A Wellness Revolution:
We HAVE to Start Somewhere
Nutrition, weight loss, cardiovascular health, and preventative medicine are among the popular buzzwords these days. Rarely can you walk by a magazine or newspaper that hasn’t printed something about health or revealed the LATEST weight loss secret. The wellness movement we have embarked upon is just beginning, and it’s not going away any time soon. In fact, we have a LONG way to go if we are ever going to see America regain a healthy population.
Weight and appearance now define much of our social and economic opportunities.
Paul Zane Pilzer writes, “Incredibly powerful economic forces are preventing people from taking control of their health and are actually encouraging them to gain weight—forces so powerful that nothing short of a revolution will be able to stop them.”
Although America is a prosperous nation, we are among the unhealthiest people on the planet. Despite some of the greatest medical technology in the world, we rank VERY LOW in wellness care. Over 65% of the population is considered overweight and 30% are clinically obese. Even most people of normal weight are unhealthy, although they often times are unaware of it.
Modern medicine would love for us to continue to accept headaches, backaches, migraines, stomach pain, weight gain, fatigue, arthritis, and thousands of other ailments that affect our aging population. REMEMBER, this keeps them in business. What they DON’T want you to know is that the majority of these issues are caused by poor diet and lack of nutrients. The human body requires a daily intake of 13 essential vitamins, most of which the body cannot manufacture on its own.
Many people today make the mistake of eating for taste instead of for nutrients and body fuel.
Did you ever wonder why you can eat an almost endless amount of popcorn, cookies, Doritos, or McDonald’s French fries, BUT you rarely want more than one apple or banana at a time? This is because God programmed our bodies with an incredible hormonal system that signals us when we’ve had the nutrients we require. In other words, THERE ARE NO NUTRIENTS in most foods we eat, therefore we can eat an endless amount, because our bodies do not send hormone signals to tell us that we’ve had enough. The chemical alteration in food promotes obesity because of the massive over-consumption. Food manufacturers know this and sell billions of dollars in junk food to an uneducated public.
Here are just a few bits of information that you may find surprising:
*America has dropped to over 70th in the world, in terms of health.
*The number one thing doctors and surgeons fear, in America today, is “Being the patient.”
*Detrimental health effects of drinking cow’s milk or dairy products have been widely known for years in the medical community, but have rarely been covered by the media, which reaps fortunes each year by running ads for the American Dairy Association.
*Lobbyists for the food industries have created mandatory school lunch and milk programs that hook children on addictive processed foods.
*Pharmaceutical companies have helped create government-sponsored programs that put millions of children on dangerous drugs to combat the effects of their terrible diets. (In some cases, parents who refuse to put their child on Ritalin are threatened with losing custody of their own children.)
*Chemotherapy and radiation have only been shown to have a 3% success rate. YET, they are prescribed for almost every cancer patient. HUMMMM…that just MAY be a MAJOR moneymaking industry.
*Many surgeons today will perform unneeded surgery because they don’t get paid if you get well…for the SAME reason, most physicians would rather give you a pill for the rest of your life than teach you proper nutrition to make you well.
*One prominent doctor in Illinois claimed she “earned $35,000 last year in her medical practice, but made WELL OVER 6 figures from the pharmaceutical companies.”
*There is an alarming rise in cancer & autism in children.
IF SOMETHING DOESN’T CHANGE, this will be the first generation that, as a whole, will outlive their children, who are not getting the nutrients that they need.
So what do we do with a nation whose health care system is driven by the almighty dollar and the pharmaceutical companies? It’s time for all of us to take individual responsibility for our health. My prayer is that this small glimpse of our flawed nutrition and health system produces a desire in you to take responsibility for seeking out information, feeding your families, and becoming the health educators for this generation. Yes, it’s going to take some effort, some work, and some time…however, it will be well worth any sacrifice you make!!
Article courtesy Emily Stanford.
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