In truth, we all know how important it is to change our diets, avoiding white flour, processed oils, dairy and sugar and to adopt a holistic nutrition standpoint. This list of products is very bad for us, causes disease and aging and it is amazing to see how people recover from chronic diseases by eliminating them. These elements promote inflammation and can really do a number on arteries and tissue throughout your body.
If you don’t change your ways, flour and sugar can help to ruin your life. Unbelievably, 160 pounds of sugar and over 200 pounds of white flour will find their way into our bodies in any one year and children get involved with this habit from a young age. Without knowing it, they will build up such an addiction that they will have to deal with high blood sugar levels and other health problems. With elevated blood sugar, free radicals swarm around our body, causing inflammation and starting disease. What we consider to be a “staple” diet is littered with these poisons — for example cakes, bread, breakfast cereals, candy, soft drinks, pasta — the list goes on.
These days, milk products are also culprits as modern herds eat tainted grain that affects the proportions of fatty acids in the milk. Omega-3 fats are stripped and an imbalance is created. One out of every two of us is actually allergic to dairy without even knowing it!
Our diet situation is compounded due to the fact that oils and fats have an excess amount of Omega-six fatty acids. Adverse reactions continue to take place within our bodies, triggering chronic inflammation. If we consumed them in equal balance as we once did, there would not be so much of a problem, but the sad truth is that we ingest up to 30 times as much 6 as we do 3.
If you notice depression, you can make a dietary change by improving the oil quality used. I’d say to start making your own salad dressing. Use extra virgin olive oil or flax seed oil. Many of the oils we use are creating inflammation, including heated oils like canola oil, soy oil and safflower oil.
The problems go on — grain fed beef, farmed fish and poultry all have excessive Omega-6 contents. It all stacks up to a huge excess of inflammatory compounds. As inflammation continues, disease results and the only way to avoid this is to replace poor choices with healthy fats and oils.
Within the last couple of generations, as holistic nutrition has become ever less present in our society, we have markedly changed the way that we consume foods and we are setting ourselves up for serious and considerable problems.
We do not receive the nutrients we need as we do not pay attention to holistic nutrition, as pretty much everything that comes in a box, jar or can is processed and has nutrients removed. In place of nutrients, we find artificial colors and flavors, toxins and preservatives and our bodies have to work very hard just to remove these toxins and avoid a serious weight gain problem. There are even more elements added to foods to cause additional weight gain. You will find dangerous trans fats, neurotoxins such as aspartame and high fructose corn syrup in processed foods.
Even as we try to maintain a productive and functional distribution system, chemicals find their way unchecked into our food systems. Just think of all those pesticides, fungicides, larvacides and insecticides that find their way into our bodies. Chemicals proliferate in our foods, which are high in calories, but low in nutrients. Little wonder that we feel lethargic, overweight and drained all the time.