Nature’s Farmacy
Years ago there was an extensive European study covered 65,226 participants ages 35+ for over 7 years and found a 42% reduction in risk of dying from common diseases in ones that ate at least 7 servings of fruits and vegetables a day. Additionally they reduced their risk for heart disease and cardiovascular complications by 31% and cancer risk by 25%.
It’s simple, your choice of foods can lower or increase your risk of death by chronic disease! The Centers for Disease Control has for years been putting a push behind fruit and vegetable consumption for prevention of chronic disease, as well as it being important for optimal child growth and for weight management.
These statistics should be even more meaningful when we know that the largest killer of Americans is heart disease, 2nd is cancer, and the 3rd leading cause of death is medical misdiagnosis, hospital infections and pharmaceutical drug complications.
When we can lower our risk to the above by changing our food choices and adding in a few other healthy lifestyle habits, it simply increases our body’s ability to prevent disease on its own and decreases its reliance on intervention by medicine and medical facility. There are billions $$$ made by the fear mongering of the masses to use invasive machines for early detection, when they’re perfectly healthy. We should pay much more attention to what’s causing the disease, (and how we can increase our body’s defenses) instead of early detection of it.
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Spring is an exciting time of the year where seeds are sprouting, plants and trees are blooming with the beginnings of the loaded nutritional packets they will be working on over the next few months and bringing to us in the form of fruits, vegetables, nuts, beans and other whole foods. We should all try to grow something ourselves, whether it’s planting a tomato plant in a big flowerpot, a few blueberry plants in a corner of the yard or whatever other fruit or vegetable we like. If it’s something we like, we’ll probably enjoy watching it develop the food more.
Many of us either do not have the space or time to grow a large garden, but if we can increase the value of local grown fruits and vegetables by purchasing them, we will increase the demand and reward for the growers around us.
When we consume fruits and vegetables grown in our region, we increase the chances of them getting picked at the ripened stage when nature intended for it to be harvested. We don’t like to work on a project for a long time only to have it taken from us before we’re finished with it and neither does a plant, ever notice how hard it is to pull an un-ripened fruit or vegetable from its plant, but how easy it is when the plant is finished with it?
There are loads of antioxidants and fibers in fruits and vegetables that help detoxify our bodies. The antioxidants from fresh fruits and vegetables help get rid of toxic debris throughout our organs, skeletal structure as well as the fibers and plant enzymes that help us maintain a healthy digestive tract.
Energy and defense nutrients are in the foods that nature develops, and our body can feel the difference whether in energizing us or in helping us fight illnesses as well as chronic and infectious diseases!
There is no one that can develop food better than nature itself!
