Taking back the mental from Nurtition Fundementals

Or making me mental.....



Having several recent talks with folks about basic nutrition, I realized it is far easier than it sounds, yet is daunting for some very compelling reasons...



1. Food is a business.



Everything you know, or think you know about food is delivered to you via channels of information where the main motive is profit. Think about the process from growing (or manufacturing in most cases) through delivery, logistics, and retail. No one in that chain cares one bit about you, only your money.



2. Food is not presented with actual nutritional merit, only marketable nutritional merit.



There are ideas communicated to you about food that contain information about nutrition. However only those bits of information that actually create a marketing opportunity are presented, and they are only presented in forms in which the ancillary information is controlled. "Milk does a body good" is one of the silliest statements ever. It may, or it may not. Prove it. It is a completely unqualified statement. Almost every word in the sentence is suspect. Which Milk? What Body? What do you mean by Good? How "does" it.



Do you seriously think anyone but the Milk Advisory Board has a vested interest in you drinking milk? Do you think they care about your health, or their product?



3. Food is the dominant supply system for control.

You can control the guns, money, etc... but when you control the food, you control everything else. Check this out if you don't think there is a tremendous battle right now for control of the food supply. Monsanto, ADM, Cargill, anyone with a vested interest in keeping Food using their products and services hope that this legislation, under the idea of "food safety" will pass. And it is a great first step to set an even broader net to regulate any aspect of food production, distribution, and sale.

The above being my personal, unqualified opinions.... I will post next about the basics of nutrition.