Today I watched a TV show on food, I like the show, it can be inspiring.
However, I was so horrified watching the chef put together a dessert.
The amount of sugar was simply breath taking in ONE portion!
But not only sugar (which there were two dishes of) – but in ONE portion
there were 4 egg whites!! Not only extremely binding for some, but really in
this climate 4 Eggs in one desert that you don’t even need! It also contained:
A sponge base – more sugar, Ice cream and Fruit juice sauce with added sugar
(another dish) I am sure that the chef does not intend for anyone to suffer the ill
effects of so much sugar, it looked and tasted great to the guests.
On no here I go on my soap box.
We live in an age where it is hard to work out what is best for health.
Manufacturers have driven down the health of millions of people in
their efforts to make more and more profit, convincing people
that their foods are safe.
Many of the so-called ‘Foods’ are not real foods they are nutrient
empty and are so unnatural they are toxic to the body.
Thirty years ago it was decided that fats were bad and carbs were good.
The ‘Food Pyramid’ changed and encouraged people to eat more grains and carbs
and less fat. It was at this point that the obesity epidemic began – poor research
and poor understanding of the human body on top of an unwillingness to
re look at the claims made so many years ago is fuelling the epidemic.
Some manufacturers of ‘Junk’ foods, sugary foods and refined carbohydrates
are so globally big (Some being bigger and richer than Sweden!) It has become
very difficult to bring legislation that can change the enormous amounts of
foods produced that are some of the main causes of ill-health.
Organic foods are normal foods, they are closer in quality to the foods grown
before the war. Mass produced foods, including fruits and vegetable that do
not have the organic badge, have fewer nutrients and many more pesticides and
heavy metals, and many are damaging to the natural environment due to the
growing methods. There are media stories that make organic foods seem
pretentious and unnecessary – yes they are more expensive – but you will
avoid consuming an enormous amount of cancer causing, immune disruptive
toxic pesticides, fertilisers and other nasties, and the workers
get paid a proper wage.
In some countries where we get tropical and other non-seasonal fruits,
the environment where foods are grown, has become so toxic that those
people living in the surrounding areas have been poisoned and many have
become infertile, and are suffering with cancers and other terrible conditions,
as well as the poor workers being woefully under paid.
Most shocking but generally unknown, is the fact that around the world the
sponsors of the institutions that decide what is healthy are the
manufacturers that produce all the junk foods, the processed foods
the sweet foods. For further information see link below.
http://www.westonaprice.org/events/wise-traditions-london
Many food articles in news papers demonise natural foods like butter,
red meat and eggs. Unfortunately the general population are not
educated enough to know that many of the claims are false or not
the whole truth.
The press reports so many different stories about foods and
supplements and alternative therapies, many of them biased in
favour of either a company or the medical establishment.
Walter Last (a great food science writer) believes that medications
are the biggest cause of ill-health on the planet, and when you look at
the data on deaths in the US it’s not surprising.
http://www.healing-yourself.com
Antibiotic overuse is not only creating super-bugs which are a threat to
the future of the human race, but are destroying the natural balance in the body
making it hard to regain vibrant good health of younger years.
Painkiller overuse is causing damage to people’s livers, gut lining and general
overall health, but people think nothing of popping a few pills every time they
have an ache, a pain or a hangover.
Educating yourself back to a ‘Natural diet’ is one of the safest and most
far-reaching ways to create better health in the present and the future.
Once you experience how much better you feel after making dietary
changes, you can’t help but keep some better habits if not all, and begin to
realise that it is up to you to look after your health on a day-to-day basis and
not to rely on doctors who are there to do a great job of looking after
us in an emergency.
I don’t have all the answers, there are many studies that have been done in
the field of nutrition, but not enough money is put behind the industry to
prove that food and the way we consume it, really is the main basis of most
people’s health. It is because it is not seen as financially viable by successive
governments and not in the interest of the pharmaceutical industry who
invests enormous amounts of money into drug studies.
I feel that in time ordinary people will realise that what they consume
is the action that will have the biggest effect on their health and on the
environment of this planet.
You can regain control over your own health.
Everything mentioned in the above copy has research and much
material to back it up and is actually generally well-known, except by the public.
I changed my diet when my gall bladder gave me grief 2 yrs ago. I could eat little or no fat and in order to be assured of what I was eating I took the decision to prepare my own food from scratch.. I had 5mth to wait before my gall bladder was removed by which time I had got so used to my new diet I stayed on it.
Since recovering from the operation I have bounced back to the rudest of health. I have colour, no shadows, I feel fantastic and Im told look very healthy these days. Most of this I attribute to the food I feed myself. If you put good fuel in the engine, then you will get maximum performance in return.
Its really nice to read of someone with authority confirming my thoughts, thank you
Thank you for sharing this, my father suffered the same , but unlike you has not kept up the healthier way of life, no matter how many Nutrition Plans I write for him. His doctors have told him he can “eat what he likes’. The fact that he was offered corned beef and chips within 24 hours of nearly dying in the hospital, tells you all you need to know about the up hill struggle to convince people especially the older generations to change their diet.
I am glad to hear that you are now feeling great, well done for your commitment.