Your Health Matters
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It seems to me that all the research that is coming out is pointing more an more to a simple idea of what is healthy. Basically are bodies are designed to eat natural foods, to exercise and to get some sunshine. We should avoid poisons such as cigarettes, and alcohol; driving too fast; and having sex with unknown people without condoms.
In years to come we will look back at amazement as to how the food industry caused us to get sick, our politicians and physicians did little or nothing to counter this. Of course food industry have the smoking industry to look to. Tobacco still contributes to 200,000 deaths in the USA every year. Their techniques of misinformation and muddled logic remain models for other industries.
Some questions:
Why are we eating 10-20 time the sodium intake required for our health?
Why a decade after it was shown that artificial trans-fats are twice as bad as saturated fats do we still allow these fats in foods marketed at children?
Why when it has been shown that fruit and vegetables prevent cancer and heart disease do we not eat these?
Why are we still drinking corn syrup flavoured drinks in lurid colours and shapes and having them advertised by cartoon characters so our children ask for them?
Why do we think that large amounts of fruit juices is healthy? Why don’t we just eat fruit?
Why when we have a dog do we walk it, and a horse we ride is but we allow our families to sit for weeks on end without any activity?
Why do we think that human babies might grow up better on anything other than human milk?
Why do we think avoiding all sunshine is healthy?
Why do we remove fiber from natural foods and then sell it as a medicine.
Why cannot I buy meals with brown rice or brown pasta low in salt and trans fat free at almost any restaurants.
Why do all salads come covered in cheese and unhealthy dressings?
Why cannot someone come up with a great tasting healthy pizza?
Why cannot some ask for research that altered foods are safe rather than expecting researchers to prove that they are bad?
Why would you think that meat from an animal hardly able to move is as healthy as a meat from a wild or at least roaming free animal?
What happens to plastic once I have disposed of it and how long does it hang around?
Why when we know that 80% of illneses are preventable why don’t we prevent them?
I look forward to hearing your thoughts about these.
