Food or Poison

The world has changed, especially over the last hundred years.

We’ve seen industrial revolutions, the arrival of electricity, technology, wars, atomic bombs, and our bodies have had to… “adapt”.

We have changed the way we live: we eat more and move less.
But most importantly: what are we really eating these days?

Data which emerged from the Rio 1992 and Rio 2012 world conferences showed that the land, and as a consequence fruit and vegetables, has lost over 50% of its nutrients compared to 50 years ago.

Unfortunately, rather than improving, the situation has got drastically worse since 1992, and everything that we eat nowadays is much less nutritious.

Even organic farming, which is still a positive thing, is unable to offer the same nutritional levels as 50 years ago.

We eat but we don’t get nourishment. We eat huge amounts of sugar, carbohydrates, proteins, but very few micronutrients like vitamins and mineral salts, which are the primary source for helping our body to heal itself.

Ironically, obese people are undernourished.

On top of all this, we are creating GMO crops – Genetically Modified Organisms – obviously in the hope of improving on nature. Unfortunately though, we have no idea what changes they might be making to our bodies.

95% of the corn produced in the United States is now genetically modified, and this is useful for the industry because – just think - it decomposes much more slowly.

Soya is another product which has been genetically modified and which is found all over the world. In 2007 alone, nearly 60% of all globally farmed soya was GMO.
When we think that we’re eating healthily and looking after our bodies by eating soya and soya products, we don’t actually know what changes we are creating inside ourselves.

Most breeding farms are industrialised, with animals growing up to twice their natural size, and in half the time.
Chickens, for example.

This can be done thanks to science, to antibiotics, to hormones – all of which remain inside the animal and which we unwittingly ingest.

Nowadays everything is farmed intensively: cows, chickens, fish, pigs, shellfish – everything has been industrialised.

The more food is processed, the less nutritious it is.

Fruit and vegetables no longer follow the seasons: in the supermarkets we can find everything, all year round.

We can buy tomatoes from warmer countries, where they are picked while still unripe and forced to ripen with ethylene, a powerful chemical hormone.

We can find beautiful, bright fruit and vegetables – but then when we eat them we remember that they tasted differently in our childhood, and we may even have forgotten that they did.

Science has given us modern drugs which, thank heaven, help lots of people and save the lives of others. On the other hand, abuse of these drugs alters the body’s natural biochemical balance, often doing more harm than good.

WHO (World health Organization) states that 60% of deaths throughout the world can be attributed to chronic illnesses caused by nutritional deficiency, even in developed countries.

Smog, pollution, radiation, serious nutritional deficiencies – all of these are seriously damaging the health of the human body.

So what must we do to protect our health and to reach a good or optimal state of health in this dramatic situation?

As usual, there are multiple factors which come into play:
First of all, we need to be aware of what surrounds us, what is happening in the food industry and in the environment where we live. We should read food labels carefully, check that there are no preservatives, added sugar and sugar products.

We should check that the wholemeal products we buy are just that, and most of all, we should find out where the food that we eat comes from.
Also, with a little simple serenity, we could help our bodies to maintain a healthier hormonal balance.

Sport and movement help our hormones, our bones, tendons and heart, to stay healthier. We were born to move, not to stay still.
A correct diet is a fundamental aspect – no over-processed foods, don’t always eat the same things, choose fresh food, few complex carbohydrates, lots of fresh fruit and vegetables , healthy meat, freshly fished fish, lots of nuts and dried fruits, legumes and yoghurt.

And then we are obliiged to take food supplements to make sure we get enough vitamins, mineral salts and enzymes, which are essential for our organism.
Unfortunately, as we saw earlier, nothing we eat is nutritious enough.

It is always best to choose natural proucts of the highest quality: they must be complete and in particular they must contain multivitamins, because one single substance would have little effect on its own.

Thanks to a new science called Metabolomics, a group of doctors and scientists has managed to identify the correct synergies that should exist between vitamins, mineral salts, enzymes and aminoacids.

Now it’s up to us to look after our bodies. With a little attention and awareness we can keep healthy and prevent even serious illnesses and diseases.

Information is the foundation of our health.

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