5 Ps Stealing Years from Our Lives
This isn’t food, it’s slow poison
I reflected on this while eating a frozen pizza after work. We’re the generation trading years of life for convenience.
One of the world’s leading longevity experts identified the “5 killer Ps”: pizza, pasta, excess protein, potatoes, and bread.
Our relationship with food has become toxic. We call microwaved pasta “lunch” and frozen pizza “dinner.”
I remember my grandmother, Italian to the core, looking horrified at what we now call the “Mediterranean diet.”
“This isn’t food, it’s slow poison,” she’d say.
She was right.
In Sardinia, where people happily live beyond 100, dinner is vegetable soup with a small piece of homemade bread.
Here, we think we need protein at every meal, as if our body were a perpetual bodybuilding project.
Our habits are stealing our lives. It’s easier to order pizza than cook vegetables. It’s quicker to microwave pasta than prepare a real meal.
For years, I lived on the “5 Ps.” Breakfast?
White bread with butter. Lunch?
Pasta with packaged sauce. Dinner?
