Mary Frost, author of Going Back To The Basics of Human Health, said it best:
When people are trying so hard to do the right thing, why aren’t the results long-term? Why do they feel so great when they start taking vitamins and later feel fatigued again? Why are 95% of the people who lose weight unable to keep it off? Why are the statistics on heart disease, hypertension, and diabetes getting worse? My studies have left me to conclude that the 3 major culprits are:
- The harm that is done to our food before it even gets to us. The depletion and demineralization of America’s topsoil, the contamination of produce by excessive use of pesticides and fungicides, the chemicalization of food through overprocessing, enriching, preserving, and the contamination of water through fluoridation.
- Synthetic vitamins taken as supplements
- Low-fat, low-protein, high-carbohydrate diets
Where Do We Start?
Foods are not what they seem anymore. Consider these facts:
* In order to get the iron that was available in one cup of spinach in 1945, you would have to consume 65 cups today.
* An orange that contained 50 mg of natural vitamin C complex in 1950 now contains 5 mg.
In most instances, that lovely green salad on your table is practically dead nutritionally! We are producing less nutritious food at the highest cost in history while U.S. farmers are going bankrupt. How can this be? America’s topsoil has been depleted through:
- Deforestation
- Incorrect farming methods
- Overuse of fungicides and pesticides
One hundred years ago, heart attacks were practically unheard of in the U.S. Alzheimer’s disease did not exist. One person in 100,000 had diabetes, and in Europe, cancer caused 3.4% of all deaths. Now, about two-thirds of Americans develop atherosclerosis; 50% die of cardiovascular disease. Alzheimer’s is the fourth leading cause of death. One in 20 has some form of diabetes. One in four (28%) develops cancer – 500,000 of them die. Other degenerative conditions which have exploded in numbers since the turn of the century include multiple sclerosis, kidney degeneration, liver degeneration, and others. One hundred years ago, people ate fresh, whole food including plenty of meat, butter, and lard. But they did not ordinarily eat any refined, processed, or chemicalized foods, did not eat any refined and altered oils or fats. All these are not commonly consumed.
So, instead of running from one new “health discovery” to another and ignoring the way our forefathers ate, embrace it. Remember, over 100 years ago people ate fresh whole foods including plenty of meat, butter, and lard. Go back to the basics. It has been proven to work.
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**This blog is intended for educational purposes only and should not be used as a guide for diagnosis or treatment of any kind. This content is brought to you by the brilliant work and thinking of the pioneers of nutrition: Dr. Royal Lee, Dr. Weston A. Price, Dr. Melvin E. Page, Dr. Francis Pottenger, and many more for their ceaseless dedication to better nutrition and health!
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