Nutritional TruthClever Mixtures of Truth and Misinformation The multi-billion dollar
refined food industry has gained such power that it keeps people in ignorance
about food quality and literally controls our health. Clever mixtures of
truth, misinformation and propaganda are designed to prevent interest in whole
food nutrition from interfering with enormous profits.
Unfortunately, the
refined food industry also controls a vast amount of nutritional research, by
giving untold millions. Much of this is valuable, but information that
might harm sales goes unreported and problems where solutions could decrease
profits remain uninvestigated.
The tremendous
increase in ill-health has paralleled the ever-mounting consumption of refined
foods, sweets and soft drinks and the corresponding decreased use of fresh
vegetables, whole grain breads and cereals, fruits, and
legumes.
Independent research
shows that diseases of almost every variety can be produced by an undersupply
of various combinations of nutrients. The combined number of multiple
deficiencies, which can be endless, and the mildness or severity of each
determines whether one disease or another will be produced. The missing
nutrients, which allow illnesses to develop, have been discarded in processing
and refining foods. Deficiency diseases can be corrected when all
nutrients are supplied provided irreparable damage has not been done and, still
better, these diseases can be prevented.
Only a small portion of the billions spent on research of diseases is used for nutritional investigation. Is there any wonder why? There's no money in it. The money is in treatments, drugs and supplements. Many health
professionals believe that American health cannot be saved until the
advertising of the refined food industry is curtailed like that of the tobacco
industry.
Nutritional
information/education could help tremendously but getting adequate information
into the hands of those of us already out of the educational arena is difficult
at best. There is an awakening happening but not enough to turn the tide of our
nation, or the world, which is beginning to adopt our fast, convenient food
mentality.
In the past 50
years, many devastating diseases, like arteriosclerosis, cirrhosis, heart
disease, cancer and numerous others, have gone from being unknown to rampant.
What will happen in the next 50 years if our eating habits do not change? If
the present degeneration is to be halted, the energies of each of us are
needed. We would not be the first nation destroyed by poor food, but in America
we could be the first to degenerate while food is plentiful and knowledge of
how to build health is available. The health we enjoy or the sicknesses we endure are, in a large part, of our own making. No one except ourselves can eat the foods of value to us. No one has forced us to eat nutritionally depleted foods and give up whole foods. And, no one makes us support the refined food industry, which is actually starving us to death. Let's take a closer look at refined foods... |
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