In the last hundred years we have shifted away from natural remedies to modern medicine. Economic activity grew rapidly during the 18th Century in Western Europe and the Americas. It was the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. During the 19th century economic and industrial growth gathered pace; it was also a period of scientific discovery and invention. People thought it was good!!!! They were promised cures, treatments, and a safer alternative to natural remedies.
Fast forward 100 years, we have few cures and their are thousands of different kind of drugs used for treatments. Very little effort has been put into studying the causes or investing in a cure. Computers on the other hand, went from giant room sized contraptions to paper thin devices that nearly everyone has access to in less than 100 years. After I pondered this thought for awhile it became clear to me that medicine, like anything else meant to be good, has become more about money than saving lives. That's why when you go to the doctors office, you come home with a treatment( pill) more often than an actual answer.
Fast forward 100 years, we have few cures and their are thousands of different kind of drugs used for treatments. Very little effort has been put into studying the causes or investing in a cure. Computers on the other hand, went from giant room sized contraptions to paper thin devices that nearly everyone has access to in less than 100 years. After I pondered this thought for awhile it became clear to me that medicine, like anything else meant to be good, has become more about money than saving lives. That's why when you go to the doctors office, you come home with a treatment( pill) more often than an actual answer.
The global pharmaceuticals market is worth US$300 billion a year, a figure expected to rise to US$400 billion within three years. Six of these companies are based in the United States and four in Europe. It is predicted that North and South America, Europe and Japan account for a full 85% of the global pharmaceuticals market. Its a huge industry backed by none other than........Federal Banks. Rockefeller was actually one of the big investors in things like vaccines and cancer treatments. These large investors also control the schools doctors go to learn, which makes one wonder about the true intent of modern medicine.
This is of course not a new theory, but many believe the intent is population control. The food industry and the medical industry play the most important role in population control. What you eat is the most important part of health. If the food causes sickness and cancer then the medical industry will never run out of people to treat. Its a scary thing to think about, but its happening at an alarming rate. Food labeling laws are changing in order to hide harsh chemicals found in food, Monsanto is making new GMO foods, and the medical industry just hit the jack-pot with genetic advancements.
This is of course not a new theory, but many believe the intent is population control. The food industry and the medical industry play the most important role in population control. What you eat is the most important part of health. If the food causes sickness and cancer then the medical industry will never run out of people to treat. Its a scary thing to think about, but its happening at an alarming rate. Food labeling laws are changing in order to hide harsh chemicals found in food, Monsanto is making new GMO foods, and the medical industry just hit the jack-pot with genetic advancements.
I'm sure you have heard that Angelia Jolie had a DNA test done that determined she was high risk for breast and cervical cancer. In fact doctors everywhere are encouraging people to do the same. Why? Money. Imagine a pill that was perfectly designed to "Fix" all your bad genes.....a drug made just for you. Or maybe you want a blue eyed child, no problem engineered baby coming right up!! The possibility are endless and they will charge big bucks for these things.
I'm not claiming any of this is 100% fact but its a possibility non the less. Which is why many are turning back to ancient medicine. Nutrition is key to maintaining a healthy body. The problem is the idea of what its nutritious and whats not changes all the time. Take for example the difference in the old and new food pyramids. In all reality people who think they eat health most likely don't. after looking into the matter myself and experimenting with my own diet, I have come up with a few explanations to support this idea.
I'm not claiming any of this is 100% fact but its a possibility non the less. Which is why many are turning back to ancient medicine. Nutrition is key to maintaining a healthy body. The problem is the idea of what its nutritious and whats not changes all the time. Take for example the difference in the old and new food pyramids. In all reality people who think they eat health most likely don't. after looking into the matter myself and experimenting with my own diet, I have come up with a few explanations to support this idea.
Meat is not a nutritional need protein is. We just believe our animals friends to be the only ones that have enough protein to sustain the human body. When in fact common day meat products are the most toxic part of our diets. Most meat we eat now a days is full of antibiotics and hormones that interfere with your body's natural systems.
