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underlying causes
of ill-health
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Underlying causes of ill-health
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
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
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
and 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.
“Don’t
bother with asthma
- no one ever died of it”
(William Osler, physician, early 1900s)
Current asthma deaths:
1,500 in UK annually
5,000 in US annually
18,000 new episodes
of asthma each week in UK.
17 million people in the US
diagnosed with asthma.