The most important thing you can take away from this blog is the 
importance of diet and to understand how powerful your diet is when it comes to fighting sickness and disease. Scientific evidence has proven this over and over. Not only is poor diet choices ruining our children’s health it is having that same profound effect on our entire society locally and globally.
Sixty years ago only ten percent of our foods were processed and at that time there were only four known auto-immune diseases. Today, over ninety percent is processed and there are over eighty-seven auto-immune diseases. 
As you can see, the majority of our foods today really have no nutrient value once they’ve been processed. What’s happened is that nearly all vital nutrients have been stripped of their health (life) giving benefits. The majority of people give little or no thought to what foods are best for them to eat. A good example of that is to look at the number of Americans that are considered overweight…over sixty-five percent. We eat entirely too much junk food and poor food choices are everywhere…they’re overwhelming and convenient. Processed foods today are easy, fast and often better tasting than a healthy alternative. Most of our eating habits are defined over time and even within the cultural boundaries and habits we’ve formed. Americans are eating out more than ever before…and what has happened is that speed has given into quality when it comes to eating. Fast food restaurants have exploded everywhere and what they
serve is far from the nutritional balance we require as living beings. Fruits and vegetables do not contain the same nutritional value they did 50 years ago.
The most dramatic recent findings is that heart disease can be prevented and even reversed by a healthy diet.
Here are some examples: in 1950, two peaches supplied the Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) of vitamin A for adults…today you would have to eat 53 peaches to get the same amount of vitamin A.
One cup of spinach in 1950 provided all the iron needed daily…today it would take 65 cups of spinach to supply that same amount of iron!
Reasons for the deficiencies in our food:
- Green Harvest
- Soil Depletion
- Chemical fertilizers and pesticides
- Refining and extensive processing
- Genetically modified foods
- Carbon Dioxide levels on the rise
According to Dr. Christine Horner in a recent article, Americans have stopped a number of habits that were highly protective. The reasons for this is because people are altering diets, shunning their native whole-foods, adopting highly processed foods and engaging in less and less physical activity.
“Sugar has no redeeming value at all because they found that the
more we consume it, the more we’re fuelling every single chronic disease,” Dr. Horner says. “In fact, there was a study done about a year ago… and the conclusion was that sugar is a universal mechanism for chronic disease. It kicks up inflammation. It kicks up oxygen free radicals. Those are the two main processes we see that underlie any single chronic disorder, including cancers. It fuels the growth of breast cancers, because glucose is cancer’s favorite food. The more you consume, the faster it grows.”
Research also shows that the types of fat we consume can impact our health for the better or for worse. According to Dr. Horner, bad fats in our diet are a major contributor to ill health. She lists fats that should be eliminated:
- Animal fats from animals raised with CAFO’s
- Trans fats
- Partially hydrogenated or hydrogenated fats
Good Fats: Healthy
- Omega 3’s
- Polyunsaturated – 10% daily
- Monounsaturated – 15% daily
- As always check with your doctor or dietitian
In closing, if you weren’t aware of the poor nutrient value of our foods today, we hope you will take a more concerning and educated look into how important it is to be better informed and educated when it comes to our food and choices. What are the benefits? How about HEALTH & WELL-BEING!!!
