The Rise of Processed Foods

Our food has gone from a natural to a predominantly highly processed diet and we have added three ingredients that did not even exist 120 years ago.

1) Refined sugar has gone up 100 fold in 100 years, particularly for kids. Added sugar wasn't really a thing 100 years ago. That's gone up exponentially. It's the foundation of our modern food industry. It’s in almost everything we by from the supermarket, and it’s killing us.

2) Highly processed grains were invented in the early 1900s. These are new inventions. As we all know, the processing takes out the fibre and the nutrition. The fibre blends to glucose and back. These are weaponised foods, glucose bombs, and they are killing us.

3) And then we have seed oil. Seed oils were launched on an unsuspecting public back in 1909, as an industrial byproduct. A gift from Rockefellers and the oil industry, which is killing us.

These deadly oils are much cheaper than good old fashioned anti-inflammatory, anti-cholesterol fats we had been eating for centuries.

Now we are eating inflammatory cheap processed fats. Our food has gone from a natural to a predominantly highly processed mess, and it’s killing us.

We don't get sick because we're getting older, and we don't get sick because of bad genetics. We get sick because our bodies are starved of the nutrients they need to stay healthy.

Linus Pauling, winner of two Nobel Prizes once said, “You can trace every sickness, every disease and every ailment to a mineral deficiency.”

When we run low on calcium and magnesium we get high blood pressure, we get low back pain, we get arthritic problems.

We run low on copper, we get haemorrhoids, varicose veins or aortic aneurysm.

We run low on vanadium and chromium we get blood sugar abnormalities, type one diabetes, type two diabetes, syndrome X, insulin resistance syndrome, whatever you want to call it.

We run low on multiple nutrients, we develop uncontrolled food cravings and become obese.

The Importance of Minerals

Minerals are only found in the soil. Animals cannot make minerals. And plants cannot make minerals.

A cow's body can't make calcium. So where does a cow get the calcium from? Well, a cow gets calcium from eating grass that was grown in calcium rich soil.

Now if there's no calcium in the soil, or just 10% of what should be there, there's going to be just 10% calcium in the cow's body, and 10% calcium in her milk.

Modern Agriculture and Soil Health

It all goes back to the soil and the bacteria that are in the soil which digests the minerals that are in the soil and makes them available to the plants. Then the plants can suck up the digested minerals and then we eat the plants.

So because of modern agricultural methods with extreme pesticide use, the soils and the bacteria that live in the soils, are being killed off.

So even if the minerals are in the soil in sufficient quantity, which they're not, the bacteria aren't present to digest them, so the plants are going to be mineral deficient.

If the plants are mineral deficient, guess what, the farmer uses more fertilizer, the plant is weak and unhealthy, so the farmer uses more agrochemicals to keep the bugs from eating the weak plants.

So it's a vicious circle. It leads to more and more and more and more and more and more agrochemical use, and weaker and weaker and weaker and weaker food.

Now when these nutritionally deficient plants are harvested, they taste like crap. So what does the food industry have to do to get you to eat them? Adulterate them with more harmful chemicals. No wonder we are all malnourished, fat, and sick.

The food industry is feeding us poison. Not fast acting poison. That would be too obvious. But slow acting poisons that take decades to kill us, so we don’t notice.

Making Healthier Food Choices

So if your food is tasteless, take note. It’s not doing you any good. So what are you going to do about it? You have a choice about where you get your food from. Exercise that choice. Stay out of the supermarket. Go to a farmers’ market or farm shop instead. Always choose fresh, organic food, grown on a small scale, on a local farm. Or better still grow your own. Your life depends on it.

Stop Eating The Wrong S.H.I.T. by Toni Hickman