Mother Nature Rules
By Jeff Garcia
Over 400,000 die from food containing ‘toxic’
nutrients in just 12 month - more than 100
million Americans are still at risk and it
cost the nation over $100 billion dollars
a year.
And ‘toxic’ is probably not too strong a
word!
And yet on a daily basis no one seems
to butt an eyelid, despite it still being
a serious major problem - an epidemic
in fact. Obesity, and of the self inflicted
causes of disease it is second only to
smoking. Left to current trends it is
soon to take the number one slot. And
yet, if the same magnitude and loss of
life was attributed to BSE (Mad Cows Disease)
in our food chain - there would be a public
out cry. And how can we have nearly 96
million web pages of information, diet
plans, pills and potions displayed on
an Internet search and yet be in the height
of an obesity crisis?
There can be only one conclusion - diets
don’t work. And yet people are still paying
for it in one of 2 ways, with their money
or with their health. Diet companies are
quite happy to take a dieter’s money but
are dependent on a dieter’s failure for
their very own survival. Some even say
diets are designed to fail. And now, there
is insurmountable evidence that many appalling
diseases are related to inappropriate
nutrition and obesity, and yet 60% of
Americans take little notice of it. Why?
It is because the act of eating presents
no emotion of fear or threat to life and
we are in fact genetically programmed
to simple eat! We are biological ‘eating
machines’.
So who is responsible? The food manufacturers,
the government or us - the individual.
In simple terms we all have choices as
to what we decide to put inside our own
body in the form of food, and therefore
the ultimate responsibly lies with the
individual in respect to their chosen
diet. Obesity is having a massive impact
on the western world at large with all
the causes well documented but little
in terms of real, solid and lasting solutions.
As a research specialist, we have severe
concerns regarding the current obesity
trends and have developed methodologies
the help combat the problem for individuals
based on ‘our’ nutritional inheritance.
We have existed on this planet for over
2 million years in humanoid form and for
99.5% of that time as the ‘hunter/gatherer’,
consuming a diet of predominantly meat,
fish, fruit and vegetables with plenty
of water as the main source of liquid
refreshment. Our nutritional inheritance
was and is still is well defined, and
perhaps has less tolerance to variation
than originally thought. You cannot so
drastically change the human diet as we
have today and not expect a reaction from
Mother Nature herself. Her dictatorship
rules ... it is and always will be the survival
of the fittest i.e. those who can best
adapt to their environment.
We have to also face up to the facts
as to the impact of three key revolutions
- the Agricultural, the Industrial and
Technological, the latter of which has
significantly contributed to our demise.
We no longer work for our food and far
from being scarce it is in abundance,
so now we neither have to. Effectively
we work less and therefore need less,
but as a nation we are eating more. And
here lies the nature of our solution.
We must go back to basics and steer our
nutrition towards a diet aligned to the
nutritional expectation of our body derived
over millions of years of evolution. Nutrition
and a life style that our body was designed
for.
This can be the only natural resolution
until such time we are able to engineer
nutritional genes to control appetite,
or alternatively accept a lifetime of
taking diet ‘miracle drugs’ of the future
to achieve the same aim. These natural
concepts have been detailed in a publication
called Glycemic Superfoods allowing everyone
to review their attitude and thought process
about their own diet and nutrition to
that of their inheritance.
You be the judge...
Copyright 2006 Jeff Garcia
Jeff Garcia specializes in providing
tangible solutions to the demands of his
client base through a comprehensive understanding
of specific issues and meticulous research.
His latest publication Glycemic Superfoods
can be found at http://www.glycemicsuperfoods.com
For more information email Jeff Garcia
at glycemicsuperfoods@yahoo.com
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