The entirely of our existance as a human species is based on our food. The choices we make for food each day constitutes our diet. The old saying that you are what you eat has been proven over and over again and it has more recently been determined that you are also what you eat ate. For example if you eat a steak, you are also gettign the checmicals sprayed on the cows food. Simillarily, if you eat broccoli, you are eating the minerals and fertilizer that was provide to the broccoli plant. More on this subjec later.

The fact tha we are happy, healthy and able to live a good life has its basis in the food we eat. This fact was known in 400BC by Hippocrates, the Greek founder of western medicine. He was so focused on nutrition that someone made up a saying and attributed it to him which goes like this. "Let thy food be thy medicine, and thy medicine be thy food." While these words appear nowhere in his writings, those words are a reasonable summary of his words. They are being proven over and over as more research is done on how food affects the functioning of the body.

In the side bar you will find a link entitled "One Doctors Journey." if you have a few minutes it is worth reading about her discovery of this truth. I wish more doctors would follow her path.

It is unfortunatel that the medcial community has pushed out any condideration of how food affects our bodies to focus entirely on how various medicines can cover up a disease. It is like they believe that disease is causes by the lack of patented medicine in our bodies. They ignore the effects of the bacteria, both helpful and harmful that surrounds and fills our bodies. (Inside these bacteria are called the mictobiome) This microbiome changes in response to the food we eat because the bacteria in the microbiome help digest the food and absorb the nutrients among othe reasons.

There are two areas of life where myths and false hoods have been perpretraited with grest regularity, food and medicine. The paid for propagnda about food and medicine is everywhre from published fake medical research to "doctored" political presentations. It is said that any idea commonly belived was bought and paid for by some comericlal interest. While I have no proof that statement is true, it is nowhere more evident that in the food industry. These paid for ideas are so ubiquitous that most people no longer relize they heard them from an advertizement. You can see someof the slogans used in the footnote (1) below. Here are some others.

Eating fat makes you fat; Eating a low fat diet is good for your healt; Saturated fat is bad for you; Soft drinks can be part of a healthy diet; Lower your salt intake to prevent high blood pressure; Cholesterol is the caause of heart disease; Artificual sweetners help you lose weight..

You can find a discussion of the basis for these myths and the propaganda that created them in the section on Myths and Fables.

Whle it is tempting to jump in to a section on what to eat, I want to first draw your attenton to what you should not eat. In the side bar there is an entire article on this subject that was imspired by a one person experiment in eating incorrectly. I urge you you to give that section a close read as it expains many of the problems fe face in nutrition.

I woild now like to turn ot the subject of what you should eat and provide so baisi for my suggestions, I will start with the work of the Cleveland destist Weston A Price. Dr Price helped form the research branch of the American Dental Association. In his later years,he began to wonder why his patients teeth seemed to be getting progressively worse so he began a world tour looking at the diferences between various peoples and how that related to theor dental health. What he foudn was that people who ate a whole food diet had wide mouths and even teeth, but when the decendants of those poeples changed to a more western style processed food diet, their dental health suffered. You can read all about his work in the Weston A Price Foundation web site.(2)

If you would like a presentation from Dr Price himself, check out the video in the link (3) below In it he explains his findins in a littel over one minute. Then look at his biography for furhter informaiton on his work.

While I am not a fan of some of the later work of the foundation, I believe that Dr price was exactly correct when he said we eat too much sugar and flour, while eating too litte of the fats and proteins which provide the nutrients our bodies need, In addition, we have succumbed to the lure of ultra-processed easy to prepare and consume food like substances. The processign of these items further deatroy the health giving properties of that shoud be in all food..

Unfortunatly that is not the entire story. Even when we avoid the processed foods and try to eat the way Dr Prie recomended, we fail to get the nutrients we need. It is a sad fact that thereal food we can get today is not nearly as nutritious as it was during the time of Dr. Price

For the past 100 years at least, we have been searching for ways to grow more food on less land using less resources and making the food more marketable. While these are all good ideas, we have ignored the changes in nutrition content ot the food itseldf.

As an example, we cross bred tomoatoes to get varieties with thicker skin so they woud not bruise as easily. We selected varieties that had smooth skin and an even red color. We add extra nitrogen and water so they grow faster then pull then green so they can be shipped long ways then imerce them in ethelene gas to turn them red just before sale. No where in that porcess was the nutrition content even considerd. The concensis was that a tomato has the same nutrion as a tomato, no mater how it was grown. That had been known not to be true for a long time, but no one seemed to care.

Then we dicsovered how to geneticallly modify plants to make them resistant to herbacides. This allowed the farmer to spray the landscape with herbacide to kill the grass without affecting these genetifally modififed plants. This lowered the cost of production, but untimately destroyed the nutriiotn of the crop while addign a toxin to the food. Check out the side bar entry: Why Care about Weed Killer for the full details.

problem in food production Glysopate salt Fats cholesterol where the low fat diet came from - the McGovern report.

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