16/10/2025
Nenad Bakaj: How to Make Your Body Play for You – Not for the Food Industry’s Team?
It’s starting to look more and more like we live in a world where someone benefits from keeping us tired, half-sick, and addicted to nonsense coming out of a box called the TV. Only now, that box isn’t just the television – it’s also our computer, laptop, and phone. You know the drill: “Eat this, buy that, you’ll be healthy and strong!” Oh really? Don’t tell me twice. But they do tell us twice — actually, a hundred times — repeating the same ad over and over, as if we didn’t see or hear it the first time. And they can’t allow that, can they? The food industry “cares” about our health about as much as a cat cares about a mouse’s wellbeing. Profit is king, and we’re just numbers at the checkout.
Take the sun, for example. For years, they’ve been selling it to us as the number one danger — “Don’t go out, you’ll burn, skin cancer, blah blah blah.” But the sun is actually a free dose of happiness and health. A few minutes outdoors, and your mood lifts instantly. Hormones rise, your bones smile, your immune system wakes up — and suddenly, you’re yourself again. But no — how would they sell creams and pills if they said, “Go outside early in the morning, soak up some sunlight, you’ll feel better”?
And food? Don’t even get me started. Half the shelves in the supermarket are chemistry disguised as food. Sugars, oils, additives, additives for additives… Everything natural — vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds — somehow always ends up shoved to the back corner, like they don’t want you to find it. “Salt is bad, fat is bad, meat will kill you” — yet no one says that what’s really destroying you is the stuff in the box, not the carrot from the garden, the apple from the tree, or the strawberry or mushroom from the forest. Real food builds you up, clears your mind, gives you energy — it doesn’t make you sluggish, heavy, and irritable.
I decided years ago to choose food that lifts me up — not the kind that sends me to detention. My mornings? If not two eggs (fried or scrambled) with avocado, tomato, spring onion, a spoon of sour cream, and a slice of sourdough bread, then at least a green smoothie or oatmeal with seeds and nuts. I’m not a robot who stuffs cereal with 50% sugar into himself just because some “celebrity” on TV said it’s the “breakfast of champions.” Every meal of fresh vegetables, legumes, and fruit — that’s my small rebellion against the system. I refuse to be a lifelong customer of their “solutions.” Years ago, I decided to stop buying certain things altogether. You have no idea what happiness that brings. When “they” keep calling, persuading, encouraging you to buy something, and you just smile and mutter through your teeth: “Buy it for your mother.”
Health isn’t just what you eat — it’s the whole lifestyle. Sleep properly (7–9 hours), move, breathe fresh air, spend time with people. When you give your body what it truly needs, it works like a Swiss watch. You don’t need “miracle drugs” or “superfoods” from ads. Just move, eat simply and naturally, and stay calm. The simpler, the healthier.
The sickness industry profits from our weaknesses. They make no money if you’re well — so they keep feeding us fear, doubt, and new “rules.” Most people nod and keep going as before. The few who see through the game live better, longer, with more energy. It’s not magic — it’s just two plus two.
The sun heals you, vegetables lift you, natural fats build you — and the industry can go find other victims. Every time you eat something fresh, walk for ten or fifteen minutes, or soak up a bit of sun, you give yourself an advantage. There’s no conspiracy here — just common sense and a touch of healthy rebellion.
Your body is your best teammate, but you have to play by its rules. Feed it wisely, move it, stay connected to nature. Less “superfood,” more real food — and more life in everything you do. Once you get that, you break the chains of addiction, reclaim your energy, and live life with full lungs.
And honestly — who wouldn’t want that?
P.S. There’s no conspiracy theory here — just plain sense and a bit of healthy defiance.
