Nutritional Myths and Facts

You can get all the nutrition from your supermarket (orchemicals ingested by these animals is found largely in
from the infamous four food groups). If you believefatty tissues. (From cows that browse along highways,
this, you are a candidate to buy a piece of thehigh levels of lead - from lead additives to gas - were
Brooklyn Bridge.First, let's destroy that myth of thefound. This is why bone derived calcium is still not too
"four food groups". If that were indeed true, a meal atgood in the good old USA.). As we eat these meats,
Burger King would be "nutritious". No serious observerwe get these chemicals as well. How do we get rid of
believes this - but it has all 4 food groups. Would youthem - well, it takes extra vitamins and minerals to
believe that this absurd FFF (four food fictions) isexcrete them.4. Chickens are no longer the chickens
STILL being taught in medical schools and nutritionistour grandparents knew. Now, they're grown to "eating"
courses in all too many colleges? (Nutritionists aresize in a small cage, fed a "scientific" diet - not for
those wonderful people who give you those "delicious"nutrition - but for fastest growth. This results in much
meals in schools, prisons, and hospitals.) Need I saymore fat and much more chemical input in this fat.
more about this?Next, why can't we just eat healthyWhen my wife and I were cruising around the
foods from our supermarket? Need a few reasons?1.Caribbean, and getting food in native markets, the
Fruits and veggies are picked green and artificiallydifference in taste amazed us. It was not only the
ripened with chemicals. These same fruits and veggieschicken, but also the beef and pork. It was often
are sprayed with insecticides that are also deadly togotten from a shack with a dirt floor, and there were
us humans. We do accumulate these, albeit slowly, andflies everywhere, but I know that it was much healthier
it takes additional nutrition to help our bodies get rid offor us than what we are now getting from our
these chemicals.2. Many growing areas in the US aresupermarket. The taste difference was marked, and
overworked and are more than a bit deficient inthe lack of fat was noticeable.There have been many
minerals needed for nutrition, and taste. You can easily"disturbing" reports about cancerous growths and
prove this - just try growing your own tomatoes, ortumors in chicken and turkeys grown in these
even getting them fresh from some of the local fruit"factories". In addition, it seems that the automatic
stands. Bite into it - If the juice and seeds don't squirtpluckers get chicken feces into the machinery, and
3-4 feet, it's not really picked ripe. AND THE TASTE!both of these are passed on to us, the lucky (???)
Not at all the same as those blobs of red plastic youconsumers.5. Any scientist or even any knowledgeable
get from the supermarket3. Food animals are fedperson in the US can tell you that our environment is
hormones to increase their weight. These hormonesbeing poisoned by the chemicals we are putting into it.
are illegal for athletes to use, but legal for farmers. IfOur air, our water, and our soil are not even close to
that's not bad enough, consider this - about half of allwhat it was 100 years ago. All of these chemicals are
antibiotics in the US are used in food animals. I lived ingetting into our bodies in ever increasing amounts, and
Puerto Rico some years back, and when I found outit takes ever increasing amounts of vitamins and
about the very high level of penicillin in the milk. my kidsnecessary minerals to excrete them.6. White bread
stopped getting milk. Most of the cows there areand "Enriched" flour. This is one of the biggest jokes of
tuberculin. Nice hey?This factor of antibiotic use in ourall on us consumers. When steel rollers were invented
food is one of the prime factors facing us witharound the turn of the century, the wheat germ and
bacteria becoming resistant to antibiotics. Antibioticsthe fiber casing were removed. (It was then thought
are way overused and even abused by the medicalthat fiber was not necessary to health because it
profession as well as by food producersIn cows, pigs,wasn't absorbed.
and sheep, the hormones and antibiotics and other