Warning: This article may shock you!
Over the past few months I have been doing a lot of research into commercial food practices and I was shocked to say the least! I have decided to write this article to share some of my findings as I believe education is the key to optimal health.
The world is diseased and millions of people are dying from heart disease, cancer and pharmaceutical drugs. Many of these diseases can be prevented with the lifestyle choices we make and the foods we eat. I am sure all of you know someone who has been effected by cancer or heart disease. These diseases are preventable and curable and nutrition is the answer!
Some of the information that I share with you may be alarming and shocking to you (I know it was for me). My intention is to simply share the facts and allow you to do your own research and come to your own conclusions.
Fruits and Vegetables
Commercial Fruits and Vegetables are grown in soil that has been depleted of more than 80% of the minerals and microorganisms. This leads to fruits and vegetables that contain 80% less vitamins and minerals (when compared to Organically grown produce). You may think you are eating healthy but the truth is you are probably lacking many key nutrients in your diet.
The fruits and vegetables are very sick and nature has an amazing way of dealing with sick foods. The fruits and vegetables do not contain adequate nutrition so nature’s way of solving this problem is to send bugs and insects in to attack the plants and return them back to the soil. Commercial Farmers obviously want to protect their crops so they use a wide range of pesticides, herbicides and fungicides to eliminate the bugs and insects from destroying the crops. When you eat commercially grown fruits and vegetables you are getting very little nutritional value and you are filling your body with a wide range of toxins that are detrimental to your health.
The transit time from commercial farm to your local grocery store can often be weeks (or many months). To slow the ripening process fruits and vegetables are coated with a toxic array of chemicals. Many fruits and vegetables are also artificially coloured to ensure they appear healthy and edible (have you ever noticed the waxy residue on apples? This is a toxic combination of chemicals to enhance appearance and slow down the ripening process).
Commercial Meats
Commercial farming and mass production of meat has lead to incredibly poor quality and cruelty to animals. Cows are packed into huge holding yards and are unable to move. They are living in their own faeces. The cows get no exercise, no grass and are grain fed. They are very sick and to keep them alive they are pumped full of antibiotics (provided by pharmaceutical companies). When we eat the meat we ingest these antibiotics in large quantities and this has a dramatic impact on our health.
Cows are sold by the pound and many commercial farmers will do anything to fatten them up. Some commercial farmers feed cattle newspaper, cardboard and even cement dust to increase weight (these practices have been shown to increase bodyweight by up to 30%). When our bodies are loaded with toxins we put on excess body fat to store the toxins and keep them away from vital organs. Guess what we are eating when we eat the meat!
Chickens are stored in cages with their head out one end to eat grain and their backsides out the other end to lay eggs. Many chickens can’t even move in these cages and don’t receive any sunlight. Chickens often have their beaks removed to avoid fighting and cannibalization with other chickens.
Many meats have been irradiated to ‘sanitise’ them. A turkey is blasted with radiation equivalent to 150 million times that of a standard chest X-ray. I am surprised that they are not glowing!
Microwave Ovens
Microwaves have been shown to cause huge molecular changes in food that produce carcinogenic substances. Microwaved food has also been shown to destroy up to 97% of enzymes, vitamins and minerals.
For a full list of dangers from microwave ovens click the image below:
The 4 White Devils
The 4 white devils include white flour, processed salt, sugar and pasteurised milk. These refined and processed foods have been linked to a wide range of diseases including Heart Disease, Cancer, Obesity and Diabetes.
Highly processed foods cause huge fluctuations in blood sugar levels and are stripped of many vitamins and minerals.
These products have very high calories and very minimal nutritional content. This leads to millions of people being overweight or obese and malnourished!
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Canned Food
Canned food was very convenient for soldiers in the war, unfortunately they are still around today! Many people use canned and packaged foods as the main staples in their diet. Canned food is dead food. It contains no enzymes (due to heat treating) and many of the nutrients have been destroyed. The inner linings of canned food are also toxic and these chemicals leech into the food.
