Overeating Is a Poison!

The importance of dose, discipline, and balance in nutrition

In life, we always try to escape from poisons — poisonous foods, toxic ingredients, poisonous fish, poisonous creatures… Yet we willingly allow a very dangerous poison into our lives: overeating!

Eating too much is, in fact, a serious toxin. This is why everything you eat must be consumed in the right amount and the right dose. In medicine, there is an important principle: everything must be administered in the correct dose. If you give a hypertensive patient ten medications instead of one, you poison them; if you increase a 100 mg dose to 300, 500, or 1000 mg, you lose the patient. The same logic applies to food.

Eating should no longer be an act done solely for taste and pleasure; it should be approached almost with the mindset of a medication. Because when you eat heavily, there is only one way to move away from this toxic state: to approach life as if you were a Type 2 diabetes patient.

Type 2 diabetes patients carefully regulate their relationship with carbohydrates, their protein intake, meal intervals, exercise routines, training habits, and medical support. When healthy individuals who are not diabetic apply the same discipline, they rise above ideas like “eat this and you’ll live longer” or “avoid that and you’ll achieve longevity,” and instead establish a truly balanced way of living.

If you eat like a diabetes patient — meaning you eat in the right dose, move regularly, control your meals, and manage your nutrition with discipline — then you can prevent your lifespan from shortening and make the time you have been given far more comfortable and enjoyable.

Final word: Eat like a diabetes patient, and guide your life as a diabetes patient would.