Re: eating natural foods

I wrote a blog post. I just wanted to share it.

Todd, that was a very inciteful blog post, and worth reading for anyone and everyone.
I have been changing me diet rather drastically in an effort to stave off heart disease progression. A big part of that is eating organic whenever possible and practical. It isn't always either in modern life as we know it.
The food manufacturers are literally killing us. That's why many people go plant based, or only consume grass fed beef. In their efforts to make food taste better last longer, and produce better margins for their shareholders, they are literally killing us.

This is only a part of what technological "progress" and "prowess" is doing to our society. We are addicted to our cell phones. We sit on the couch and play video games, and watch Netflix all day and night. We take pills for everything, even when we are not sick. 25 years ago there were no cell phones. Yesrtday the Verizon LTE network was down in my area for a few hours,,and my son was besides him self! I could go on and on. It's hard to notice when we are looking at the trees. But if you step back, and look at the forest, really look at the big picture, take stock of what life was like 50 years ago, vs what it's like today...we're a degenerate mess. A big part of it is the poison we put in our mouths at meal time. But in the big picture it's the tip of the iceberg

Sorry for the rant. I'm in a mood. I'm done.

Another great blog, Todd.

You're absolutely right, eating right certainly can't hurt. In my own case, I totally cleaned up my own diet after Dx, since that time only eating the recommended healthy diet (mostly fruits and vegetables, and stuff generally accepted as healthy, with processed, additive-laden food and such out the door).

And another interesting thing about it worth mentioning is that I actually feel so much better now that I have been eating right! I don't miss the junk food at all! After eating a good, healthy meal these days I actually feel so much better than I ever did after a quickie fast-food meal in earlier times.

And thanks for mentioning the Agent Orange guys. That brings up another point, namely that while it surely (!) wasn't the intention of the chemical companies to poison our guys (not to mention what it has done to the Vietnamese people, who have had to live for decades in an AO-infested land), that is still the result, intended or not.

But there may be hope for ways to clean up this kind of mess. For example, the other night webwandering brought me to a most interesting article about breeding microbes for specific clean-up purposes, such as being developed to eat and thus eliminate from the environment certain toxins. They'll drop the little guys into where the poisons are, and they'll go to lunch gobbling them up and processing them inside their little bodies into something harmless like oxygen, which they then release. And the toxins are now gone. According to the article this kind of thing needs more work to become practical, but it has definite possibilities. But I digress.

Back to the subject, your blog makes some great points and was well worth the read, as it always is.

Well, yes, GMOs some of them, do make it possible to use pesticide more effectively..some , however, are drought resistent for example, so no danger there. However, even with the pesticide resistent varieties, most of the beans and corn grown here, GM enables the grower to use less of the pesticide than would normally be necessary. As far as the toxicity of the pesticides used..there has been no real science showing problems related to the amount of residual in a crop..which is zero for corn and beans, in fact the residual is tiny even in the soil since it is a systemic pesticide.
The good news is that more and more growers are concentrating on soil health, moisture control, etc. as a means of growing crops better to establish dominance over even weeds by establishing , for example , a canopy to shade out the weeds. To think that we will be able to maintain our level of food production organically is, at this time, pie in the sky,

Well, as I alluded to, your thoughts are not lost on the growers. They realize that if the public doesn't want something, they don't want it, period. You can throw science at them all day, the do not care.