories
  • less food waste, because there will be less variety of processed foods, less snack type foods packaged, less variety of food that we buy that could go bad in our fridge
  • less food waste garbage coming out of our kitchens at home
  • less wasted gym memberships not being used, more compressed time at gym doing HIIT instead of hours of aerobics exercises, more time outdoors exercising than indoors
  • less pharmaceutical therapies, less drugs consumed per capita
  • food crops and animals raised closer to point of consumption, less transport of food products, less waste of uncommon consumed parts of animal, more free range and grass fed
  • less energy consumption per capita for food processing, food packaging, transport and storage
  • higher productivity at work per employee, because of less illnesses and better overall health
  • higher grades or scholastic standards obtained in high school and university
  • longer life span, better quality of life in latter years
(Lola Fattoush) #2

Wow Florella, you obviously have your thinking hat on tonight. What you describe sounds wonderful, and I think it requires we stand up and become proactive --individually and collectively to push for these changes. We would also have smaller grocery stores…for a long time I’ve found these huge grocery stores so annoying…it’s like you need an all-star pass to get from Produceland to Deliland etc.

So you’ve laid out a vision of how this could be much better for society, so with individual enactment of these principles the food corporations, medical professionals, etc would be forced to enact changes.

You’ve given us a lot to think about. Great ideas, great post!

#3

I think the concept of a “health maintenance organization” (HMO) will finally be actualized for patients and not just as a way to minimize healthcare costs from the business perspective.

In other words, the massive amounts of money being spent on dealing with modern, chronic diseases will be conserved in some ways so people spend less money on healthcare, but spend it in ways that keeping people healthier and more productive.

The concept and practice of functional medicine will significantly outpace the specialist mentality and medical practitioners will go back to being someone that’s an extension of the family unit because of the intimacy required to tailor recommendations that optimize health rather than manage sickness.

#4

I see such a profound change in my little world when I eat keto…so, it makes me wonder what the ripple effect would be if I multiply the changes by millions of people…what impact that would make on society.

#5

I agree. We don’t have “healthcare” today…it’s more like “sick care”.

#6

Improvement of animal treatment, because everybody insists on grass-fed, outdoor-raised.

(Lola Fattoush) #7

So true…and I am beginning again today, so definitely time to clean up my act first…and THEN on to rescue the world. All kidding aside, I am a happier and very calm person on keto. Luckily for me I adapt very fast.

(Michael Wallace Ellwood) #8

Supermarkets, for example, would be unrecognisable.

As would the “health-care” industry, and the fitness industry.

My personal concerns would be whether we have enough grazing land to produce the animals we’d need, and whether there would be enough water to go around.

(and there would still be a need for some grain, since you can’t feed animals grass 12 months in the year in many climates).

There would certainly be objections to this kind of change from well-meaning concerned individuals on environmental grounds. Certain of their objections may be valid, at least in part, and should be taken notice of at least to the extent that we can properly “see the science” in an objective fashion. Just because someone is a vegan, doesn’t make them wrong about everything… :wink:

#9

Lierre Keith wrote a book called, “The Vegetarian Myth” and in her transition to becoming an omnivore again, one of the things she discusses is grazing land and animals and how food will need to be produced and consumed locally. I found it to be a very interesting read.

http://www.lierrekeith.com/book-ex_the-vegetarian-myth.php

(Lola Fattoush) #10

Less obesity, and less obese children

Just maybe this is going a little off topic, but I see how the the dark spectre of addiction affects our society and its children…have you heard of Me To diet being used in rehab to assist with addiction? If so, maybe that could be a nice benefit.