Harmful diet of a modern human (Part I)

Modern society faces a number of health problems that are the result of an unhealthy and unnatural lifestyle. A big problem today are degenerative diseases associated with stress and poor nutrition. These include heart disease, diabetes and cancer. These diseases are epidemic and affect more people than ever before. Nutritional discipline is crucial if we want to overcome them.

Mass production of factory processed and processed food directly affects our health and quality of life.When we consume processed, low-quality food, not only do we not provide the body with enough nutrients, but we burden it with the difficult task of removing toxins and additives.Poor quality food wastes our vital energy.The vital energy used in the process of digesting and detoxifying junk food, and then in removing heavy waste without fiber, leaves much less energy available to our body. Less energy is available to our immune system and other functions. All this contributes to faster aging of the organism and a greater possibility of disease.

Modern society sees the huge variety of available foods as a sign of wealth. The more types of food on the table, the better. We need to return to a simple diet, with not too much variety at each meal. This means that digestive juices are secreted for only a few foods at a time.

We can assume that our ancestors ate very simple food. No doubt they loved variety, but they didn’t have the opportunity to combine as many foods in one meal as they do today. By simply choosing food rich in enzymes, their digestive system would function perfectly.

Food would be eaten in season, the ingredients were freshly collected. This meant that they were just at the right stage to eat. It is difficult to compare the quality of fresh foods with today’s early picking and artificial ripening techniques, which means that the nutrients are not fully developed. Some nutritionists estimate that a fresh organically grown tomato contains about one gram of vitamin C. The fact is, these days you’re lucky if you get 50 mg (1/20 gram) from an artificially ripened and stored tomato. You can see a dramatic difference in the nutritional value of  food according to the growing and harvesting technique.

Fresh food grown at the right time is also packed with natural enzymes. Enzymes are important catalysts for digestion and metabolism. Food without enzymes is devitalized food. Since enzymes, like many vitamins, are unstable, almost all of them are lost in stored fruits and vegetables.

Modern man has another daily problem, which is stress. The stressed state that most of us live in means that there is always some adrenaline coursing through the system. Therefore, our blood is directed to the muscles, in preparation for all our little emergencies. Under the influence of adrenaline, the digestive tract is less supplied with blood, which means poor digestion, indigestion, flatulence, flatulence and eventual illness. The need to solve this problem is inseparable from the need for good, fresh and whole food.

Furthermore, our ancestors consumed whole foods with a lot of fiber. This meant that their intestines were stimulated, and their cleaning was regular and efficient. On the contrary, the eliminative process in the organism of modern man is bad. The intestines are the last stage of digestion and absorption of nutrients from our food. Refined food does not contain fiber, which is so necessary for regular bowel movements. It is no wonder that colon cancer is one of the most common cancers in Western society.

The refining and storage process removes most of the fiber and nutrients from our food. Most B vitamins and precious vitamin E are lost in the processing of wheat and flour. White flour is not only worthless, it is literally toxic to the body. Similarly, all other processed grains, fruits and vegetables have lost most of their nutrients and almost all of their vitamin C.

In summary, our ancestors consumed:

• fresh, ripe, mostly raw food
• food only in season
• simple but complete food – not just part of it.

In comparison, the modern man:

• consumes almost exclusively processed, stored and artificially ripened food, grown on artificially fertilized soil and sprayed with poisons up to 20 times during ripening
  eats anything, anytime, because we’ve learned to have most food readily available through processing, storage, and transportation.
• he consumes almost no whole food, only the tasty parts
• insists on variety for taste, believing that taste is more important than quality
• he eats quickly and with discomfort, and the time he takes for relaxing and social meals, he drowns in coffee and alcohol.

This scenario paints a bleak picture for our future health. Why do we have so many ‘incurable’ diseases in our supposedly rich society, when we can see that we are not doing one thing that is essential for good health – providing the body with the right conditions to heal and maintain itself. Many people will be ready to hear this advice only when their problem is big and they are forced to change.