How Did We Lose Nutrition From Our Food Supply? – A Timeline

 

Activity Prime Purpose
In the beginning…
Each individual or family unit foraged and/or
hunted for food
Survival
Then
Families coalesced into small communities
to do better at the hunter/gatherer game
Division of Labour
More Assured Survival
Over time
We specialised (some gathered, some farmed,
some hunted) and traded
Division of Labour
More Assured Survival
Wider Variety of Foods
This developed further
Larger and more risky trading required capital
and risk sharing so corporations were born
Wider Variety of Foods
Profit
Which led to
Larger corporations gaining control of seed
strains, grazing and farming lands and
adopting strategies that maximise yield rather
than nutrition
Profit
And we now have
Very large corporations in control of food
distribution, manufacture, marketing and
retailing, growing low nutrient crops with
artificail fertilisers, pesticides and
herbicides in a way that is destructive to
our health, preparing foods with toxins and
sugar that destroy our health, promoting
destructive additives and ingredients as
healthy when they are far from it.
Larger Profits

 

Collectives, specialisation, trading and risk sharing are not necessarily bad developments. If you had ethical people involved all along the line there are advantages to grouping, specialisation, trade and economies of scale. It is when you introduce the prority of profit over the quality of the product produced that you have the problems we have today.

This needs to change. Every dollar you spend props up the current system and degrades your and others’ health or contributes to building a better system.
Please choose wisely.

Red Face After Drinking? A Dead Giveaway of Alcohol’s Damaging Effects

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It doesn’t happen to everyone, but for some people, going out and having drinks results in a deeply flushed face. Why? Because their bodies are not fully able to process the alcohol they consume, so an alcohol-related chemical called acetaldehyde builds up in their bodies. It’s the acetaldehyde that triggers the flushed face.
http://www.narconon.org/blog/red-face-after-drinking-a-dead-giveaway-of-alcohols-damaging-effects.html

New Findings Show Avoiding GMOs Improves Health

My new peer-reviewed piece (summarized below) may be the most important article I’ve ever written. It redefines how we think and speak about genetically modified organisms (GMOs), Roundup®, and organic diets. I know it does for me. Survey results reveal that 3,256 people reported improvements in 28 health conditions after reducing their GMO intake. Many conditions were “nearly” or “completely” recovered.
https://responsibletechnology.org/michelle-perro-interview/
https://responsibletechnology.org/irtnew/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Summary-Improved-Health-by-Eliminating-GMOs-by-Jeffrey-Smith.pdf

New Study Links Cellphone Radiation to Tumors in Male Rats

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A new report from the U.S. government is likely to create further debate regarding whether or not cellphones and other mobile devices pose a cancer risk to humans. According to a draft report from researchers the United States National Toxicology Program (NTP), male rats exposed to high levels of radiation similar to that emitted by cellphones developed tumors in the tissue surrounding their hearts. The report also found that female rats and mice exposed to the same amount of radiation did not develop tumors. Reuters first reported on the release of the preliminary report.

To be clear, this is not the first time studies examining the dangers of radiofrequency devices such as cellphones and microwaves have caused controversy. Studies in both Australia and India have found that men who use their cellphones most often had lower sperm counts than those who used cellphones less often. In addition, in 2011, the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer classified radiofrequency radiation emitted by cellphones as “possibly carcinogenic to humans.”

https://www.activistpost.com/2018/02/new-study-links-cellphone-radiation-to-tumors-in-male-rats.html

Gandhi

A lovely little anecdote about one of life’s more interesting characters.
When Mahatma Gandhi was studying law at the University College of London, a professor by the name of Peters disliked him intensely and always displayed animosity towards him. And because Gandhi never lowered his head when addressing him, as he expected, there were always ‘arguments’ and confrontations.
One day Mr Peters was having lunch at the University dining room when Gandhi came along with his tray and sat next to him.
The professor said, “Mr Gandhi, you do not understand. A pig and a bird do not sit together to eat. “Gandhi looked at him as a parent would a rude child and calmly replied, “You do not worry, professor. I’ll fly away”, and he went and sat at another table.
Peters, red with rage, decided to take revenge on the next test paper, but Gandhi responded brilliantly to all questions.
Unhappy and frustrated, Mr Peters asked him the following question: “Mr Gandhi, if you were walking down the street and found a package, and within was a bag of wisdom and another bag with a lot of money, which one would you take?”
Without hesitating, Gandhi responded, “The one with the money, of course.”
Mr Peters, smiling sarcastically, said, “I, in your place, would have taken the wisdom.”
Gandhi shrugged indifferently and responded, “Each one takes what he doesn’t have.”
Mr Peters, by this time, was fit to be tied. So great was his anger that he wrote on Gandhi’s exam sheet the word “idiot” and handed it back to him.
Gandhi took the exam sheet and sat down at his desk, trying hard to remain calm while he contemplated his next move. A few minutes later, Gandhi got up, went to the professor and said to him in a dignified but sarcastically polite tone, “Mr Peters, you autographed the sheet, but you did not give me a grade.”