The Pros and Cons Of The Food We Eat

Within my lifetime, we ate from the land. Even though we lived in town, we had a garden, apple trees, hogs and milk from goats. We preserved all the food we could for the winter. How different we eat today with our supermarkets and such.

We are now fast food junkies. We live on what I call “belly wash”.

The food we buy must be fast, convenient and easy to prepare. We have slide from the soul food of the past to the fast food of the present.

This has led to a diet of processed foods filled with empty calories. Our foods are full of grains and sugars that are the causes of the overweight population.

We are now overweight with an excessive amount of inflammation in our bodies. Our health has gone to hell and back. It seems everyone has Type II Diabetes or has a heart condition or cancer. In my own body, I am experiencing the pains of inflammations. As I alter the foods I eat, the pain is less. I want to share with you what I am experiencing.

I am coming to the conclusions that many of our discomforts can be corrected by altering what we eat. It plays an important role in all our known dis-eases.

The diet I am experiencing now limits my intake of grains and no sugars. I am finding it very difficult to find foods that have no grain or grain products in them. Corn is in everything.

Corn sweeteners accounts for 55% of the sweeteners on the market. If you read the labels, you will find high fructose corn syrup in everything like breads, cereals, etc.

Eighty percent of our farmland is used to grow corn. Other than soy, corn is the most genetically modified crop on the market. We don’t know yet what the effects that will have on the body.

The word organic is the buzzword in the market signifying that the food is free from man’s interferences such as pesticides, hormones, special feeds, etc. This usually indicated a small farmer conforming to all the rules. Now big money is coming into the picture. Watch out. I don’t trust the corporate world; they are paper tigers without liability. The mindset of the people running the show is the bottom line.

I have been avoiding grains in my diet. The other night I was snacking on baked whole grain wheat crackers. My body rejected them by up-chucking them. I assume that my body is allergic to wheat, if I pay attention to what it is telling me. I had experienced the same sensation in the past when eating Rudi’s whole grain breads. I love to eat bread as a snack. Now I can’t.

Corn and corn fed animals we use for food are coming under scrutiny by the scientists. The studies are beginning to show a parallel of when we started consuming great amounts of grain products with our decline in health. Corn as well as rice, wheat, barley, rye and oats are processed to the point that the body converts them to instant sugars. In the process of processing, the husk and the germ cell are removed leaving only the endosperm, which is all starch. Starch is a complex carbohydrate.

That’s bad.

This causes a spike in insulin. This causes an overall resistance to insulin and an elevated blood sugar level. This leads to the physiology of Type II Diabetes.

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