‘Normal’ life can be maintained on a diet incapable of producing high level health. Such high levels can, however, be achieved by the consumption of what McCarrison called ‘the unsophisticated foods of Nature’, when given in their natural state. The implications for contemporary society are reviewed. This nutritional value of foods is traced back to energy and to the two physical laws which govern energy. Schrodinger's examination of this problem highlighted the contrast between the entropy of energy in physical systems and biological order. Schrodinger spoke of neg-entropy, referring to the reversal of entropy in the affairs of living systems. This philosophical paradox is discussed.
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