Healthy Living
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Health and Self-Reliance
by Elizabeth Renter
"Today, more than 95% of all chronic disease is caused by food choice, toxic food ingredients, nutritional deficiencies and lack of physical exercise."
Mike Adams, editor NaturalNews.com
"If the Negro is not careful he will drink in all the poison of modern civilization and die from the effects of it."
Hon. Marcus Mosiah Garvey, prophet, founder U.N.I.A.
We live in a world where people die every day because of the food they willingly eat. Modern man is allowing themselves to be poisoned, for the sake of gluttony or the fleeting rush of false-satisfaction that modern food-chemicals create in the brain. We are killing ourselves for a Big Mac, Diet soda, and bag of chips, and it’s long past time that we ask ourselves if it’s really worth it.
When you think back to our ancestors who came before us, or even just a few generations ago, when someone was hungry, they didn’t rush out to get a greasy bag, or look in the cupboard for a processed food product. If they wanted something fast, they ate fruit. If they were willing to wait, they cooked. And they were much healthier. At the root of this simple choice—between processed food products and natural foods—is self-reliance.
We have come to depend on a system for our sustenance.
At some point in the last fifty years or so, people stopped relying on their own efforts; they stopped growing, preserving, and even cooking foods, and started embracing products that sometimes looked and smelled like foods, but were nothing more than factory made imposters. What seemed like an amazing solution at the time (convenient and fast) would ultimately lead millions to die of preventable causes. And those who didn’t die would often turn to the medical establishment to “fix” these diseases they brought upon themselves—using drugs to further alter the amazing, self-healing creation that is the human body.
Remove the systems from the modern diet—the restaurants, grocery stores, medical establishment, government guidelines and suggestions—and you’re left with what may look like slim-pickings to the obese modern man, but what is truly nutrition as it was intended. You are left with self-reliance.
Global healing begins with self-reliance
Modern society has made it easy to dine on the food-like matter of the modern age, and difficult to become self-reliant again. But, a movement of the truly conscious has led many people back to their roots—starting backyard farms and apartment-balcony gardens.
When we grow our own food, we connect with nature—that spirit with which we can never be fully removed—because we are all a part of it. As you become in tune with the dirt, the weather, and where your food comes from, it heals you spiritually. The products of this healing, the food, heals you physically, and the results are tangible.
When we begin to do for self, and each other, eliminating the systems that have been placed here for our “convenience” and ultimate destruction, we create a community rather than a society. Growing, preserving, and cooking foods increases the health of the mind, body, and soul. When we trade the fruits of our labors with others doing the same, we nurture the bonds that exist between us all—the bonds that can eventually break the systems designed to keep us dependent and downtrodden.
When you think back to our ancestors who came before us, or even just a few generations ago, when someone was hungry, they didn’t rush out to get a greasy bag, or look in the cupboard for a processed food product. If they wanted something fast, they ate fruit. If they were willing to wait, they cooked. And they were much healthier. At the root of this simple choice—between processed food products and natural foods—is self-reliance.
We have come to depend on a system for our sustenance.
At some point in the last fifty years or so, people stopped relying on their own efforts; they stopped growing, preserving, and even cooking foods, and started embracing products that sometimes looked and smelled like foods, but were nothing more than factory made imposters. What seemed like an amazing solution at the time (convenient and fast) would ultimately lead millions to die of preventable causes. And those who didn’t die would often turn to the medical establishment to “fix” these diseases they brought upon themselves—using drugs to further alter the amazing, self-healing creation that is the human body.
Remove the systems from the modern diet—the restaurants, grocery stores, medical establishment, government guidelines and suggestions—and you’re left with what may look like slim-pickings to the obese modern man, but what is truly nutrition as it was intended. You are left with self-reliance.
Global healing begins with self-reliance
Modern society has made it easy to dine on the food-like matter of the modern age, and difficult to become self-reliant again. But, a movement of the truly
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