Post by Mech on Nov 9, 2004 17:09:52 GMT -5
The Starburst of Life: Biogenic Foods
Growing Sprouts and Indoor Gardening
(The following information is adapted from “The Chemistry of Youth”, by E.B. Szekely)
The Biocidic World – Can we Survive It?
Man is a masterpiece of nature, created and perfected in nature’s laboratory through millions of years. Man’s whole being is conditioned to absorb pure, natural substances: air, water, foods, etc., and to be surrounded by a natural, unpolluted environment.
After the second world war, an accelerated flood of synthetic and toxic additives inundated our markets and supermarket chains, which soon became all-sidedly omnipresent in all products which the innocent and ignorant housewives carried home to deteriorate the health of their families. Instead of purity, freshness, and wholesomeness, the new post-war criteria for desirable food became taste, texture, and shelf-life. In geometrical progression ever since, the greediness of the lethal food industry and the all-pervading sophisticated and deceiving promotion of television and radio have become an omnipresent menace of corruption to the public mind and body.
It is mind-staggering to try to conceive that, according to the statistics of our bicentennial year (and it’s much worse now in the 21st century), 5550 different synthetic chemicals, a total of a billion pounds a year in over 32,000 products, are conspiring against the innocent, uninformed, and misinformed consumer, making it very improbable that our nation will ever survive to celebrate a tricentennial anniversary.
Whenever food manufacturers remove a natural substance from a food, they always replace it with a synthetic adulterant. Of course, this manipulation disturbs the whole natural biochemical balance in the food. Each time a synthetic is consumed, the biogenic and biological processes of the organism receive a shock to which they are desperately trying to adjust themselves, very often with little success. Each time, a precondition of disease is added to the already disturbed living processes, developed and perpetuated over millions of years. Their continuous, more and more aggressive disturbance proliferates a long line of chronic and degenerative ailments. Even in ordinary simple foods, a great number of synthetic, and often toxic additives are ingested. Just for an example:
· Ice cream contains coal tar dye, diglycerides, monoglycerides, antibiotics, artificial flavors, carboxymethyl cellulose, artificial colors, etc.
· Frozen apple pies contain nicotine, lindane, chlordane, lead arsenate, methoxybenzene, sodium-phenylphenate, malathion, etc.
· Margarine has traces of monoisopropyl citrate, diglycerides, isopropyl citrate, monoglycerides, etc.
· Breads contain coal tar dye, diglycerides, ditertiary buthyl paracresol, ammonium chloride, polyoxyethylene, and monoglycerides.
· Pickled vegetables: sodium nitrate, aluminum sulphate.
· Bottled fruit juices: saccharine, parathion, dimethyl polysiloxane, benzoic acid, etc.
· In meats: stilbestol, dieldrin, aureomycin, methoxyclor, toxaphene, chlordane, heptachlor, benzene hexachloride, etc., etc.
· Potatoes: all kinds of pesticides: ethylene dibromide, heptachlor, dieldrin, chlordane, etc.
We could go on and on the endless thousands of synthetic and toxic additives, but I think these few samples are enough. But the bottom line is simple: If we are to survive our toxic environment we have to stop now. We must go back to living foods from the Earthly Mother. My best advice is this, strive for simplicity once again. Go back to simple, slow foods, home-cooked meals made from fresh, organic, homegrown ingredients wherever possible. Go back to living foods and most of all, supplement the poor quality of foods available today with fresh sprouts, and learn to grow tender, fresh baby greens in shallow buckets and small containers. Learn how to make homemade sauerkraut or other fermented vegetables, and concentrate on unshelled nuts, seeds, whole grains and legumes. Biogenic, living foods are the logical answer to restoring healthy foods for the planet and the human organism.
Growing Sprouts and Indoor Gardening
(The following information is adapted from “The Chemistry of Youth”, by E.B. Szekely)
The Biocidic World – Can we Survive It?
Man is a masterpiece of nature, created and perfected in nature’s laboratory through millions of years. Man’s whole being is conditioned to absorb pure, natural substances: air, water, foods, etc., and to be surrounded by a natural, unpolluted environment.
After the second world war, an accelerated flood of synthetic and toxic additives inundated our markets and supermarket chains, which soon became all-sidedly omnipresent in all products which the innocent and ignorant housewives carried home to deteriorate the health of their families. Instead of purity, freshness, and wholesomeness, the new post-war criteria for desirable food became taste, texture, and shelf-life. In geometrical progression ever since, the greediness of the lethal food industry and the all-pervading sophisticated and deceiving promotion of television and radio have become an omnipresent menace of corruption to the public mind and body.
It is mind-staggering to try to conceive that, according to the statistics of our bicentennial year (and it’s much worse now in the 21st century), 5550 different synthetic chemicals, a total of a billion pounds a year in over 32,000 products, are conspiring against the innocent, uninformed, and misinformed consumer, making it very improbable that our nation will ever survive to celebrate a tricentennial anniversary.
Whenever food manufacturers remove a natural substance from a food, they always replace it with a synthetic adulterant. Of course, this manipulation disturbs the whole natural biochemical balance in the food. Each time a synthetic is consumed, the biogenic and biological processes of the organism receive a shock to which they are desperately trying to adjust themselves, very often with little success. Each time, a precondition of disease is added to the already disturbed living processes, developed and perpetuated over millions of years. Their continuous, more and more aggressive disturbance proliferates a long line of chronic and degenerative ailments. Even in ordinary simple foods, a great number of synthetic, and often toxic additives are ingested. Just for an example:
· Ice cream contains coal tar dye, diglycerides, monoglycerides, antibiotics, artificial flavors, carboxymethyl cellulose, artificial colors, etc.
· Frozen apple pies contain nicotine, lindane, chlordane, lead arsenate, methoxybenzene, sodium-phenylphenate, malathion, etc.
· Margarine has traces of monoisopropyl citrate, diglycerides, isopropyl citrate, monoglycerides, etc.
· Breads contain coal tar dye, diglycerides, ditertiary buthyl paracresol, ammonium chloride, polyoxyethylene, and monoglycerides.
· Pickled vegetables: sodium nitrate, aluminum sulphate.
· Bottled fruit juices: saccharine, parathion, dimethyl polysiloxane, benzoic acid, etc.
· In meats: stilbestol, dieldrin, aureomycin, methoxyclor, toxaphene, chlordane, heptachlor, benzene hexachloride, etc., etc.
· Potatoes: all kinds of pesticides: ethylene dibromide, heptachlor, dieldrin, chlordane, etc.
We could go on and on the endless thousands of synthetic and toxic additives, but I think these few samples are enough. But the bottom line is simple: If we are to survive our toxic environment we have to stop now. We must go back to living foods from the Earthly Mother. My best advice is this, strive for simplicity once again. Go back to simple, slow foods, home-cooked meals made from fresh, organic, homegrown ingredients wherever possible. Go back to living foods and most of all, supplement the poor quality of foods available today with fresh sprouts, and learn to grow tender, fresh baby greens in shallow buckets and small containers. Learn how to make homemade sauerkraut or other fermented vegetables, and concentrate on unshelled nuts, seeds, whole grains and legumes. Biogenic, living foods are the logical answer to restoring healthy foods for the planet and the human organism.