Can you still believe the expert in food safety?

This quotation by a great teacher born in 623 BC is very enlightening and provocative at the same time.

“Do not believe anything because it is said by an authority, or if it is said to come from angels, or from Gods, or from an inspired source. Believe it only if you have explored it in your own heart and mind and body and found it to be true.”

   It is said that scientific truth takes about 20 years before it is taken to be obvious common knowledge by the masses. The power that be, which controls the mass media in their contents released to the public often mixed half-truth and propaganda  together in what is read and heard by the masses.

For example, how many years we have heard that cholesterol is what leads to a heart attack? Polyunsaturated fats such as corn oil, sunflower oil, soya bean oil are good for your health?

Vaccination is good for children?

  If the above generally accepted facts were the truth, how is it that there are still so many people out there who die of heart diseases, when they avoid cholesterol and are still suffered by a heart attack? Children who are vaccinated are diagnosed to have autism?

So what is the truth about what are the factors that cause a particular disease?  If you can’t believe the health experts, doctors who can you trust in the sea of opinion dish out daily?

Our own experience on the issues involved?  Someone rightly says that we cannot live long enough on this earth, to make all the mistakes and learn from our own mistakes. So the dilemma faced by us is, what can we believe and what we need to reject?

For the purpose of this discussion, let us ask this simple question about the food we eat every day.

 Our source of food is the key to our health. Natural source of food such as fruits, vegetables, and  grains if they are free from herbicides or pesticides and are fresh, we are going to be healthy consuming them. If however, if the food has been processed the likelihood of having chemical additives, coloring agents, preservatives are high and a risk to our health. Some common dangerous food additives.

·         Sodium nitrate. Added to processed meat to stop bacterial growth linked to human cancer.

·         Sulfites: Used to keep prepared food fresh, may cause breathing difficulties for those who are allergic to it.

·         Potassium bromate :Added to bread to increase its volume, linked to human cancer.

·         Propyl gallate: Added to fat-containing products, linked to human cancer.

·         BHA/BHT: A fat preservative used to extend shelf life, linked to cancerous tumor growth.

·         Propylene glycol: Better known as antifreeze. Thicken dairy product and salad dressing. Deemed generally safe by FDA 

·         Monosodium glutamate (MSG) Flavor enhancer known to cause headaches.Linked in animals studies to nerve damage, heart problems, and seizures.

·         Butane. Added to chicken nuggets to keep them tasting fresh. A known carcinogen.

All these chemical additives are approved by health authority permitted to use in food manufacturing. Small amounts are considered safe.  Safe for healthy people, who are free from sickness, what about others who have eaten other sources of processed food which also has added preservatives as well? What about those who are diabetic, high cholesterol in their blood, on medication which may be intermixed with these food additives? What about those who on other medications and allergic to processed food? The exposure to these artificial ingredients are endless, and the long-term consequences unknown.

No wonder, there are so many sick persons of all ages, sex, and occupations. If we are all rightly advice and regarded as an acceptable permissible level of food additives in our food by the so-called experts and those in authorities to safeguard our national health, how then do we witness death by sicknesses and diseases as recorded by www.worldlifeexpectancy.com ?  Something is not quite right, somewhere, how can so many dies and suffer from one kind of sickness and  die by another disease, if everything we do as far as food is concerned is safe to eat? What is the truth ?  Who then is the dispenser of truth concerning our health and wellness?  This common-sense  rule to live by is as far as food is concerned.

Eat what is perishable and spoiled easily, but eat them while they are fresh. The chemical that kills the fungi, bacteria and germ can also kill the human cells, once enter the human digestive system.

The same teacher quote end my post, “ Three things cannot be long hidden. The sun, the moon and the truth.”   

Health with in your reach and for you to choose

The table above is a sample of how policy holders of a life insurance company in Malaysia paid the death claims in a typical month in 2002.

Notice the age of death, diseases  which caused the  death  and the most common causes of death.

The most overwhelming causes of death as appeared in the table is cancer.

