Back to
the Basics
Modern
Health Concerns
It is important to understand what
disease really is and what is at the root of it. Once that is
realized, we can turn our attention to the appropriate natural,
Grassroots Solutions to put us back on the path to better health.
There are three basic causes of degenerative disease:
Malnutrition: eating foods that
contain too little of the nutrients required to support our bodies'
thousands of normal functions.
Toxicity: exposure to toxins that
interfere with our bodies' built-in program for health.
Poor digestion: incomplete breakdown of foods leading to
poor absorption of nutrients and putrefaction resulting in internally
generated malnutrition and toxicity.
Malnutrition in our 21st century, western
world of excess may be a hard concept to grasp but the truth is that
today's modern farming practices do not concentrate on growing
nutrient-rich foods. They use cheap, three-mineral fertilizers,
toxic chemicals and pesticides and genetically modified seeds to decrease
workload and costs while increasing yield and profit. The end result
is empty food, virtually void of nutrients. In addition, today's
modern processing techniques remove nutrients form food such as minerals,
vitamins, essential fats, fibre, protein, antioxidants and many other
nutrients that we cannot live without. That is why, even in this age
of abundance, malnutrition is at the root of modern disease.
Toxicity is an easier issue to understand.
We are all aware of the many pollutants in our environment that cause
degenerative disease, ill health and low energy such as pesticides,
herbicides and fungicides, waste and residue from industry and fumes and
toxins from gas and diesel vehicles just to name a few. We should
also be aware of genetically modified foods, whose possible damage to our
health is as yet unknown and modern processing practices that can add
harmful molecules to our food and change natural molecules to toxic ones.
Poor digestion is a very common and serious
problem caused by several factors including a lack of enzyme-containing
foods in our diets, the cooking of foods, which destroys the naturally
occurring enzymes and/or a lack of internally produced digestive enzymes
due to over-acidity, age, disease or stress. Without proper
digestion, foods cannot be broken down into nutritional building blocks
and malnutrition is the result.
Grassroots Solutions
Udo Erasmus has spent a lifetime researching
grassroots solutions to these modern health concerns. He has found
that nature always provides us with the tools we need to heal and thrive:
pure water, clean air, sunlight and wholesome nutritious foods.
These basic elements of nature, when used as primary health care, will
build strong and healthy bodies.
Grassroots solutions to modern health
concerns lie within our diet. Essential fats, enzymes, greens,
probiotics and fibre are healthy foods provided by nature that can create
better health and longevity by providing:
Nutrition: foods that contain the
nutrients required to support our bodies thousands of normal functions.
Detoxification: the removal of toxins
from our bodies that interfere with our built-in program for health.
Proper digestion: the correct
breakdown of foods to facilitate the absorption of nutrients.
When these foods are made and processed with
nature in mind, they act as natural, healthy supplements with the ability
to nourish and cleanse and so are powerful tools for health.
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