Australia- The undernourished country
Approximately 60 percent of the population is considered overweight, and
almost one-third is obese, serious diseases are linked to what we eat
and kill an estimated three out of four Australians each year. These
diseases include heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke, some types
of cancer, and diabetes. The food we eat is killing more people than
anything else in Australia. This is something we can control, but
knowledge about what is healthy is confusing.
On one hand you have the heart foundation, Australian dietary guidelines
and other scientific and medical authorities promoting, low fat,
margarine, diet drinks, breakfast cereals, modified dairy to name a few
as healthy and recommended then you have me and other forward thinking
nutritionists promoting real foods and to stay away from all the new
foods.
Junk food is cheap, healthy foods can be costly and we have no one to blame but ourselves. We have created a monster food system that grows exponentially every year, where the cheaper the food the more that is purchased while the food that we should be eating becomes more expensive and something that is out of reach in most households. Governments subsidise the junk foods while doing nothing for the small sustainable farmers. Our behaviour as consumers is a key success factor in creating this deplorable state of affairs.
Whenever I talk to a group that have never heard me before I can see their eyes and minds being widened to the gullibility of their food choices. The health claims on many of the packaged foods that I wouldn’t even feed to my dog and definitely not my children are becoming more extravagant and bold with bigger lies. For instance Uncle Tobys Oat Crisp with its heart tick of approval has on the front of the box “Help Lower your Cholesterol Re-absorption” What the????? What is cholesterol re-absorption??? And if they are talking about the storage of cholesterol back into the liver please show me the study that proves this.
What we eat is the problem, now we have a great opportunity to transform it into the solution. The best starting point to properly define food for health and food for sickness.
Definitions
Real Food is for health; it’s food that is free of synthetic hormones, antibiotics, chemicals, nanotechnology, additives, preservatives, flavourings, hydrogenated vegetable oils, modified dairy and genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Food produced with integrity, using clean and fair farming practices, developed and harvested by socially and ecologically responsible farmers. Find these foods at your local farmers markets and organic produce store. Real Food is from plant or animal origin and not only nourishes the body but mind and soul.
Laboratory Food is for sickness; food that is engineered and processed to be more appealing and profitable. I consider laboratory food to be any food that is not Real Food. Today, Laboratory food represents around 95 percent of the food produced and consumed in Australia.
Money-Grubbers: Marketers using their talents to create distribute and promote Laboratory Foods. They are highly educated and extremely smart coming from the worlds best universities and their true intention is to make laboratory foods highly desirable, they have lots of marketing resources, so they have led us to believe almost everything they wanted, including diet drinks are good for losing weight, breakfast cereals are a miracle food capable of almost anything and margarine is far superior than butter. These virus’s of the mind which have been implanted into our consciousness have spread like wild fire and many people now automatically spit out the propaganda of the money-grubbers.
The Western World are a group of countries filled with huge contradictions. The tax dollar is used to subsidise food that is poisoning us and our children, condemning future generations. We perpetuate this by using our hard urned money to buy Laboratory Foods that in turn maximise company profits, which they use to stop any positive change in food production, perpetuating a system that creates fat, sick and nearly dead individuals. The large food, chemical and drug companies are partners in crime. As we get fatter and sicker the drug companies move in, to make us supposedly better. But the evidence is that the drugs don’t make us better, they merely mask the symptom and create a long term dependence on drugs. Some people have been on their anti cholesterol, anti depressant, heart pills for 20 or more years and it is done without question. The average Australian geriatric is on a miniumum of 14 different drugs a day. This is big business.
Sally Fallon author of Nourishing Traditions and health advocate told me recently that she believed people in this laboratory food-drug system are doomed and that future generations will either be sick or infertile and they will die out. People who are willing to stand against the big companies will be the survivors.
Fast food companies are the masters of laboratory food, engineering and processing their food like products be low in fat, salt and sugar while creating great taste. As long as we support these companies with our money the more they will contaminate our health as they have done for the last 40 years.
As food consumers we have been gullible and not very smart, we have been manipulated by the money-grubbers to believe that the laboratory food on the supermarket shelf is good for us, but in reality it is edible but making us fat, sick and nearly dead. The realisation of this diabolical state is the first step.
