HEALTH: What is a normal diet? Consumers and food industry pundits have it all backwards (DIET)

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What is a " normal " diet? Consumers and food industry pundits have it all

backwards

By Mike Adams

June 12 2006

 

I was describing the raw foods diet to someone the other day, and they

remarked, " Well I'm not sure I want to do that. I don't want to do

something so extreme, " and I said, " What do you mean extreme? You think

the raw foods diet is extreme? " Then it hit me: Most people think that

the processed food diet -- loaded with chemicals, additives,

preservatives, artificial plastic fats and milled grains that are

depleted of nutrients -- is normal.

 

In this article, we're going to explore what's normal versus extreme

when it comes to food. And on that topic, I have a very different

opinion than the masses. My opinion is that " normal " means what the

human body was designed to consume. What's normal is food from nature.

What is completely abnormal, radical or extreme is food that is made in

a factory; food that is processed and so completely unnatural that if

you throw it outside the animals won't even eat it.

 

That's the kind of food the uninformed masses eat every single day.

People have no idea what they're really eating. They think it's normal

to have blueberry bagels made with antifreeze. That's one of the

ingredients in blueberry bagels, and you can find it right there listed

on the package. Look for polypropylene glycol. That's antifreeze. You

can find other foods made with car wax. There's actually carnauba wax in

foods, and people think that's completely normal. There are petroleum

chemicals in foods in the form of artificial colors, and people think

that's normal too. People accept this as normal because that's what

everybody else is doing, not because it's actually normal for the human

body to process these substances. They think it's all okay because

that's what has been made standard by the marketing and advertising of

the food industry.

 

Overall, people have a very bizarre idea of what is normal, and you hear

this in another common myth, which is that all foods, even ones that are

bad for you, can be eaten in moderation. The food industry claims that

all foods can be part of a healthy diet. You usually hear this from

companies that are selling you the most disease-causing food and

beverage products in the entire food supply. Soft drink companies, for

example, say that soft drinks can be part of a healthy diet. They are

implying that you can eat a little bit of everything, no matter how bad

it is for your health, and still somehow be healthy. This goes along

with the idea that processed foods and junk foods are normal.

 

What's really compatible with your body?

 

When you are eating the diet that nature intended, you are eating the

diet that your body was designed to consume: A diet of raw fruits and

vegetables, nuts, seeds and leaves, right from nature to your body.

That's the only diet that you were designed to consume and that is

normal. Now, anything that diverts you from that diet is abnormal and,

in fact, anything that takes you away from that diet is going to promote

chronic disease.

 

So, one soft drink a day is less healthy than no soft drinks a day. One

soft drink a day makes a difference; it makes you less healthy. In fact,

it causes a lot of problems for your pancreas and blood sugar. A soft

drink a day promotes diabetes and obesity. It can promote blood sugar

imbalances, mood swings; violent, aggressive behavior (especially in

young males), and nutritional deficiencies, especially the B vitamins,

which are extremely important for your cardiovascular system and nervous

system health. In my view, one soft drink a day, even though the soft

drink companies say you can consume it in moderation, takes you away

from what is healthy. A healthy human diet does not consist of soft

drinks, nor does it consist of Big Macs, french fries or processed,

homogenized, pasteurized milk from cows. That is not a normal part of

the human diet.

 

Taking medication is not normal either

 

Human beings did not evolve to consume prescription drugs either. If

they had, prescription drugs would grow on bushes and trees (or the body

would produce them automatically), but they don't, which is a strong

indication that they're abnormal. Prescription drugs are now the

fourth-leading cause of death in this country, according to the American

Medical Association. Drugs that have been approved as safe by the Food

and Drug Administration kill 100,000 Americans each and every year. That

is an astounding statistic, and that, friends, is not normal.

