"Can't I get all the nutrients I need from my diet?" It's a question health practitioners hear all the time. Sadly, in today's nutritionally challenged world, the answer to this question is almost certainly, "No."

 

Much of the food we eat today is tragically deficient in the vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients required by the human body. 

 

Much of it also contains synthetic chemicals that are toxic to the body. Years of consuming these counterfeit foods have put our health behind the eight ball. As a result, we must not only learn to make better food choices, we must also feed our body concentrated whole-food supplements to get it back on track. 

 

 

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the typical American will consume calories generated from about 50 tons of food in a lifetime. Over 50 percent of those calories will come from refined sugars and altered, synthetic fats--substances a far cry from the plants they were derived from. In fact, most of the foods in today's market are devitalized, demineralized versions of natural plant foods and their precious phytochemicals. 

 

The reasons for this devitalization are many, including:

 

-- Farming methods that do not rejuvenate the soil. 

-- Chemical farming techniques that contaminate and sterilize the soil. 

-- Refining methods that remove or destroy nutrients from food. 

-- Chemical preservatives, artificial colors, and flavors that pollute food. 

-- Irradiation and genetic alteration, which damage the biological structure of food. 

-- Manmade junk nonfoods that substitute for healthy food. 

-- Agricultural and industrial toxins that contaminate food through pollution of water, air and land. 

 

After eating the counterfeit foods resulting from such processes for so many years, it's no surprise that many of us are in ill health. To turn things around, we need to:

 

-- Replace counterfeit refined foods with real, nutrient-rich foods. 

-- Get therapeutic nutritional support to restore proper function to all the body's systems. 

-- Develop the ability to recognize truly healthful food. 

 

 

1. Chlorinated or fluoridated water is safe to drink. 

2. Grains that are processed and refined are digestible.

3. Saturated fats cause heart disease, while refined, hydrogenated vegetable oils are healthful. 

4. Pasteurized dairy is nutritious and digestible. 

5. Refined sugar is harmless.

6. Vegetables and fruits grown with herbicides and pesticides are safe and healthy to eat. 

7. Animals raised without sun and pasture and given hormones and antibiotics are healthy food. 

 

 

Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, published in 1939 by Dr. Weston A. Price, is an enduring classic with a message that puts the people of Earth on notice: Eat right or destroy your progeny. During the 1920s and 1930s Dr. and Mrs. Price traveled the globe to all habitable continents, photographing and recording the insidious effects of the modern diet on newly exposed indigenous people, their offspring, and their culture. Dr. Price, a superb field photographer, made a stunning visual record of the physical characteristics of native populations living on traditional diets and the subsequent altered features of their children as these family units came in contact with, and incorporated, modern adulterated foods. Irrespective of the setting--a naval base installation in the tropical South Pacific; a new trading post near the Arctic; roads built to connect previously remote alpine valleys; or encroachment of coastal cities into an arid expanse of isolated "outback" (Australia)--the result of the contact and assimilation was always the same: the indigenous people were seduced into eating what Dr. Price referred to as the "foods of commerce" (refined, processed, denatured, chemicalized non-foods). Within a single generation, their freedom from chronic disease was lost and physical degeneration set in. The next generation paid a high price, and it got worse with each subsequent generation: tooth decay, tuberculosis, physical deformities, arthritis, diabetes, diseases of the GI tract, infertility, cancer, and mental illness. Diseases, often lacking names or descriptions in the local language, soon become as common as they were in the modern "civilized" population. 

-- Mark R. Anderson

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