Pasteurized Milk
Drinking pasteurized milk is like drinking poison. Pasteurization involves heating milk to extremely high temperatures to destroy the bad bacteria. Unfortunately this also destroys the beneficial bacteria and enzymes while destroying most of the nutrients from the milk.
The milk is then homogenized, a process where milk is pressurized at over 4000psi to break up the protein and fat structures to prevent milk separating and cream forming on the top. This makes the protein and fat molecules extremely difficult to digest and the body regards them as a foreign substance. The milk is then treated chemically to hide the smell of the rancid fats and is also bleached white to cover up the slightly brown appearance. A better option could be drinking gasoline!
Plastic Containers
Storing or heating food in plastic containers has also been proven to be very toxic to our health. Chemicals from the plastic leach into the foods and these toxins act as estrogens in our body and dramatically effect hormone levels.
To all the mums out there – Heating milk in plastic bottles (in microwave ovens) can be extremely toxic to your babies. Consider heating bottles in BPA free plastic containers or glass bottles in a saucepan.
Fast Food
I talked about the commercial farming methods for meat production. A Fast Food hamburger contains all of the left over bits and pieces from the sick animals (I won’t go into details). This is all mashed together in huge grinders and then poof, out pops a hamburger! If you want to completely destroy your health then I recommend eating fast foods on a consistent basis!
Acidic Foods
Most disease is caused by a diet high in acid forming foods (highly processed foods, meats, dairy, fast food, sweets, bread, etc). Our bodies must maintain a certain pH level to stay alive. If our blood is acidic our bodies must neutralise this acid. To do this it leeches calcium from the bones and uses the phosphate to increase the pH level. This leaves free calcium circulating in the blood which combines with cholesterol and blocks arteries (the cause of heart disease). This can also lead to osteoporosis.
Okay, so you might be thinking, what can I eat then? Am I going to starve to death?
The good news is that there is a wide range of amazing food that is readily available. You just need to become more conscious of what you are purchasing at the supermarket and what is going in to your body.
Top 10 Tips for Optimal Health
1. Buy a wide range of certified organic fruits and vegetables. Yes, they cost more money but how much do you value your health?
2. Avoid highly processed / packaged foods as these have been loaded with chemicals and preservatives. Most of these foods are dead and have lost the majority of their nutritional content.
3. Buy organic free range meats. These animals have been treated humanly and do not contain chemicals or antibiotics. They have also avoided irradiation.
4. Filter your water to remove chemicals and fluoride
5. Try to eat 60 – 70% of your foods raw. Cooking food kills enzymes and denatures proteins.
6. Avoid anything with artificial sweeteners (especially Aspartame). These sweeteners have been linked to several diseases including cancer.
7. Minimize consumption of empty calorie foods containing excess white flour, sugar and salt
8. Throw out your microwave oven and choose a convection oven instead
9. Avoid pasteurized milk products and choose certified organic whole milk products in their original state
10. Eat a diet high in alkaline based foods such as fruits and vegetables (especially leafy green vegies).
If it wasn’t around 10,000 years ago, think twice about eating it!
I believe that all disease is a result of malnutrition and stress. The pharmaceutical industry is a huge scam and they are making billions of dollars at the expense of our health (I won’t get into that now, I will leave that for another article!).
We have the power to choose what goes in our mouths and we also have the power to educate others to make informed decisions about our health. By purchasing foods from commercial farmers we are supporting the cruelty to animals and the use of chemicals and pecticides on our foods.
Make a decision to support local farmers with certified organic foods and we can all make a difference!
My health is my number one priority and I am passionate about sharing this information with as many people as possible. If you enjoyed this article please help me to spread the word by sharing / liking this on Facebook, Twitter and other Social Networks. I would also love to hear your comments below and please feel free to share any resources that you come across.
Remember – You are What You Eat!
I recommend purchasing the video ‘Food Matters’ for further education. Click the link below and watch the video for a preview:
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25. June 2010
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