 

Pushers of drugs and medications may try to convince you that taking

drugs is normal, of course. I've heard stories of doctors who would try

to convince you that removing your organs is normal. I know someone who

had gallstones. He went to see a surgeon and the surgeon said, " Well, we

have to take your gallbladder out. Don't worry about it. We do it all

the time. It's a normal procedure. No problem. "

 

So this person had his gall bladder removed, and I'm thinking to myself,

" Whoa, whoa, why do you think the body builds these organs? " The

gallbladder is intimately connected to the digestive system. It has an

important role, especially in the digestion of fats. If you don't have a

gallbladder, you're going to have some major problems absorbing

fat-soluble vitamins for the rest of your life, and surgeons don't even

tell you this information. They take out your gallbladder and fail to

warn you to take nutritional supplements to compensate for the loss your

body has sustained.

 

Society has been distorted by the food industry, which is why artificial

foods are " normal " and vegetables are " extreme "

 

We have a very strange culture in America today. People think that

processed, manufactured, artificial foods -- the foods with

cancer-causing chemicals -- are completely normal. Yet, at the same

time, they think that foods from nature, for which your body has a

built-in blueprint of compatibility, are completely abnormal. That's how

distorted our culture has become. That's how the food industry, the FDA,

the USDA and all the other organizations that are colluding to misinform

people, have managed to turn the truth upside down. They've managed to

convince people that true is false and false is true; that normal is

extreme and that extreme is normal, and they've done a very good job of it.

 

Now what happens if you eat natural food for which your body was

designed? If you return to a lifestyle of foods from nature in their

uncooked form, you will find yourself moving rapidly towards a state of

perfect human health. It's no exaggeration. If you give up all processed

food, completely, 100 percent; if you give up all animal products 100

percent, plus all cooked foods 100 percent and eat nothing but fresh

vegetables, fruit, nuts, seeds, leaves and tubers from nature, you will

rapidly enhance your health, reverse degenerative disease and utterly

eliminate your need for prescription drugs.

 

What is health really? Health is a state of harmony between you and the

natural environment. That's really the true measure of health. Doesn't

it make sense that to attain a high state of health, you should consume

the foods for which your body was naturally designed? It's built into

your genes. You have a genetic blueprint to consume low-glycemic foods,

high-fiber foods, foods with natural minerals, vitamins and

phytonutrients. This compatibility is in your genes. Unprocessed,

uncooked foods right out of nature are what you are designed to consume.

So it only makes sense that, as you move closer to that diet -- known as

the raw foods vegan diet -- you will attain a state of perfect harmony

with yourself. It only makes sense that any deviation from that --

processed foods, factory foods, foods with a long shelf life, etc. --

will take you away from a state of perfect health.

 

That is why we have so much chronic disease and strange behavior in the

population today. What you eat affects how you think; it affects your

behavior, moods and level of aggression. This is all influenced by your

food choice. Obviously if you want a state of perfect health, you have

to eat the food that you're compatible with. The natural, raw foods

vegan diet right out of nature is innately compatible with human biology.

 

Hot dogs and other deviant foods

 

You want to know what's truly dietarily deviant? Taking the carcass of a

cow that's been shot up with hormones and antibiotics, that has been

denied sunlight and a healthy environment, and squeezing that carcass

through an advanced meat-recovery (AMR) machine so that the juice comes

out of every bone and spinal cord tissue, then capturing the juice,

blending it with other cow parts, pressing it into the shape of a hot

dog, adding cancer-causing sodium nitrite to make it turn red, packaging

it in plastic and calling it food. That's extreme. That's not even food;

that's some kind of manufactured horror that I wouldn't touch. I didn't

even mention all the chemicals they add in there, and all the other cow

parts like lips, hoofs and anything that counts as protein. It's amazing

what is considered " meat " in the food industry these days.

Astonishingly, most consumers think eating a hot dog is " normal " but

eating raw okra is weird.

 

Let me give you another example of what's extreme: Taking a grain of

wheat from the grasses of nature, stripping away virtually all the

nutrition in that wheat berry -- the fiber, the healthy oils, the

protein content, all the vitamins and minerals -- and leaving only a

high carbohydrate, nutritionally depleted endosperm, then grinding that

into flour, bleaching it with chemicals that cause diabetes, and using

it to make cereals, crackers, cookies, biscuits, pasta and all sorts of

other groceries that you find at the store.