The use of antibiotics in our meats is a concern. Some 60 to 80 percent of all cattle, sheep, and poultry in the United States will receive antibiotics at some point. Researchers are trying to determine if and how much of a role this widespread antibiotic use may have in creating antibiotic resistance of bacteria in humans. meanwhile despite this possibly the FDA continues to tell us this contamination is perfectly safe in small amounts. If you do eat meat stay away from name brand meats and by local or farm raised animals that are not treated with antibiotics and chemicals. Make sure the places these animals come from live in nice areas with lots of space and wide diet range. Most of our animals come from cramped buildings and small cages with cheap diets in order to optimize the volume of meat that these places produce. This results in unhealthily animals that need lots of antibiotics to survive their harsh environment.
Another issue with meat is we can no longer eat it raw. Any other meat eaters, omnivorous included, have the ability to digest raw meat. Scientist claim it took huge amounts of protein for us to evolve the type of brain we have, yet there is no evidence that we have to continue doing this to sustain health. Its very clear that humans could be evolving away from meat. Which makes sense meat is very expensive and its difficult to sustain without risking the animals health. There is a theory that our bodies can process meat but its intended for survival situations only. For example Chimpanzees have been seen eating smaller monkeys. At first it would seem that they do this by choice when in fact its only been seen in groups that have not eaten in awhile. Hinting at the possibility all omnivores may only eat meat if they need to do so to survive. Meat is simply survival food.
The use of antibiotics in our meats is a concern. Some 60 to 80 percent of all cattle, sheep, and poultry in the United States will receive antibiotics at some point. Researchers are trying to determine if and how much of a role this widespread antibiotic use may have in creating antibiotic resistance of bacteria in humans. meanwhile despite this possibly the FDA continues to tell us this contamination is perfectly safe in small amounts. If you do eat meat stay away from name brand meats and by local or farm raised animals that are not treated with antibiotics and chemicals. Make sure the places these animals come from live in nice areas with lots of space and wide diet range. Most of our animals come from cramped buildings and small cages with cheap diets in order to optimize the volume of meat that these places produce. This results in unhealthily animals that need lots of antibiotics to survive their harsh environment.
Another issue with meat is we can no longer eat it raw. Any other meat eaters, omnivorous included, have the ability to digest raw meat. Scientist claim it took huge amounts of protein for us to evolve the type of brain we have, yet there is no evidence that we have to continue doing this to sustain health. Its very clear that humans could be evolving away from meat. Which makes sense meat is very expensive and its difficult to sustain without risking the animals health. There is a theory that our bodies can process meat but its intended for survival situations only. For example Chimpanzees have been seen eating smaller monkeys. At first it would seem that they do this by choice when in fact its only been seen in groups that have not eaten in awhile. Hinting at the possibility all omnivores may only eat meat if they need to do so to survive. Meat is simply survival food.
The second misconception is that vegetarians are not healthy and a diet without meat could lead to death. Half of the population of India is vegetarian. Which in my mind is enough to break that myth. Vegetarians that do get sick usually are eating a poor diet. What I mean by that is a vegetarian needs to be more nutritionally aware than a doctor and monitor their diets carefully to make sure they are not lacking something vital. In fact we all should.
People count calories all the time yet very few count vitamins and chemicals. We all need to watch every chemical that goes into our bodies. We should be able to look at any given food and be able to spell out of all the vitamins in it. We also need to be more aware of the healing properties of herbs and flowers which are cheaper less toxic and have been back by 1000 of years of ancient knowledge and experimentation.
People count calories all the time yet very few count vitamins and chemicals. We all need to watch every chemical that goes into our bodies. We should be able to look at any given food and be able to spell out of all the vitamins in it. We also need to be more aware of the healing properties of herbs and flowers which are cheaper less toxic and have been back by 1000 of years of ancient knowledge and experimentation.
