Plenty of people are afraid of change — metathesiophobia, sometimes also called neophobia, the fear of the new. We feel comfortable in familiar surroundings, in our routines and our familiar things; changes to the comfort zone we meet with doubt, suspicion and fear.
For some reason, when people talk about a life like a fairy tale, what they picture straight away are idyllic, well-fed scenes of comfort and plenty. And yet take any fairy tale you like and it is all about suffering, misfortune and hardship. The heroes endure and overcome, and all of it for the sake of some static, ephemeral happiness in the future that the tale mentions almost in passing, as a formality. Yuna, for instance, used to compare her life to the tales of “Morozko” and “Cinderella”.
The opening session of a 30-day challenge: better posture, a healthier spine and a muscular armour that finally lets go.
The way its followers see it, the paleo diet means eating what our hunter-gatherer ancestors ate — the food people had before agriculture came along. The theory is that excess weight and most modern diseases can be traced back to grains, dairy and processed food in the daily menu. A fair question does arise — does this diet really give us the same foods our ancestors ate? — yet the benefits of the approach for weight loss
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