It’s Time to Wake Up About Food
May 10, 2010
It’s to wake up and take a look at the good ole’ American diet. When I say diet, I don’t mean to go on a diet. I think this is one of the worst practices in the human condition. The brain does not do well when it thinks it needs to starved or deprived.
But as Americans we have some of the worst eating habits of anywhere in the world. Honestly it’s scary! I’m not even talking about the fast food or the junk food. I’m talking about our belief that chemicalized versions of food are anything but poison.
Sorry to say it but they are and sadly I believe our big-bucks food industry has us convinced that these imitations of life are the real thing. They are not. Take margarine for example. In no other country does anyone eat margarine! Well maybe now they do, but only because they’ve followed our bad example.
Margarine is not a real food. Butter is. But oh my gosh we’ve been innundated to believe that butter is the absolute worst thing for you in the world.
Yet ironically people in other countries are generally far healthier than we are and they eat butter and lots of other things we’ve been told not to eat. But they have less heart disease and much less obesity.
Why is that?
It’s the way our foods are made that matters most. In my twenty years of studying food and how to get healthy – the single biggest factor of influence is eating foods that are as close to nature as possible.
That’s why butter IS better than margarine, but not if the cows are injected with hormones and kept in pens. See that’s where it gets tricky. That’s not nature.
Studies show that butter and yes even red meat, grown organically and raised freely are closer to what mother nature intended for us. Again it sounds strange but take a look around the world and you’ll see what I mean.
There’s a great book called, Nourishing Traditions that really opened my eyes about food. What they discovered from studying other cultures is that they ate many of the foods that we’ve been taught not to eat and yet they live very long live with little illness and almost no dental disease.
One example of a 
healthy culture is the healthy Hunza people of the Himalayas who often live well into the hundreds. Here’s a quote:
It is believed that among these people centenarians are a common occurrence, and that it is not unusual for elderly persons to reach the venerable age of 130. It has even been reported that a significant number have survived to the incredible age of 145!
I want to be like them!
It is how the food is raised that matters most. This was a shocking but life-changing revelation that changed the way I thought about food.
Many other wonderful books followed. I originally started reading this material because I got very sick and I really couldn’t figure out what was wrong with me. It was nothing traditional.
What I discovered was so shocking but so wonderful because it changed my life. I found out that it’s the foods we eat that make the most difference in our health.
I never knew that! Why not?? How is it possible that this most important information was hidden from me and everyone else?
Because like pharmaceuticals, food is a giant industry controlled by massive corporations who you can guess, are more interested in profit than in health.
Another wonderful book was written by Jordan Rubin who totally reversed crones disease which is considered impossible to cure. But did cure it and created a diet revolution. His book is great too it’s called, “The Makers Diet.” All of this turned my head around and I’ve been eating ‘off the grid’ for many years and am very happy and healthy.
Don’t worry, I’m not going to try to convert you to anything! It’s really up to you how you eat. But I realized that people might not know these simple facts about food and how easy it can be to get and stay healthy through what you eat.
In future blog posts, I’m going to talk about some of the wonderful things I eat that keep me happy, healthy, gorgeous and vitalized. I snuck the word gorgeous in there to see if you were paying attention!
In general keep it as close to the ground and as true to nature as possible. You are what you eat so they say and it’s really true.
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Did you know that US MD’s are not required to take even 1 course in nutrition from pre-med through MD schooling?
No wonder we have no idea how to care for ourselves nutritionally.
Great post ANNIE! My Family recently has gone to 90% organic and working towards 100%. (NOT EASY and NOT Cheap!)
If you “think” your GOVT is looking out for you and yours kids health, may I please suggest you watch this movie… http://www.foodincmovie.com/
Best, Brian-