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Bringing Up Healthy Children in Today’s Flawed Food World

November 22nd, 2009

This will shake some of you to your toes, and I hope it does! Just read this excerpt from an article in the Back to the Garden newsletter published by Hallelujah Acres in North Carolina:

“If diet makes a difference in our health, why is it that my grandfather, who ate everything wrong, lives to be 90 years of age and his great grandson, age 2, has cancer?”

If it’s diet that makes a difference, it would seem like grandpa would be the one with the trouble. Back in the 40’s there was a dentist by the name of Francis Pottenger who had that same question. His real question was, “What does processed food do to our bodies?” Now he was not a nutrition nut, and he financed his own research. So no one told him what results to come up with.

He used cats. He divided these cats into five groups. The first two groups he fed unprocessed food. Those cats remained healthy throughout the experiment, so let’s put them aside.

It’s the other three groups we’re interested in. He fed them processed foods, junk foods in other words, and here’s what he found.

The first generation junk-food cats developed diseases much like we humans acquire—arthritis, cancers, diabetes, allergies, and so forth. They got these diseases toward the end of their lifespans.

The second generation junk-food cats developed those same diseases in the middle of their lifespans. The third generation cats developed those diseases at the beginning of their lives.

There was no fourth generation. Either the third generation parents could not conceive, or if they did, they aborted.

Right now in America, 25% of young adults cannot conceive. It’s the worst we’ve ever seen. The incidence of spontaneous abortion or miscarriage is on the rise. It’s the worst this country has ever seen.

The rest of the article is much too long to include here, as it was taken from a tape of a speech given by Dr. Joel Robbins that received a standing ovation back in April of 1998. You can get the entire tape online at http://hacres.com, or by sending $9.95 and specifying #232, “Children and the Hallelujah Diet,” to Hallelujah Acres, P.O. Box 2388, Shelby, North Carolina 28151

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Hazards of junk foods

November 19th, 2009

Junk foods are very much popular among the people now days. Because of its accessibility, cost and taste, it makes themselves popular. But the hazards of junk food are also very high. Cholesterol, Obesity, Diabetics, High B.P are some of the results caused by the junk foods. Though people do not recognize the cause, they just get addicted to these foods.

One of the reasons for the addiction of junk foods is the busy schedules of parents. When parents find no time to cook food in their house, due to their jobs, naturally children as well as the adults get attracted to these junk foods.

Junk really means “RUBBISH”. And so, are we eating “Rubbish Foods”? Considering the ingredients, mostly every doctor suggests his patients not to eat them, but to have fresh fruits and vegetables.

Now-days many companies produce packed foods which are really harmful to a body, if the body doesn’t do much exercise. Mostly in every packed food, there are high fat, sugar etc… , which affects the body badly. There will be no nutritional values for many of them and only benefit an in-taker feel in those foods is its taste. Skin problems like pimples occur because of excess in take of oil. The junk foods are mostly prepared by oils which may not be suitable for one’s body type.

There are many cases which reports obesity found in small age groups. it causes severe effects in one’s life. Eating while watching TV can increase the intake of foods and it can surely damage the body. There is no problem in eating foods, which guarantee you about its nutritional values.

One can have those snacks but one must not get addicted to it, as it cause many troubles, which are mentioned above.

“Prevention is better than cure”

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Junk Foods

November 18th, 2009

Junk food–every one knowingly or unknowingly consuming junk food as diet often. By the way, what is Junk food ?Junk food is an informal term applied to some foods with little or no nutritional value, or to products with nutritional value but which also have ingredients considered unhealthy when regularly eaten, or to those considered unhealthy to consume at all.Factors contributing to labeling as junk food are high levels of refined sugar, white flour, trans fat and saturated fat, salt, and additives such as preservatives and coloring agents. Others include lack of proteins, vitamins, fiber and other nutrients for a healthy diet.From the above it is clear that junk food has no health value in whatsoever manner and it is a waste of money only. A healthy diet should always include protein, vitamin, fiber and other nutrients which are not at all available in any junk food.A large number of leading organizations are engaged in the manufacture of junk foods and many have a passion to eat these types of junk foods. The list of junk foods is very exhaustive and the list   would include foods that are high in salt, sugar, fat or calories and low nutrient content.Salted snack foods, candy, gum, most sweet desserts, fried fast food and carbonated beverages are some of the major junk foods. Generally, they offer little in terms of protein, vitamins or minerals and lots of calories from sugar or fat. The term “empty calories” reflects the lack of nutrients. Some of the important junk foods are Beef Burgers, Potato Chips, Coco Cola, fried fingers. By spending lot of money we are  purchasing lot of diseases.  The life is to live happily and not to eat in a ridiculous way to have a unhealthy life style.  Having a good health is worth of thousand million dollars and if you lose wealth you can regain but health is not like that.  Parents should be more conscious in selecting the diets for their children and should avoid completely the junk foods, which may not have any health value to their children.  Children should be discouraged by explaining the ill health value of junk foods. Obesity and gaining weight are the major causes of eating junk foods.  By allowing our children to eat junk foods, we are allowing a society to grow with obesity only. The children will feel bad about their health once they grow and will surely blame their parent for not having properly fed them.Everyone tries to lose weight after gaining so much of weight by eating junk foods and fatty foods.  Teachers should also play a role in explaining the bad effects of eating junk foods so that the student community will have more awareness about the junk foods. Most of us are much attracted towards the junk foods of various varieties for its tastiness and unaware of their values we are eating and should set our mind to avoid junk foods by not purchasing from the stores and storing in our houses.Economy also plays a role in curbing us from purchasing nutrient-rich vegetable filled salad with meat and we are forced to purchase a fatty meal from the Mc Donald. Price war should be kept apart and making good food with calorific value should be prepared at home instead going to KFC or McDonald. Eating junk foods once in a while will not have any adverse effects in your body or health. But regular consumption of junk foods will surely put you and your family in trouble.Those who are interested in losing weight and maintain a good  weight should not touch the junk foods in any form and should eat good diets having calorific value. Eating lot of fresh vegetables and fruits is very healthy when compared   to these type of junk foods.I have collected lot of good articles written by great authors and published in my blog http://howtoloseweightbyme.blogspot.com/ which will definitely help you to lose weight.  Many other topics such as six pack and gaining weight are also included in that blog.

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