enjoyable are they or could they realistically be? Will they make eating unpleasantly
necessary, automatic, perfunctory? Transforming your body should be an existential
enterprise, that is, transformation should take place with each food experience wherein
your sensations encounter the food—ideally in the growing process—and gather
associative appeal until it’s ingested. Home-cooked meals trump eating out; personal
herb gardens override bought spices; local fruit beats trucked produce; etc.
Finding a diet that can adapt to each dieter’s lifestyle and genetic heritage is unlikely
unless it can mobilize instead of relieve, unless it enhances nutritional self-possession
rather than causes stiff reliance. You do not possess a ‘will power deficit’ when your
focus is brought to the clarity of decision-making in the now.
As independent individuals, we would do well to cut our dietary umbilical cords and
rely instead on our own faculties of intuition, rational judgment, and self-respect when it
comes to food choice. Our dietary discretion will thus become our own right to a
confident guide to suitable nourishment.