This is difficult due to the fact these companies pay money to make sure you have no idea something bad is in your food like chemicals and GMOs. If the Nutrition Facts section on food packaging list all the substances that go into a food product, how can they deceive consumers? Here are a few of the most common ways:
One of the most common tricks is to distribute sugars among many ingredients so that sugars don‘t appear in the top three. For example, a manufacturer may use a combination of sucrose, high-fructose corn syrup, corn syrup solids, brown sugar, dextrose and other sugar ingredients to make sure none of them are present in large enough quantities to attain a top position on the ingredients list (remember, the ingredients are listed in order of their proportion in the food, with the most common ingredients listed first).
This fools consumers into thinking the food product isn't really made mostly of sugar while, in reality, the majority ingredients could all be different forms of sugar. It‘s a way to artificially shift sugar farther down the ingredients list and thereby misinform consumers about the sugar content of the whole product.
Another trick is to pad the list with miniscule amounts of great-sounding ingredients. You see this in personal care products and shampoo, too, where companies claim to offer "herbal" shampoos that have practically no detectable levels of real herbs in them. In foods, companies pad the ingredients lists with healthy-sounding berries, herbs or super foods that are often only present in miniscule amounts. Having "spirulina" appear at the end of the ingredients list is practically meaningless. There‘s not enough spirulina in the food to have any real effect on your health. This trick is called "label padding" and it‘s commonly used by junk food manufacturers who want to jump on the health food bandwagon without actually producing healthy foods.
One of the most common tricks is to distribute sugars among many ingredients so that sugars don‘t appear in the top three. For example, a manufacturer may use a combination of sucrose, high-fructose corn syrup, corn syrup solids, brown sugar, dextrose and other sugar ingredients to make sure none of them are present in large enough quantities to attain a top position on the ingredients list (remember, the ingredients are listed in order of their proportion in the food, with the most common ingredients listed first).
This fools consumers into thinking the food product isn't really made mostly of sugar while, in reality, the majority ingredients could all be different forms of sugar. It‘s a way to artificially shift sugar farther down the ingredients list and thereby misinform consumers about the sugar content of the whole product.
Another trick is to pad the list with miniscule amounts of great-sounding ingredients. You see this in personal care products and shampoo, too, where companies claim to offer "herbal" shampoos that have practically no detectable levels of real herbs in them. In foods, companies pad the ingredients lists with healthy-sounding berries, herbs or super foods that are often only present in miniscule amounts. Having "spirulina" appear at the end of the ingredients list is practically meaningless. There‘s not enough spirulina in the food to have any real effect on your health. This trick is called "label padding" and it‘s commonly used by junk food manufacturers who want to jump on the health food bandwagon without actually producing healthy foods.
Hiding dangerous ingredients:
A third trick involves hiding dangerous ingredients behind innocent-sounding names that fool consumers into thinking they‘re safe. The highly carcinogenic ingredient sodium nitrite, for example, sounds perfectly innocent, but it is well documented to cause brain tumors, pancreatic cancer, colon cancer and many other cancers (just search Google Scholar for sodium nitrite to see a long list of supporting research)
Carmine sounds like an innocent food coloring, but it‘s actually made from the smashed bodies of red cochineal beetles. Of course, nobody would eat strawberry yogurt if the ingredients listed, "Insect-based red food coloring" on the label, so instead, they just call it "carmine."
Similarly, yeast extract sounds like a perfect safe food ingredient, too, but it‘s actually a trick used to hide monosodium glutamate (MSG, a chemical taste enhancer used to excite the flavors of overly-processed foods) without having to list MSG on the label. Lots of ingredients contain hidden MSG.
Don‘t be fooled by the name of the product:
Did you know that the name of the food product has nothing to do with what‘s in it? Brand-name food companies make products like "Guacamole Dip" that contains no avocado! Instead, they‘re made with hydrogenated soybean oil and artificial green coloring chemicals. But gullible consumers keep on buying these products, thinking they‘re getting avocado dip when, in reality, they‘re buying green-colored, yummy-tasting dietary poison.
Food names can include words that describe ingredients not found in the food at all. A "cheese" cracker, for example, doesn't have to contain any cheese. A "creamy" something doesn't have to contain cream. A "fruit" product need not contain even a single molecule of fruit. Don‘t be fooled by product names printed on the packaging. These names are designed to sell products, not to accurately describe the ingredients contained in the package.
