Have you ever considered just how much our diets have changes over the last 50 to 100 years, or how much our health is connected to the types of food we consume. With the majority of us eating on the run and looking for a quick way to produce a meal for our families, we thought it would be interesting to take a look at the modern diet. Without doing a lot of research to substantiate the exact date of introduction into the food supply, lets take a look at the approximate time frame of some of our most common food items.
If my memory serves me right, most neighborhoods started seeing an influx of McDonalds and other fast food restaurants somewhere around the mid nineteen seventies. Sure there were some McDonalds and other fast food joints before this time, but we’re talking about when this industry started to become mainstream. Early to mid seventies just about hits it right!
Soda drinking falls along the same lines as the fast food industry. There is no doubt that sodas were created much earlier, but when did it become commonplace to consume this sugary beverage on a daily basis? It was around 1965 that soda’s “previously thought of as occasional treats” were dispensed in cans from vending machines. Today, sodas account for at least a third of the liquid consumed in the US. On average a 12 oz can of soda, is equivalent to 10 teaspoons of sugar. When you consider that many people drink them non-stop throughout the day, that’s a lot of sugar.
Sugar consumption in the early 20 th century average of about five pounds. Today, according to the USDA, the number is estimated that 140-170 pounds per year somewhere. Of a concern! Refined sugar, contains vitamins and minerals. Have zero nutritional value. Since then, due to the self-regulatory body, the body's metabolism of sugar to help the system will be called at the store's unique micronutrients. Some sugar, inhibiting the immune system, which contributes to almost every disease known to the people.
Since its introduction into the food supply, about 50 rules are used in monosodium glutamate increases a year ago. Hard this most processing additives / or boxed foods, I would be pressed to find as many canned. Notorious for fast food restaurants, are added to the source of this chemical. MSG in the food industry is only worth, folks, is attractive because the taste of foods and to eat more. Evidence is easy to MSG animals become obese and type 2 diabetes indicate feedback.
Artificial sweetener aspartame in 1980 entered the food supply early. Adverse reactions to food additives and their use in diet carbonated beverages account for 75 percent of the other diet products, FDA has reported. Products, Insutantoburekkufasuto drinks and other beverages, cereals, desserts, candy, food, pharmaceutical, sugar, aspartame can include anything from a much more include free product.
Both MSG and sweet excitotoxins. They stimulate the nerve receptors in the brain, so that brain cells communicate with each other. This stimulation led to their deaths, and may cause brain damage. Science has shown that exposure to these substances in the brain can produce symptoms of Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. The use of these products is also linked to cancer.
Antibiotics came into wide spread use in the 1950′s. In the 1960′s they were introduced in livestock production. Today 3 million lbs of antibiotics are utilized for humans per year, while approximately 25 million lbs are used on livestock There is evidence that this over consumption of antibiotics in animals (as well as humans) is contributing to bacterial resistance. Taking antibiotics also decreases your “good bacterial army” which accounts for 75% of your immune system. This assault can leave you open to additional infections and yeast overgrowth which can result in ever declining health. Yeast overgrowth is often called the great mimicker because it can imitate many diseases.
But lets say you eat a healthy diet with lots of fruits and vegetables and only the best of meat, poultry and fish. Evidence has shown the our soils are depleted in trace minerals. This mineral depletion existed in the early part of the last century, as evidenced by the US Senate Document 264, 74th Congress in 1936 Second Session.
Here is a partial quote from that document:
"This is bad news, from the leading authorities learned in the United States 99% of people lack access to these minerals, and minerals in any of the more important practical outcome of the disease, is clearly insufficient. Any balance, resulting in greater damage to the lack of a or another element, however microscopic the body requirement may be, we are sick, suffering, shorten our lives. "
A recent article on ABC News by Megan Carpenter validated this continuing trend when the article revealed that “recently grown crops have shown decreases of up to 38 percent in protein, calcium, vitamin C, phosphorus, iron and riboflavin when compared with produce from past decades.”
When you consider other food additives, radiation, pesticides, nitrates, trans fat and hydrogenated fats along with the changes in agriculture, food processing and lifestyle there is no wonder why people are dealing with the explosion of health conditions that we are today. Are we manufacturing sickness! You bet we are!