| Within my lifetime, we ate from the land. Even though | | | | effects that will have on the body. |
| we lived in town, we had a garden, apple trees, hogs | | | | The word organic is the buzzword in the market |
| and milk from goats. We preserved all the food we | | | | signifying that the food is free from man's |
| could for the winter. How different we eat today with | | | | interferences such as pesticides, hormones, special |
| our supermarkets and such. | | | | feeds, etc. This usually indicated a small farmer |
| We are now fast food junkies. We live on what I call | | | | conforming to all the rules. Now big money is coming |
| "belly wash". | | | | into the picture. Watch out. I don't trust the corporate |
| The food we buy must be fast, convenient and easy | | | | world; they are paper tigers without liability. The |
| to prepare. We have slide from the soul food of the | | | | mindset of the people running the show is the bottom |
| past to the fast food of the present. | | | | line. |
| This has led to a diet of processed foods filled with | | | | I have been avoiding grains in my diet. The other night I |
| empty calories. Our foods are full of grains and sugars | | | | was snacking on baked whole grain wheat crackers. |
| that are the causes of the overweight population. | | | | My body rejected them by up-chucking them. I |
| We are now overweight with an excessive amount of | | | | assume that my body is allergic to wheat, if I pay |
| inflammation in our bodies. Our health has gone to hell | | | | attention to what it is telling me. I had experienced the |
| and back. It seems everyone has Type II Diabetes or | | | | same sensation in the past when eating Rudi's whole |
| has a heart condition or cancer. In my own body, I am | | | | grain breads. I love to eat bread as a snack. Now I |
| experiencing the pains of inflammations. As I alter the | | | | can't. |
| foods I eat, the pain is less. I want to share with you | | | | Corn and corn fed animals we use for food are |
| what I am experiencing. | | | | coming under scrutiny by the scientists. The studies |
| I am coming to the conclusions that many of our | | | | are beginning to show a parallel of when we started |
| discomforts can be corrected by altering what we eat. | | | | consuming great amounts of grain products with our |
| It plays an important role in all our known dis-eases. | | | | decline in health. Corn as well as rice, wheat, barley, |
| The diet I am experiencing now limits my intake of | | | | rye and oats are processed to the point that the body |
| grains and no sugars. I am finding it very difficult to find | | | | converts them to instant sugars. In the process of |
| foods that have no grain or grain products in them. | | | | processing, the husk and the germ cell are removed |
| Corn is in everything. | | | | leaving only the endosperm, which is all starch. Starch |
| Corn sweeteners accounts for 55% of the | | | | is a complex carbohydrate. |
| sweeteners on the market. If you read the labels, you | | | | That's bad. |
| will find high fructose corn syrup in everything like | | | | This causes a spike in insulin. This causes an overall |
| breads, cereals, etc. | | | | resistance to insulin and an elevated blood sugar level. |
| Eighty percent of our farmland is used to grow corn. | | | | This leads to the physiology of Type II Diabetes. |
| Other than soy, corn is the most genetically modified | | | | P.S. I lost twenty pounds experimenting with the food I |
| crop on the market. We don't know yet what the | | | | eat. |