What
happened to
our Health?
These
articles follow on logically to build a picture of the underlying health problems that
are widespread in our culture today.
Virtually everyone needs to understand and deal with these problems in
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Introduction
This page contains
links to the following series of short articles.
1. Health in isolation
Isolated people, cut off from modern foods, enjoyed remarkable health,
together with surprising resistance to infection and degenerative disease.
2. Emotional as well as physical
Happiness as well as health shone out of a primitive
community. A scientist's quest to demonstrate the effect of their diet
upon their emotional health.
3. Health before birth
Old hospital birth records
convinced the Medical Research Council that what a woman eats when she’s
pregnant can affect the health, not only of her children, but of her children’s
children.
4. The Saccharine Disease
One of the most original thinkers of the twentieth
century brought about a major revolution in scientific thought. He insisted
that a condition common to many health problems is the most dangerous
cause of disease in westernised countries.
5. Disease begins in the gut
A Russian scientist was
awarded the Nobel Prize for his research on the internal
eco-system of the body. Current research is confirming this as
an important factor in inflammatory disease, autoimmune disorders, chronic
fatigue and certain cancers.
6. Leaky Gut Syndrome
One of the repercussions of our modern diet is its
effect on the intestinal wall. This has consequences that can undermine
health and promote disease.
7. Essential Fatty Acids (EFAs)
The disruption of these vital fats is just one of
many interrelated imbalances within the human body that are being exacerbated
by an increasing number of nutritional and environmental factors.
8. Deficiencies & anti-nutrients
The idea that anyone who eats a reasonably well-balanced
diet can't be deficient is a dangerous fallacy. Modern agriculture, food
processing, dietary choices and environmental factors have created widespread
shortages of nutrients vital to the health of the body and the brain.
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