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Dun Gifford, founder of The Oldways Organization and author of the book The Oldways Table, says since WWII we've eaten a lot more processed and artificial food and our bodies just aren't used to it.

Your body is used to fresh fruits, fresh vegetables, fresh meat, fresh fish. Over how many millennia, how many millions of years to take our genes to get where they are?

Eating a traditional diet is what our bodies are used to and crave, says Dun, a traditional diet like the Mediterranean diet.

It stresses unsaturated fatty acids in the technical nutrition sense, which really means olive oil as opposed to butter. That doesn't mean give up butter, everybody loves butter, I love butter. But, I balance that out with olive oil because it's a healthy fat profile for us. As to vegetables, it's more greens than we eat by quite a substantial amount. We're much more a potato culture - so they eat fresh vegetables; they eat a lot more fruit than we do.

We eat too much and we eat too fast, says Dun, and with a few healthy changes towards a traditional diet, you can make a big impact.

You find out you have higher energy levels; your skin will be better toned. It's quite amazing what in sixty days you can do if you eat the proper balance.

You can link to The Oldways website from ours: somethingyoushouldknow.net - I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.