Cancer has a certain common  pattern  in  its manifestation and how the sickness industry deals with it.

·         It develops over a period of time gradually

·         It appears to be hereditary passing from parents to children

·         It is usually  treated by conventional  western hospital  by drugs,  chemotherapy or  surgery

·         It treatments resulted in many side effects

·         It is expensive

·         It has very little chance of recovery  and victims die after medication.

·         It affects  all ages and gender

·         It is a very common cause of death in advanced industrial  nations.

·         Hospital and  pharmaceutical companies which  manufactured the cancer drugs make the most profit treating the patients.

·         60 % of all personal bankruptcies in USA are from huge medical bills  incurred in hospitals according to time magazine  4 April 2013

·         20% of USA   entire    GDP  or  US$ 2.8 trillion is spent in health care in 2013

·         Very little is spent in sharing with the victims the causes of cancers 

·         Alternative treatment  methods that work and focus on nutrition and natural means in harmony with natural laws are avoided by hospital.

·         Patients are not advice to life style changes in living and  proper food  which enhance healing

·         Doctors who advocate  effective alternative  treatment are persecuted  and  forced to leave the practice

·         Most of the aggressive  fatal  causing  treatment methods  are focus on killing the cancer cells which also kill the healthy cells in the body.

·         Almost  none of the treatment process is focus on dealing with the root causes of cancer, but entirely focus on suppression of the symptoms.

·         The culprit of the main causes of cancer such as toxins in the water, chemical preservatives in food additives, exposure to environmental  hazard , life style stress and lack of  exercise  are often  hardly mentioned in the treatment of cancer.

·         Cancer by its very expensive  treatment  method  is the motivation  for most consumers to buy critical illnesses insurance policies which  cover cancers  upon diagnosis.

What lessons can we learn from this reality  of cancer  as a  fact of life we all have to face?

First, our immune systems which  prevent and keep away any cancer cells  from  growing in our body and spread  to the entire body must be strengthen  and  build up. Our immune system is the best defense against all kind of cancer.

To preserve and  improve our immune system, we must prevent toxins from entering our bodies. From the air we breathe, the water we drink, the liquid we consume such as coffee, alcohol, juices and  food we  enjoy and  eat every day.

So we can start by stay away from breathing in polluted air,  drinking pure water from a distiller of our own home, and read the food label, and examine the ingredients  of processed, convenient food before deciding to buy such  unhealthy, nutrition depleted  food .  Remember to sleep sufficiently and  exercise  daily and keep a positive, optimistic attitude towards life.

It is still possible to live a healthy and diseases free life in this time and age. Listen to the wisdom of this quotation by Francis of Assisi ,” Start by doing what is necessary ,then  do what is possible, and suddenly you are doing  the impossible.”    

It is possible to drink pure water for health

Last Friday 8^th September 10, 2017, the Sunday daily carried a very disturbing article at the bottom front page news on “Tap water worldwide may contain plastic: US study”

London: Contamination with invisible fibers of micro plastics affects some 83% of urban tap water worldwide reaching 94% in the United States and 72% in Europe, according to a report published on Wednesday. The study by US based investigative journalism group Orb found “previously unknown plastic contamination in the tap water of cities around the world. It said the research, conducted by a public health expert from the University of Minnesota, showed that “ from the halls of the US Capitol to the shores of Lake Victoria in Uganda, women, children, men, and babies are consuming plastic with every glass of water.” More than 80% of the samples collected on five continents tested positive for plastic microfibers. Environmental campaigners Greenpeace said that the reported contamination of tap water was “ yet another unseen symptom of the ability of plastic pollution to get absolutely everywhere”

What is your personal response to this news? The denial of the reality of this pollution affecting you personally is the usual reaction.

What can I do to reverse this disturbing trend? How can  I allow this polluting water makes me a victim and a casualty in the long run? 

If your home is on fire, you will respond very fast, run out of the burning house, try to stop the burning, call the fire department. But when a slow acting plastic contamination in our tap water which kills us slowly, we react very differently with less urgency and action. This is a very dangerous trend.

