Monday, January 12, 2009

Bloating Causes - Part III

Last time, I talked about toxicity being a major cause of malnutrition in our country. Like the people starving from famine in underdeveloped countries, malnutrition leads to a bloating stomach.

A second reason why we are overfeed and undernourished is the poor quality of our food supply. It is vital for us to cleanse our cells from all the poisonous toxins I mentioned last time, so they can absorb nutrients properly. However, if there isn't an adequate supply of vitamins and minerals, there is nothing for the cells to absorb. Without the nutrients needed to repair and replenish our cells they begin to degenerate. Over time this leads to chronic degenerative diseases like, heart disease, cancer, and diabetes. Ultimately, it leads to death.

Over the last 100 years our food supply has been severely compromised. That is just a blink of an eye when compared to the length of time humans have roamed this earth. Here are some of the massive changes that have led to these results:
  • Commercial farming techniques have left the soil depleted of many minerals and micro-nutrients
  • Premature harvesting for market transport prevents foods from developing all the nutrients available when fully ripened
  • Cooking and heating destroys vital enzymes
  • Additives, preservatives & artificial ingredients reduce the nutritional value of foods
  • Chemical herbicides & pesticides introduce toxins that compete with nutrients for space in our cells
  • Modern food processing removes portions of foods that contain the highest concentrations of nutrients leaving only the less nutritious residues
  • Microwaving & irradiation break down nutrients and introduce toxic substances
  • Genetic engineering and genetically modified organisms are introducing unknown and untested cell structures to our foods
  • Fast foods stress convenience over nutrition content
All these factors reduce the nutritional content of our food. Without the high levels of vitamins and minerals that once were present in our diet, we are slowly being starved. So when we are looking for bloating causes we don't need to look much farther than malnutrition because of our food supply's deterioration.

Doug B.

Monday, January 5, 2009

Bloating Causes - Part II

In my last post, I stated that even though we live in a land of plenty, a major segment of our population is malnourished. Many people are actually overfeed, but undernourished. As a result, these people have the same bloating stomach as the people commonly pictured starving in underdeveloped third world countries. So why is that?

There are two reasons I would like to cover here. Today, I will discuss the first reason. This reason is toxicity. It's a physical law that two or more objects can't occupy the same space at the same time. This principle applies even at the cellular level.

Our bodies tend to collect and store too many waste products. These include poisonous toxins like diacetic, lactic, pyruvic, uric, carbonic, acetic, butyric and heptic acids. When our cells are filled with these compounds there is no room left for the nutrients required to repair and nourish them. Over time our cells begin to degenerate and die just like someone who is suffering from famine. There really isn't any difference whether a person doesn't have enough to eat, or what they do eat doesn't reach their cells. Both situations result in malnutrition.

These toxins come from both our external physical environment, as well as our internal emotional state. You may not realize it, but your emotions can have a very toxic effect on your body. And when these toxins build up in our system, they are one of the bloating causes.

In my next post I will talk about a second reason many people are malnourished.

Doug B.