Friday, August 15, 2008

You are what you eat!

"May I have your order please?"
"Sure.I'll have the double-double animal style, an order of fries and a coke. Oh! And super size it please!"

This sounds familiar, doesn't it? A fast paced life and a fast food lunch or dinner. We pound down these gut bombs and our hunger is gone. Unfortunately, an hour later we feel crappy. Why? Good question!

There are several reasons. Most importantly, all this food is overly processed. To much added gunk to keep it fresher longer, so the food doesn't go bad as quickly. How about the meat? I'm not sure you really want to know! Look, I'm guilty of the same thing. I'm in a hurry and I stop and get myself a few gut bombs.

The meat was injected with hormones to speed it's growth, it ate food that was sprayed with chemical fertilizers and insecticides while it was growing. Yummy! The tomatoes were grown in a field with high tension wires running thru it along with a few oil well rigs spewing diesel exhaust fumes. Not to mention the growth hormones they sprayed with the insecticides on them while they were growing. The lettuce and onions? Yep! You got it, the same thing.

We wonder why we get so sick so often. We really shouldn't wonder at all! The United States, per capita, is the sickest industrialized modern country in the world. We have more cancer, more heart disease, and more diabetes than ANY other country in the world. Why?

We have the best Doctors and medicine there is. Did you know.....that 106,000 Americans die every year from the wrong medications? The very medications they were instructed by their Doctors to take? Do I blame the Doctors? Not at all! I blame the pharmaceutical companies. I'm not sure that our best interests are their best interests. These huge companies visit the Doctors and actually give them incentives to prescribe their drugs. The Doctors are merely handing out what they have been told will do the job. Haven't you seen the commercials on TV for any number of different products? The ones where, at the end of the commercial, there is the disclaimer that you may have side effects? Side effects like, heartburn, erectile dysfunction, headaches, nose bleeds, double vision, warts, herpes, and even death. Sounds like a good time to me, sign me up!

There are things we can do. You already know what it is. Your Mom and Grand Ma knew it too. Didn't they tell you to eat your vegetables? Didn't they always have fruit to eat? Do you remember when you were in school, and they showed you that food pyramid? You know the one, it had how many servings of veggies a day your body needs, how much grains a day you need, how much protein and how much fruit you need to be healthy. Well guess what? They have changed all of that. It used to be 3-5 fruit servings a day, and now in 2008 it's 7-10!!! Did you know.....in 1952 it took 2 peaches a day to give a woman her daily requirement of vitamin A, and today it would take 52!? Why you ask? Well, I mentioned it up above. All that, plus the fact that they harvest the food before it's ready and it doesn't have time to fully develop. Great, huh? You could do all your fruit and veggie shopping at the "All Organic" store.That would really help. The next problem would be that our soils are depleted of their natural growth chemicals from over growing. The "All Organic" store is your best bet for buying foods that are grown properly. But boy, are they expensive! So where does that leave us? What can we do about it? Stay tuned for more! Or visit my web sites!

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