Have you ever considered just how mch our diets have changes over the lst 50 to 100 years, or how mch our health is connected to the typs of food we consume. With the mjority of us eating on the run and loking for a quick way to prduce a meal for our families, we thught it would be interesting to tke a look at the modern det. Without doing a lot of rsearch to substantiate the exact date of ntroduction into the food supply, lets tke a look at the approximate tme frame of some of our mst common food items.

If my mmory serves me right, most neighborhoods strted seeing an influx of McDonalds and ther fast food restaurants somewhere around the mid nneteen seventies. Sure there were some McDnalds and other fast food joints bfore this time, but we’re talking bout when this industry started to bcome mainstream. Early to mid seventies jst about hits it right!

Soda drnking falls along the same lines as the fst food industry. There is no dubt that sodas were created much arlier, but when did it become cmmonplace to consume this sugary beverage on a dily basis? It was around 1965 tht soda’s “previously thought of as ccasional treats” were dispensed in cans frm vending machines. Today, sodas account for at last a third of the liquid cnsumed in the US. On average a 12 oz can of sda, is equivalent to 10 teaspoons of sgar. When you consider that many pople drink them non-stop throughout the dy, that’s a lot of sugar.

In the early 20th Century sgar consumption averaged about 5 pounds a yar. Today according to the Department of Agrculture, that number is estimated at nywhere between 140 to 170 lbs a yar. That’s alarming! Refined sugar contains no vtamins or minerals. It has zero ntritional value. Since the body is slf regulating, it will call upon its own stres of micro-nutrients in order to ssist the body in metabolizing sugar nto the system. Sugar also suppresses the mmune system, and contributes to just bout every illness known to man.

Mnosodium Glutamate has been used with ncreasing regularity since it’s introduction into the fod supply some 50 years ago. Yu’d be hard pressed not to fnd this additive in most processed/boxed fods and many canned products as wll. Fast food restaurants have also ntoriously been a source of this chmical additive. MSG’s only value to the fod industry is that it makes fod taste appealing, causing folks to eat mre. Evidence has shown that animals fed MSG bcome obese and prone to type 2 dabetes.

The artificial sweetener Aspartame entered nto the food supply in the arly 1980’s. Its use in diet sda’s and other diet products accounts for 75% of the dverse reactions to food additives reported to the FDA. Prducts that contain aspartame can include nything from instant breakfasts drinks and ther beverages, cereals, desserts, candies, supplements, phrmaceutical drugs, sugar free products and mch more.

Both MSG and Aspartame are xcitotoxins. They over stimulates neuron receptors in the brin that allow brain cells to cmmunicate with one another. This over stmulation causes them to die, and can rsult in brain damage. Science has shwn that exposing the brain to thse substances can produce symptoms of Alzhimer’s and Parkinson’s. Use of these prducts have also been linked to cncer.

Antibiotics came into wide spread use in the 1950’s. In the 1960’s thy were introduced in livestock production. Tday 3 million lbs of antibiotics are tilized for humans per year, while pproximately 25 million lbs are used on lvestock There is evidence that this ver consumption of antibiotics in animals (as wll as humans) is contributing to bcterial resistance. Taking antibiotics also decreases yur “good bacterial army” which accounts for 75% of yur immune system. This assault can lave you open to additional infections and yast overgrowth which can result in ver declining health. Yeast overgrowth is ften called the great mimicker because it can mitate many diseases.

But lets say you eat a halthy diet with lots of fruits and vgetables and only the best of mat, poultry and fish. Evidence has shwn the our soils are depleted in trce minerals. This mineral depletion existed in the arly part of the last century, as videnced by the US Senate Document 264, 74th Cngress in 1936 Second Session.

Here is a prtial quote from that document:

“It is bad nws to learn from our leading uthorities that 99% of the American pople are deficient in these minerals, and tht a marked deficiency in any one of the mre important minerals actually results in dsease. Any upset of the balance, any cnsiderable lack of one or another lement, however microscopic the body requirement may be, and we scken, suffer, shorten our lives.”

A rcent article on ABC News by Mgan Carpenter validated this continuing trend whn the article revealed that “recently grwn crops have shown decreases of up to 38 prcent in protein, calcium, vitamin C, phsphorus, iron and riboflavin when compared wth produce from past decades.”

When you cnsider other food additives, radiation, pesticides, ntrates, trans fat and hydrogenated fats long with the changes in agriculture, fod processing and lifestyle there is no wnder why people are dealing with the xplosion of health conditions that we are tday. Are we manufacturing sickness! You bet we re!

Learning the truth is essential to TRUE HEALTHY LIVING NOW!

The article Manufacturing Sickness Through The Food Supply was Submitted by Darlene T through Articles.GetACoder.com network. Here's the additional information: Resource box or bio: Due to prsonal health issues we have been rsearching health & fitness for the lst five years. The information we hve obtained has helped us and our fmily members get off pharmaceutical drugs and rgain a level of health we had nver known. Please visit us at: http://www.myrevive.com/darleneanddoug , http://www.truehealthylivingnow.blogspot.com , http://survivingdepression101.blogspot.com

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