Just like a frog being boiled slowly in warm water treats the rising temperature as a sauna, unlike being thrown into a boiling hot water, will jump out of the hot pot immediately.

Similarly, if a crook wants to steal money from bank depositors accounts, he will do it in a small amount, over a long period of time, from many different accounts rather than the big amount from some selected account holders.

Water that kills us slowly over a long period of time, will eventually claim more victims than a poison well that kills a few very quickly. 

In modern day expression, just as we can buy our life’s necessities by installments such as house, car, and other gadgets by installment, we also die by installment. Drinking polluted water which has plastic molecules is one example. It may take its toll in 20 years, but we are still the victim in the end.

WE have a choice not to drink this plastic contaminated water, just use a distiller to eliminate the plastic molecules. We take out the water molecules when they evaporate in the boiling chamber of the distiller into steam and condense back into the liquid water when we collect the pure water without any trace of a foreign particle such as micro plastic molecules.

Filters mostly remove suspended particles, solid dissolved in the water such as chemicals, pesticides, drug residues, hormones and other solvents cannot be screened out by filters. Plastic molecules similarly cannot be filtered out of tap water. Be healthy is a choice of life and the price:

uses the right tool to obtain your ideal drinking water.

Stop polluting our own bodies

Pollution affects the destiny of mankind

There are endless consequences to an act. The ripple effect has implication for the future of mankind.

Data obtained by the Guardian suggests that one million plastic bottles are purchased every minute worldwide, worse still this is expected to increase by 20% by 2024 reach more than ½  trillion sold every year by 2020.( The Guardian June 28, 2017)

What is the effect of this massive number of plastic bottles on the ocean?

It is estimated that close to 300 million tons of plastic are produced every year, more than half of which is for single use products. These discarded plastic bottles, bags, straws and other plastic end up largely in the oceans.( Plastic Oceans, the facts) to the tune of more than 8 million tons, a year carried along the ocean currents, swirling gyres of “plastic smog” now covering  about 40%  of the world’s oceans surfaces( The Center for Biological Diversity  plastic pollution)

Oceans are not the only receptacle of this ubiquitous plastic pollution.

A study of fresh water environments,83% of the fish had plastic debris in their guts, mostly micro plastics particularly microfiber. The fish appeared to consume more micro plastic near the urbanized section of the rivers and when fish ate a lot of the plastic, they eat less diverse varieties of other food items. So it is not only the marine life in the oceans that are being harmed by plastic debris, fresh water creatures are at risk.

The plastic pollution of such a magnitude means, our food from oceans and fresh water river carry plastic molecules and deposit their content in our human bodies.

Plastic molecules interfering with our physiology of metabolism and living processes in our bodies causing diseases and premature deaths in every age group, affecting reproduction of human race by lowering sperm count and the quality of the sperm.

As we are assaulted in every front by our own thoughtless act of living for now and no thought for the future, we have to ponder and act fast to reverse this down ward of self destruction.

To prevent the further accumulation of plastic molecules into our bodies through food, or drink we can do what is within our power to act.

Get a distiller to eliminate all sources of water pollutants from our drinking water. By distillation, we extract only the water molecules we need and screen out the dissolved contaminants such as herbicides, pesticides, hormones, medication from drugs, traces of treatment chemicals such as aluminium compounds, chlorine, and  traces of iron from rusty pipes.

Drinking two liters of water a day to replace fluid loss via urine, sweats, and dehydration in an air conditioned room, if our water has traces of these toxins in our life time we may have accumulated a few pounds of the residue of these contaminants in our system. No wonder, we are weak, sick and suffered from common chronic diseases such diabetes, hypertension, high blood pressure and cancers of all kind. Just drinking pure water alone, it will reduce the incidence of sickness and ailments by 1/3.

It is a wise move to drink pure water and prevent the pernicious effects of body pollution by our complacency of ignorance. If we drink and behave like the masses, we shall perish likewise, just like everybody else. Suffer the same way, die by the same diseases.