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.

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