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Diet has two main different meanings which depend on the context in which they are used. First is what you eat on a regular basis. The other definition is what you don’t eat or do eat just to lose weight. I’m going to be writing about the first definition and how it impacts our health.
In the Philippines, …. Nah, I need to change up the format on my Life Here & There articles so you’ll get the comparison at the end. Trust me. It is a positive one for the Philippines.
In the USA, there are a few major leading causes of death with some of the top ones being heart attack, cancer and the medical industry. The average lifespan is decreasing in the USA as well. This is due to overmedication, lack of proper exercise, lack of balance of exposure to the sun and poor diets. Diabetes Type 2 is on the rise courtesy of so many being overweight and excessive consumption of large amounts of sugar – usually in sodas such as Coke or Pepsi. If you think drinking diet sodas will get around that, the sweeteners in those are also bad so look out for anything with aspartame in it and avoid it.
The junk food or chips, candy, microwave meals and more bring with it extensive amounts of chemicals that accumulate in the body and cause all sorts of diseases and ailments including cancer. From this article, we can find even more problems with common foods eaten in the USA.
“The USDA reports that the top nine foods eaten by Americans are:
* Whole cow’s milk
* 2 percent milk
* Processed American cheese
* White bread
* White flour
* White rolls
* Refined sugar
* Colas
* Ground beef
All of these foods are foreign to our genome that evolved on a Paleolithic diet. This mono diet creates altered patterns of gene expression that lead to disease, including food allergy or sensitivity.”
Translation is the standard diet of Americans is not healthy at all.
What is called for is drinking pure or distilled water (of course it tastes better cold), skim milk or 1% milk at the most, avoid the soy, and eat lots of raw vegetables, raw fruits, and proteins raised in on organic or natural grass. That last part means the chicken, pork or fish should be caught in the wild or fed foods that were not processed or treated with chemicals as those chemicals collect in the body of the animal and transfer the poison and toxins into your body.
Unfortunately, you can’t trust much of the food in the grocery store as even the fruit and raw vegetables are sprayed with chemicals to help them last longer and look more appealing to shoppers.
How does the Philippines compare on this? Do we grow our fruit and eat it raw? Check. (Deep fried bananas may taste good but may not be good for you.) Do we grow and eat our veggies raw? Oftentimes, yes we do. Do we avoid white flour? Hey, we’ve got rice. Are the proteins raised on organic foods? Most of the time, they are.
So diet wise, I think Pinas has the advantage. As for the other definition of diet, many Filipinas have no problem with this. With a few alterations of getting the junk food out of our system, all of us can live healthier lives.
Thank you,
Anah
I agree with most of what you say, but I would have to disagree with your point on the Soy. The Okinawan’s of Japan boast the largest number of Centurions in the world and while they claim that it’s due to their high fish and soy diet, science there to back them on it.
Milk itself is blamed for many allergies, but you won’t hear that thanks to the dairy lobbyists. There are other ways to obtain Vitamin’s A and D besides milk consumption.