NUTRITION

"Do you know most of us are suffering from dangerous diet deficiencies, which cannot be remedied until depleted soils are brought into proper mineral balance? Fruit and vegetables and grains, now being raised on millions of acres of land that no longer contain enough of certain minerals, are starving us no matter how much we eat." Report to the US Senate, Rex Beach, 1936

Intensive farming is even more 'efficient' today......

One does not need to be a health professional to accept the logic of 'you are what you eat'. Yet for most of us processed, refined foods, additives, hormones and chemicals are commonplace in our diets. We smoke, drink, imbibe drugs such as caffeine, thus overworking our hormonal and compromising our immune systems. Our blood sugar levels 'yo-yo' with high glycemic foods, promoting the need to satiate our appetites by eating more and more high glycemic foods (this alone is a diabetes time-bomb). Again, it doesn't take a genius - obesity is rife - to appreciate the grounds for this assessment. 

Because of stress, lack of self-esteem and self-restraint, 'comfort food' is a regular companion. We vainly attempt to fill the voids in our modern lives by acquiring food and drink as material consumables, rather than thinking of them as vital building blocks for strong, durable and disease-free bodies. 

MESSING WITH NATURE

The body is a remarkable machine, able to repair and regenerate itself and combat disease, including cancer, if nourished with the tools to do so. These tools occured naturally in an era when foods were truly organic and unadulterated. Nowadays, even those of us who eat totally organic and unprocessed diets cannot possibly hope to glean what the body needs in the amounts required for optimum health.

100 years of intensive farming, use of cheap fertilisers and pesticides has led to even our most naturally grown produce being affected by a serious depletion in vitamins, minerals and other trace elements that are required for optimum health.

Whilst some of these can be manufactured by the plants or the body, many cannot, and plants can only take from the soil what is actually in the soil. 

UNHEALTHY PROFESSIONALS?

How often are we told by health professionals WHY we are sick? They are trained to treat symptoms with drugs. They are sponsored and paid by pharmaceutical companies to do so. A GP with more than just a basic knowledge of nutrition is rare. They are rarely taught it whilst training. Medical curriculums are largely formulated by drugs companies. And yet over 100,000 patients die annually (US figures) from complications caused by drugs and 'traditional' therapies.

Someone heavily overweight, with an unhealthy diet and eating habits, after two strokes, was given the following nutritional advice by his GP - "don't drink grapefruit juice". Apparently this particular beverage could interfere with his drug treatment - no other dietary advice or lifestyle changes were suggested! 

Moreover, although drugs companies know the cause of major diseases, they actively strive to prevent this knowledge* from being promoted because the way to secure the avoidance major diseases is not only relatively easy, but also CHEAP. They NEED you to be sick. That's how they make money. Annual health expenditure in the US alone is over $1 trillion!

*In the 70s, major university research (funded by pharmaceutical companies) proved that high cholesterol itself is NOT necessarily the cause of heart disease. The researcher's funding was withdrawn and he lost his tenureship. 

It is believed that the cause of a majority of degenerative diseases - from arthritis to cancer - is a natural process in the body called Oxidative Stress.

WHAT TO DO

Watch the clip below - we all like stuff to be validated on TV.....

Natasha followed the Gerson diet and helped to give her body the tools to fight and destroy cancer. Diet certainly worked for her. However, diet alone may not provide the body with what is required to maintain optimum health and the prevention of future illness.

To know what is required, we need to learn what the body needs, the cause of degenerative disease, and how supplementation, using the recommendations of nutritional experts such as Dr Ray Strand, can help to equip the body to avoid degenerative disease and resist viral infection.

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“The commonest form of malnutrition in the Western world is obesity. “ Mervyn Deitel

“Tell me what you eat, and I’ll tell you what you are.” Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Please note: I have no medical qualifications. Any advice given here should be backed up by your own research before being followed.

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"We are what we eat" - yet less than 6% of medical doctors have any formal training in nutrition

Principal causes of death in the US: 1) heart disease, 2) cancer, 3) medication