A Nutrition Consultant's View

Due to mass marketing efforts by the food conglomerates, compounded by misinformation by conventional healthcare systems and their affiliates whose main interest is profit, it’s difficult to differentiate the fine line between life-giving, nutrient- dense food and understandard, devitalized junk.

It’s becoming more and more difficult to obtain clean, wholesome food any more as the general public has been deceived into believing that we "need" fast, processed junk loaded with preservatives, additives, coloring, flavoring, hormones, and pesticides. It’s been estimated that each and every American consumes approximately 50 lbs. of additives a year. Is it a wonder that degenerative diseases such as cancer, diabetes, arthritis, etc…are escalating proportionately? Is it a surprise that many of our children are diagnosed with ADD/ADHD and other biochemical derangements that are devastating to their families and ultimately, to society? Instead of correcting the core of the problem, mainly nutritional deficiencies, we perpetual and compound the situation by medicating our children and render them doped-up zombies devoid of their sparkle and zest. What have we done to our children? What have we done to ourselves as a species? How can we claim to nurture and protect our young while giving them food and water laced with chemicals, while slowly destroying their delicate immune system with pus and heavy metals from vaccines, while implanting mercury, a known neurotoxin in their teeth in the form of amalgam (silver) fillings. This is not what nature intended. Why do we persist in destroying the very thing that nourishes and sustains us? We’ve already seen the ramifications of our thoughtlessness. How much longer can we claim ignorance? The writing’s already on the wall. We think we are untouched because some of us are fortunate enough to have eluded illness thus far, but with cancer striking 1 in 3, heart disease taking more than 480,000 lives per year, countless people subsisting with crippling pain and deformity, what makes us the exception? Just because we have not yet experienced deep-seated pain with the loss of a spouse, child, parent, or friend, can we claim immunity? The first sign of a heart attack may be death. The first symptom from advanced cancer might be mere fatigue. We can no longer claim ignorance. Regardless of what the disease is called, its root cause is still deficiency and toxicity. The typical conventional methods of cut (surgery), burn (radiation), and poison (medication) has little effect as it does not address these issues. Mortality statistics associated with these barbaric methods confirms this. Some are able to buy a little more time at the expense of quality of life. What’s the point?

Fortunately, nature is forgiving and our bodies are wonderfully and powerfully created. Unless it has reached a point of no return, our bodies are capable of regeneration if given the opportunity. The only sure way of achieving this is by going back to nature, providing it with the proper nutrients while efficiently eliminating built-up toxins and debris. How do we do this?

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Teri N-Gwarek, OHP, has 15 years of experience in the field of holistic health, nutrition and lifestyle, specializing in anti-aging/longevity. She is a proponent of preventative health and offers in-home, email and phone consultation services. Visit Teri's website.

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