The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson, and is narrated by Tina Lehman.

Seven ways to deal with food anxiety.

People frequently wax sentimental for what they call simpler days,

presumably times when the rules were fewer and clearer,

when choices weren't so overwhelming, when demands were less and common sense was more prevalent.

Eating, of course, is no exception to this.

If you listen to the dominant voices in the

social media marketing medical culture, it's enough to ruin your dinner and make you feel

guilty for skipping breakfast. Don't buy the guilt trip. We're fed contradictory studies, warned of the

latest threats lurking in our food supply, told every bite squashes the

life out of another ecosystem, and led through fluorescent lit warehouses, filled with more food

options and label claims than one person should ever be reasonably expected to handle.

It's exhausting, frustrating, and on certain days defeating.

So, what's a reasonable approach in an age when anxiety too often overtakes enjoyment of eating?

Of course, the problem here isn't the intention for healthy eating itself.

In our primal ancestors' time, healthy eating was a thoroughly mindless endeavor.

No one knew anything about

nutritional science in the Paleolithic era, but it didn't matter. Their consideration never

wandered past the straightforward, albeit dramatic, question, is a poisonous. Beyond that single inquiry,

which usually offered quick feedback, bad choices didn't exist.

Unfortunately, for us modern folks, we don't have the luxury of tapping into the food of our

immediate environs without at least some degree of reflection. We have the burden of choice

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