The consumption of Real Food changes people, physically, mentally and emotionally, it creates communities and prompts local sustainable, ethical farmers to continue their work. The most effective way to change current food consumption is to not buy into the money-grubbers persuasive ways.
Junk food is cheap, healthy foods can be costly and we have no one to blame but ourselves. We have created a monster food system that grows exponentially every year, where the cheaper the food the more that is purchased while the food that we should be eating becomes more expensive and something that is out of reach in most households. Governments subsidise the junk foods while doing nothing for the small sustainable farmers. Our behaviour as consumers is a key success factor in creating this deplorable state of affairs.
Whenever I talk to a group that have never heard me before I can see their eyes and minds being widened to the gullibility of their food choices. The health claims on many of the packaged foods that I wouldn’t even feed to my dog and definitely not my children are becoming more extravagant and bold with bigger lies. For instance Uncle Tobys Oat Crisp with its heart tick of approval has on the front of the box “Help Lower your Cholesterol Re-absorption” What the????? What is cholesterol re-absorption??? And if they are talking about the storage of cholesterol back into the liver please show me the study that proves this.
What we eat is the problem, now we have a great opportunity to transform it into the solution. The best starting point to properly define food for health and food for sickness.
Definitions
Real Food is for health; it’s food that is free of synthetic hormones, antibiotics, chemicals, nanotechnology, additives, preservatives, flavourings, hydrogenated vegetable oils, modified dairy and genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Food produced with integrity, using clean and fair farming practices, developed and harvested by socially and ecologically responsible farmers. Find these foods at your local farmers markets and organic produce store. Real Food is from plant or animal origin and not only nourishes the body but mind and soul.
Laboratory Food is for sickness; food that is engineered and processed to be more appealing and profitable. I consider laboratory food to be any food that is not Real Food. Today, Laboratory food represents around 95 percent of the food produced and consumed in Australia.
Money-Grubbers: Marketers using their talents to create distribute and promote Laboratory Foods. They are highly educated and extremely smart coming from the worlds best universities and their true intention is to make laboratory foods highly desirable, they have lots of marketing resources, so they have led us to believe almost everything they wanted, including diet drinks are good for losing weight, breakfast cereals are a miracle food capable of almost anything and margarine is far superior than butter. These virus’s of the mind which have been implanted into our consciousness have spread like wild fire and many people now automatically spit out the propaganda of the money-grubbers.
The Western World are a group of countries filled with huge contradictions. The tax dollar is used to subsidise food that is poisoning us and our children, condemning future generations. We perpetuate this by using our hard urned money to buy Laboratory Foods that in turn maximise company profits, which they use to stop any positive change in food production, perpetuating a system that creates fat, sick and nearly dead individuals. The large food, chemical and drug companies are partners in crime. As we get fatter and sicker the drug companies move in, to make us supposedly better. But the evidence is that the drugs don’t make us better, they merely mask the symptom and create a long term dependence on drugs. Some people have been on their anti cholesterol, anti depressant, heart pills for 20 or more years and it is done without question. The average Australian geriatric is on a miniumum of 14 different drugs a day. This is big business.
Sally Fallon author of Nourishing Traditions and health advocate told me recently that she believed people in this laboratory food-drug system are doomed and that future generations will either be sick or infertile and they will die out. People who are willing to stand against the big companies will be the survivors.
Fast food companies are the masters of laboratory food, engineering and processing their food like products be low in fat, salt and sugar while creating great taste. As long as we support these companies with our money the more they will contaminate our health as they have done for the last 40 years.
As food consumers we have been gullible and not very smart, we have been manipulated by the money-grubbers to believe that the laboratory food on the supermarket shelf is good for us, but in reality it is edible but making us fat, sick and nearly dead. The realisation of this diabolical state is the first step.
The consumption of Real Food changes people, physically, mentally and emotionally, it creates communities and prompts local sustainable, ethical farmers to continue their work. The most effective way to change current food consumption is to not buy into the money-grubbers persuasive ways.
