Every 34 seconds, someone is having a heart attack. Every hour, someone dies from heart-related illnesses. Heart disease kills more people than all forms of cancer combined.
Diabetes is an
epidemic now. Cancers are increasing. More and more people suffer from
digestive upsets and migraines, not to mention mood disorders,
depressions and anxieties.
We are dosing our kids with drugs
because there is an over-abundance of diagnoses of ‘Attention Deficit
Disorder.’ Sexual dysfunction, obesity, fatigue-leads more people to
self-medicating, i.e. prescription drugs, illicit drugs and alcohol.
Why?
Look at our foods. Those who argue “Well my grandparents lived a long
time”-they didn’t deal with the shit we do now. We have fake sugars, and
1000′s products made with them. We have fake fats. We have bleaches and
dyes and fortifications and additives and preservatives. We replace
gluten and fats with chemicals and questionable fillers. Our grandparents didn't have 'bars' of 'nutrition' to take with them on the go. They had nothing to 'nuke' for dinner.
You used to go to a local butcher for local cuts of meat, and you'd go to a fish market for fish. Milk was delivered to their doors-from the dairy itself-and breads were purchased at the bakery. There was no 'one stop' shop, you'd buy fruits and veggies at a farm stand. You went to the grocery store back in the day, for your lards, flours, sugars and dried goods such as beans and rice.
We now house
animals in unbelievably crowded and filthy arenas, we feed them
antibiotics and hormones in order to expedite mass meat production. The
meat is not the same, even when I was a kid-I can tell a difference. We
have more food poisoning bacterias (E Coli), our soil has been
adulterated due to pesticides, and we have hybrid-GMO foods made for
some reason-mere lazy. I mean seriously, you can’t spit out the fucking
black watermelon seeds?
Don’t even get me started on
“gluten-free.” Few people have true Celiac Disease. The rest of us are
suffering digestive not so much because of gluten-but all the other
bullshit. They stick wheat in everything now, allegedly healthier than
white flour, and with the fake fats, sugars, fillers, chemicals,
colorants, fortified enriched-that’s what’s killing our gut. When people
eliminate gluten they usually eliminate a lot of other bs by default.
However, when you buy a ‘gluten free’ product that naturally WOULD have
gluten in it, now you are buying a substitution which will probably also
make you feel like crap.
Our grandparents ate organic all
the time-because it used to ALL be organic. They had no ‘better eating
through chemistry’. They didn’t have a microwave which gave birth to the
‘convienience food’ world. Nothing was stored in plastic, really.
Higher quality ingredients were used, and there were less choices.
Today, just going down a bread aisle can confuse you for an hour. They
didn’t add massive amounts of salt to foods-and people cooked at home. The seeds were not genetically altered.
Going
out to eat was for special occasions, and fast food was a ‘treat’-not a
lifestyle. Even the fast food ingredients and products were of much
higher quality. With population and demand increases, poor economies and
growing conditions-price vs supply and demand means substituting
costlier things, such as sugar into a cheaper alternative-high fructose
corn syrup. Killing us all, as it wrecks havoc with the
pancreas/glucose/insulin routine in our bodies.
Just like you
could argue that Latino cuisines have a palate that is geared towards
hot and spicy foods-the American palate likes sweet. This is why there
is sugar in EVERY FUCKING THING., From salad dressing to ketchup to any
bottled sauce, to tomato and spaghetti sauces, even spices-sugar is in
everything., And the bitch of it is-we don’t need it. At all. Our bodies
DO need SOME sodium. We simply don’t NEED sugar so the over abundance
that we get when not even trying-then the sugar we DO choose in the
forms of ice cream, pies, cakes, etc…..its no wonder that every other
person seems to develop diabetes or reactive hypoglycemia. Yet to avoid
those products and buy them without the additives-that’s where the cost
factors in. So what’s the solution?
GIVE THE SHIT UP. LEARN TO
LIVE WITHOUT SUGARS. More on that to come, and I know what I'm talking
about because I was also a sugar addict.
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