Ingredients lists don‘t include contaminants:
There is no requirement for food ingredients lists to include the names of chemical contaminants, heavy metals, bisphenol-A, PCBs, perchlorate or other toxic substances found in the food. As a result, ingredients lists don‘t really list what‘s actually in the food, they only list what the manufacturer wants you to believe is in the food.
This is by design, of course. Requirements for listing food ingredients were created by a joint effort between the government and private industry (food corporations). In the beginning, food corporations didn't want to be required to list any ingredients at all. They claimed the ingredients were "proprietary knowledge" and that listing them would destroy their business by disclosing their secret manufacturing recipes. It‘s all nonsense, of course, since food companies primarily want to keep consumers ignorant of what‘s really in their products. That‘s why there is still no requirement to list various chemical contaminants, pesticides, heavy metals and other substances that have a direct and substantial impact on the health of consumers. (For years, food companies fought hard against the listing of trans fatty acids, too, and it was only after a massive public health outcry by consumer health groups that the FDA finally forced food companies to include trans fats on the label.)
A third trick involves hiding dangerous ingredients behind innocent-sounding names that fool consumers into thinking they‘re safe. The highly carcinogenic ingredient sodium nitrite, for example, sounds perfectly innocent, but it is well documented to cause brain tumors, pancreatic cancer, colon cancer and many other cancers (just search Google Scholar for sodium nitrite to see a long list of supporting research)
Carmine sounds like an innocent food coloring, but it‘s actually made from the smashed bodies of red cochineal beetles. Of course, nobody would eat strawberry yogurt if the ingredients listed, "Insect-based red food coloring" on the label, so instead, they just call it "carmine."
Similarly, yeast extract sounds like a perfect safe food ingredient, too, but it‘s actually a trick used to hide monosodium glutamate (MSG, a chemical taste enhancer used to excite the flavors of overly-processed foods) without having to list MSG on the label. Lots of ingredients contain hidden MSG.
Don‘t be fooled by the name of the product:
Did you know that the name of the food product has nothing to do with what‘s in it? Brand-name food companies make products like "Guacamole Dip" that contains no avocado! Instead, they‘re made with hydrogenated soybean oil and artificial green coloring chemicals. But gullible consumers keep on buying these products, thinking they‘re getting avocado dip when, in reality, they‘re buying green-colored, yummy-tasting dietary poison.
Food names can include words that describe ingredients not found in the food at all. A "cheese" cracker, for example, doesn't have to contain any cheese. A "creamy" something doesn't have to contain cream. A "fruit" product need not contain even a single molecule of fruit. Don‘t be fooled by product names printed on the packaging. These names are designed to sell products, not to accurately describe the ingredients contained in the package.
Ingredients lists don‘t include contaminants:
There is no requirement for food ingredients lists to include the names of chemical contaminants, heavy metals, bisphenol-A, PCBs, perchlorate or other toxic substances found in the food. As a result, ingredients lists don‘t really list what‘s actually in the food, they only list what the manufacturer wants you to believe is in the food.
This is by design, of course. Requirements for listing food ingredients were created by a joint effort between the government and private industry (food corporations). In the beginning, food corporations didn't want to be required to list any ingredients at all. They claimed the ingredients were "proprietary knowledge" and that listing them would destroy their business by disclosing their secret manufacturing recipes. It‘s all nonsense, of course, since food companies primarily want to keep consumers ignorant of what‘s really in their products. That‘s why there is still no requirement to list various chemical contaminants, pesticides, heavy metals and other substances that have a direct and substantial impact on the health of consumers. (For years, food companies fought hard against the listing of trans fatty acids, too, and it was only after a massive public health outcry by consumer health groups that the FDA finally forced food companies to include trans fats on the label.)
Manipulating serving sizes:
Food companies have also figured out how to manipulate the serving size of foods in order to make it appear that their products are devoid of harmful ingredients like trans fatty acids. The FDA, you see, created a loophole for reporting trans fatty acids on the label: Any food containing 0.5 grams or less of trans fatty acids per serving is allowed to claim ZERO trans fats on the label. That‘s FDA logic for you, where 0.5 = 0. But fuzzy math isn't the only game played by the FDA to protect the commercial interests of the industry is claims to regulate.
