It is a sobering thought that many of our diseases and health problems are related to how we live our lives and in particular to what we eat. Three times a day or more we are sowing in our lives the seeds of death, with the fats, the sugars, and the snack foods that we consume. The en add to this the other things that we put in our mouths like cigarettes, containing nicotine, and drinks with alcohol, caffeine, and the bromine in chocolate. It has been stated that our bodies are in fact only surviving on the few natural things we eat occasionally.
Many of our vegetables come out of tins or freezer bags and then we take the skins off our potatoes and throw them away. Pictures of famine distress us, with men women and children looking like skeletons for what of food, but we are undernourished too!
MALNUTRITION is a major problem for us and we do not know it. W e realise how this affects us, but not the cause. We experience cravings, anaemia, infections and colds. Our body systems are struggling to survive. Sometimes we sense it and provide an occasion boost with vitamin tablets. Our bodies require 50 or more nutrients and some say as many as 70, to function well, but for most of the time we give ourselves the barest minimum. To be missing even one nutrient can mean real health problems.
Have you realised the list of problems which result from our poor nutrition?
A sense of despondency, overweight, dental problems, raised blood pressure, late-onset diabetes, gallstones, some cancers, osteo-arthritis, varicose veins, constipation, heart disease.
Have you ever thought of the operations you could avoid too?
Surgery always carries risks.
- Carotid artery surgery is to clear the blockage in the neck where the artery passes to the brain; coronary artery bypass surgery is needed where other closures are occurring. Have you ever thought why these things happen? Because it happens to so many around us, we can think it is because we are getting older, like wear and tear. A great deal of this surgery would not be necessary if we chose to eat foods that did not clog up our living machinery.
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Surgery seems like the quick answer to regaining health and to relieving pain and discomfort and unpleasant symptoms, but there is the time of recovery, the side-effects of surgery that we had not expected, days off work and the financial result to us.
Heart attacks are a major cause of death. Bypass surgery is done to stave off a heart attack. The Framingham Heart Study said that 90% of all coronary artery occlusions can be prevented.
How? First, by stopping artery damage from cigarette smoking, high blood-pressure, caffeine intake. Second, by sharply reducing the intake of cholesterol and saturated fats. Cholesterol and the saturated fats are found in animal products only. The Journal of the American Medical Association says.”A total vegetarian diet (one with every food from plant sources) can prevent up to 97% of our coronary occlusions.” |
