Healthy Diets, Not Standard-American Diet Prevent Disease

Dr. Baruch

Many Americans assume that the United States is the world's healthiest nation. Unfortunately, statistics show that we are not as healthy as we may think. We do enjoy one of the highest standards of living in the world, with extraordinary emergency medical technology and trauma care.The average American has first-class access to emergency health care, but this fact doesn't make us healthy. When we evaluate our national lifestyle as one of healthy living we get a different picture.

Poor Health At Best, Disaster At Worst!

The Standard-American diet typically might include a doughnut or muffin with coffee and orange juice for breakfast followed by a mid-morning bagel with cream cheese. Lunch would likely be a turkey sandwich with some chips and a soft drink-or a hefty fast-food burger with extra cheese, a large order of french fries, and a "super-sized" soft drink. The afternoon hours would feature an "energy-boosting" candy bar from a vending machine with another softdrink. Dinner promises a meat-and-potatoes entree with a roll and margarine, some green beans for the health-conscious, and some ice cream for desert. This diet amounts to a prescription for poor health at best and disaster at worst. Virtually any departure from this diet will make you feel better. There is very good reason that the Standard-American-Diet is referred to by its acronym-SAD!

Ancestors Healthy Diet

Just one hundred years ago or less, the Standard-American Diet was dramatically different from what we eat today. Widespread corporate"mono-agriculture" with concentration on single crop specialties and chemical fertilizers and pesticides was unheard of then. The typical Standard-American-Diet consisted mostly of fruits, vegetables, wild grain and seeds, fish, raw unpasteurized dairy products, and meat from wild animals. Our ancestors consumed 30 to 65 percent of their daily calories (and up to 100 grams of fiber a day) from a wide variety of fresh fruits and vegetables. That is why, long before the discovery of vitamins, people who had access to healthy foods lived extremely long lives without vitamin deficiencies or major illnesses. This diet protected our ancestors against diseases such as cancer, diabetes, and heart disease.

Laws of Diet-Nutrition

Many who violate the laws of diet-nutrition are ignorant of the relation of the laws of living (eating, drinking, and working) to their health. If then we would resort to simple means, and follow the simple laws of health that we have been neglecting-proper diet, use of pure water, fresh air, sunshine, rest, and nature's remedies, herbs, etc., nature would restore the body to its original health. The Standard-AmericanDiet would be sad no more.

If we cared about living healthy lives, instead we would choose healthy eating plans, like those espoused by Dr. Baruch.

Check out these videos for more information on the price we payfor not challenging what we are being fed: http://drbaruch.wholefoodfarmacy.com/2005/video_library.asp?mv=getfat.flv