Exploiting this 0.5 gram loophole, companies arbitrarily reduce the serving sizes of their foods to ridiculous levels -- just enough to bring the trans fats down to 0.5 grams per serving. Then they loudly proclaim on the front of the box, "ZERO Trans Fats!" In reality, the product may be loaded with trans fats (found in hydrogenated oils), but the serving size has been reduced to a weight that might only be appropriate for feeding a ground squirrel, not a human being.
The next time you pick up a grocery product, checking out the "No. of servings" line in the Nutrition Facts box. You‘ll likely find some ridiculously high number there that has nothing to do with reality. A cookie manufacturer, for example, might claim that one cookie is an entire "serving" of cookies. But do you know anyone who actually eats just one cookie? If one cookie contains 0.5 grams of trans fatty acids, the manufacturer can claim the entire package of cookies is "Trans Fat FREE!" In reality, however, the package might contain 30 cookies, each with 0.5 grams of trans fats, which comes out to 15 grams total in the package (but that assumes people can actually do math, which is of course made all the more difficult by the fact that hydrogenated oils actually harm the brain. But trust me: 30 cookies x 0.5 grams per cookie really does come out to 15 grams total).
This is how you get a package of cookies containing 15 grams of trans fats (which is a huge dose of dietary poison) while claiming to contain ZERO grams. Again, it‘s just another example of how food companies use Nutrition Facts and ingredients lists to deceive, not inform, consumers.
By taking back control of our nutrition we can greatly reduce the risk of decease, cancer,and sickness within our bodies. I firmly believe that if the body is properly feed it has the ability to heal itself better than any pill or treatment modern medicine has to offer.
If this article interest you watch this months documentary of the month.
Food companies have also figured out how to manipulate the serving size of foods in order to make it appear that their products are devoid of harmful ingredients like trans fatty acids. The FDA, you see, created a loophole for reporting trans fatty acids on the label: Any food containing 0.5 grams or less of trans fatty acids per serving is allowed to claim ZERO trans fats on the label. That‘s FDA logic for you, where 0.5 = 0. But fuzzy math isn't the only game played by the FDA to protect the commercial interests of the industry is claims to regulate.
Exploiting this 0.5 gram loophole, companies arbitrarily reduce the serving sizes of their foods to ridiculous levels -- just enough to bring the trans fats down to 0.5 grams per serving. Then they loudly proclaim on the front of the box, "ZERO Trans Fats!" In reality, the product may be loaded with trans fats (found in hydrogenated oils), but the serving size has been reduced to a weight that might only be appropriate for feeding a ground squirrel, not a human being.
The next time you pick up a grocery product, checking out the "No. of servings" line in the Nutrition Facts box. You‘ll likely find some ridiculously high number there that has nothing to do with reality. A cookie manufacturer, for example, might claim that one cookie is an entire "serving" of cookies. But do you know anyone who actually eats just one cookie? If one cookie contains 0.5 grams of trans fatty acids, the manufacturer can claim the entire package of cookies is "Trans Fat FREE!" In reality, however, the package might contain 30 cookies, each with 0.5 grams of trans fats, which comes out to 15 grams total in the package (but that assumes people can actually do math, which is of course made all the more difficult by the fact that hydrogenated oils actually harm the brain. But trust me: 30 cookies x 0.5 grams per cookie really does come out to 15 grams total).
This is how you get a package of cookies containing 15 grams of trans fats (which is a huge dose of dietary poison) while claiming to contain ZERO grams. Again, it‘s just another example of how food companies use Nutrition Facts and ingredients lists to deceive, not inform, consumers.
By taking back control of our nutrition we can greatly reduce the risk of decease, cancer,and sickness within our bodies. I firmly believe that if the body is properly feed it has the ability to heal itself better than any pill or treatment modern medicine has to offer.
If this article interest you watch this months documentary of the month.