What Are Nutritional Diseases?Are nutritional diseases what you get from eating spoiled foods or drinking contaminated water. Like food poisoning? Or diarrhea? This can happen when you eat sewage-contaminated meat or spinach. With disastrous results. But that’s not what I mean. Well, what do you mean? In their book, The Modern Nutritional Diseases, Fred and Alice Ottoboni, retired Public Health Service scientists, list the following. • Obesity
These are modern nutritional diseases. ‘These are what we can get from eating a modern diet?’ I can’t believe it. This just can’t be true. Surely you can believe that obesity, diabetes II, cardiovascular diseases, stroke, and cancer are part of our national health dilemma. Just about every family in this country has been touched with one or more of these diseases. And statistics tell us these illnesses are increasing every year. What Are Modern Diets? You may not be aware that our diets, and those worldwide, have changed drastically since about 1900 to 1920. We have become victims of the food processing industry, advertising claims to the contrary. Modern diets consist of foods that are converted quickly to high blood glucose levels. These include white flour products, white rice concoctions, chips and crackers to name a few. Sugary foods such as cakes, cookies, pies, doughnuts, ice cream, and soft drinks, also contribute to a rapid rise of blood glucose. Hey wait a minute, you say. These are many of the things we eat every day. True. But since many of these ‘foods’ are consumed in quantities every day, blood glucose levels can sky rocket, become unstable, and obesity and its attendant problems may be on the way.
Most vegetable oils should be suspect as well. This is because of the drastic extraction techniques used by the industry. For examples of healthy people, that did not eat sugary foods or processed vegetable oils, read the series on “Isolated Peoples” (Button Bar on the left above), or click on "Immunity and Nutritional Diseases" below. But you will also find out what happened to their superior health when they changed their local diets for the white mans foods of commerce. Dairy Products and the Food Processing Industry One of the examples of food processing gone awry is the cooking (pasteurization) and homogenization of milk. I’m sure most of you think that raw milk is dangerous. It must be pasteurized before human consumption because of the exceedingly high bacteria count. The count could be as high as 250,000 bacteria per mL of milk. And most of those bacteria are pathogenic, that is they cause disease. The count is so high because of modern dairying practices. Pasteurizing such dirty milk does not make a good safe nourishing product. More details are given in the section on milk. On the other hand clean raw whole milk may have as little as 250 to 300 bacteria per mL. Most of these are good bacteria. This milk can be consumed straight from the cow, because most of the bacteria are beneficial. If given a chance the good bacteria will kill, or prevent the pathogenic bacteria from causing disease. Plan of the Website Do I have your attention now? I hope so. The health of you and your family may depend on it. We’ll begin a journey that will review research results in books and articles. For those who enjoy the technicalities, we’ll share references. It’s quite a journey. We’ll learn where we need to go to obtain the health and wholeness these bodies can give us. We’ll learn what foodstuffs to avoid to reduce the development of nutritional diseases. We’ll also learn what foodstuffs will help lead us to the health these bodies were endowed with. By the way, where do we need to go to reclaim the health with which these marvelous bodies were endowed? Back to the days when conscientious farmers supplied us with clean raw whole milk from pasture fed cattle. To receive information about the Real Milk Campaign and where to find real milk in your state click on the "Raw Milk" button, or on the "Raw Milk Cure" page at the bottom of this page. At the bottom of the Raw Milk page is the place to click for the new site. A new window will open. Back to the days when the family and farmers gardens supplied us with wholesome fruits and vegetables free from the poisons applied today. There's a health care crisis in this country. Seniors on fixed incomes don't have dental insurance. Thousands of children without health insurance are being made a political football. Those old enough to be on Medicare are told by some providers they don't take Medicare patients. I am absolutely sure I would rather have the health primitive peoples once had than to have access to health insurance. It is possible to have better health than what the supermarket shelves provide. It will require education, perhaps hard decisions, and changes in lifestyle.
As one lady said on a TV ad she has just one life and one body, and she wants to get it right. Her choice won't get her the best result. But for you it can happen. The road starts here.
There is hope, but nothing worthwhile ever comes without effort and dedication.
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