April 2, 2010

Useful Guidelines On Changing Your Life Through A Sensible Diet

In truth, we all know how important it is to change our diets, avoiding white flour, processed oils, dairy and sugar and to adopt a holistic nutrition standpoint. These products can cause aging and disease and their elimination can cause miraculous healing in those who are suffering from chronic diseases. These products also cause inflammation and severely damage tissues and arteries throughout the body.

Make no mistake about it, sugar and flour are deadly and can ruin your life. In an average year, 160 pounds of sugar and 200 pounds of white flour find their way into our bodies and our children are exposed to them from an early age. Without knowing it, they will build up such an that they will have to deal with high blood sugar levels and other problems. When our blood sugar level increases, free radicals begin the process of inflammation right away and the disease process ensues. It is very difficult to avoid these poisons that are included in all kinds of foods within our “staple” diet — breakfast cereals, cakes, pasta, bread, soft drinks, candy, it’s really sad!

These days, milk products are also culprits as modern herds eat tainted grain that affects the proportions of fatty acids in the milk. Imbalance is caused when Omega-3 fats are stripped out. One out of every two of us is actually allergic to dairy without even knowing it!

Our diet situation is compounded due to the fact that oils and fats have an excess amount of Omega-six fatty acids. Reaction after reaction takes place within our bodies, causing chronic inflammation. If we consumed them in equal balance as we once did, there would not be so much of a problem, but the sad truth is that we ingest up to 30 times as much 6 as we do 3.

If you notice depression, you can make a dietary change by improving the oil quality used. How about making your own salad dressing? You should consider using flax seed oil or extra virgin olive oil. Heated oils such as soy, safflower and canola can all cause inflammation.

The problems go on — grain fed beef, farmed fish and poultry all have excessive Omega-6 contents. It all stacks up to a huge excess of inflammatory compounds. Due to this inflammation, disease is rampant and we have to be able to replace our poor choices with healthy oils and fats.

Within the last couple of generations, as holistic nutrition has become ever less present in our society, we have markedly changed the way that we consume foods and we are setting ourselves up for serious and considerable problems.

We do not receive the nutrients we need as we do not pay attention to holistic nutrition, as pretty much everything that comes in a box, jar or can is processed and has nutrients removed. In place of nutrients, we find artificial colors and flavors, toxins and preservatives and our bodies have to work very hard just to remove these toxins and avoid a serious weight gain problem. There are even more elements added to foods to cause additional weight gain. Processed foods contain dangerous trans fats, high fructose corn syrup and neurotoxins such as aspartame.

Even as we try to maintain a productive and functional distribution system, chemicals find their way unchecked into our food systems. It’s not very nice to think of all the insecticides, fungicides, larvacides and pesticides that find their way into our systems. Our foods are low in nutrients, but high in calories and chemicals. You will feel drained, pack on weight and be lethargic.

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