 

That is extreme. That is abnormal. It is completely incompatible with

the human body, yet most people consider those foods to be normal. They

think macaroni and cheese is normal. Here are some of its ingredients:

Petroleum products, processed salt, nerve toxins and chemicals that, in

a different variation, are used to pave roads. Similarly, people have no

idea what's in their powdered coffee creamer. It's almost pure

hydrogenated oils and corn syrup solids. That's it. It's just sugar and

plastic fat. I believe instant creamer delivers instant harm to the

health of anyone foolish enough to put it in their coffee. Ultimately,

the consumption of hydrogenated oils and refines sugars can lead to

diabetes, heart disease, arteriosclerosis, nervous system disorders,

mood swings and birth defects due to malabsorption of essential fatty acids

 

People can't seem to grasp the abnormality of a diet that is completely

incompatible with nature

 

People think it's normal to drink three cups of coffee a day. They think

it's normal to drink soda for breakfast. People think it's normal to eat

meat five days a week, or nacho chips laced with chemical excitotoxins

and artificial color. But none of this is normal. This is all extreme.

This is all a dangerous deviation from the diet that's truly natural and

normal.

 

The only people truly eating a " normal " diet today are the vegans.

Everybody else is eating some deviation from that normal diet, yet they

think a vegan diet is " extreme. " But it's the standard American diet

that's blatantly incompatible with the human body. It's incompatible

with sustainable agriculture and balance between people and nature. It's

incompatible with clear-headedness and lucid thinking. It's incompatible

with internal health at all levels, including the health of women who

are pregnant and trying to give life to another being.

 

Now, in another sense, the standard American diet of death and disease

is of course normal from the point of view that everybody is doing it,

so the extreme has become socially acceptable. The foods that kill you

are the foods that virtually everyone consumes. That's why these people

think their food choice is normal. That's why they think that you, as a

vegetarian or a vegan or someone who avoids dangerous ingredients, are

abnormal or extreme. They, the ignorant masses eating death and disease,

think you are a weirdo for eating foods that actually promote clear

thinking and biological health. The irony is hilarious.

 

Only someone who has been educated in this information can understand

the different frames of reference that are at play here. The dynamics

can be a bit complicated at times. There's no question whatsoever from

the point of view of what is compatible for the human body, that

processed foods, restaurant foods, fast foods and snack foods are

abnormal and extreme. Did you know we have guacamole dip sold in the

grocery stores right now that doesn't even have avocado in it? How's

that for extreme? We even have purple ketchup. We have cheese sold in a

can that looks like you could use it to inflate the tires on your car.

That's extreme. Those are just a few of the many examples of the extreme

foods that people accept as normal.

 

Come to think of it, I suppose it's also " normal " to be taking

antidepressant drugs, cholesterol medications and diabetes drugs. It's

also normal to be diseased, mentally slow, emotionally unstable,

physically inept, cardiovascularly weak and spiritually bankrupt. If you

want to be normal, there's a whole world of people waiting to welcome

you to their way of life. Whip out that pharmacy discount card. Make

another appointment with your doctor. Be sure to tune in to cable news

so you can be told what to think today. And don't ever do anything

strange or odd that might be non-conformist, or your peers will talk

badly about you behind your back.

 

But for the rest of us who wish to live beyond the norm, there's

veganism. It's the diet of the few intelligent, lucid, advanced human

beings who now inhabit this planet. Raw foods is a big part of that

diet, although it's not necessary to be 100 percent raw. Veganism is

gaining momentum among the informed, thinking people of the world, and

you don't even have to be a pure vegan to experience the benefits of

this diet. Just experiment with it and see what works for you. There's

no doubt you'll find, as have millions of others, that avoiding animal

products, processed foods and manufactured foods, while consuming fresh,

organic produce from nature, is the surest path to health, vitality,

longevity and lucidity.

 

 

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