It is important here to understand the importance of the food we eat in our total health = wholeness. Just as what you say and what you think has the power to bring life or death to you, so to does your food. What we put in our mouth can and is either making us more vital, more full of life or it is making us less vital and slowly bringing on death.
This is a fact many would like to deny because of the pleasure food brings to us. So much of our life revolves around food, it is the center of our social structure, all holidays, gatherings, parties and social meetings revolve predominantly around food. This is great if the food brings life into the body; it is not great is the food brings slow death into the body.
Why do I say slow death? Because what you put into your mouth today does not have an immediate negative effect on your health by bringing death, but a progressive weakening of your body and eventual death. The seeds you planted yesterday are bearing fruit today with ill health, but the seeds you plant today of proper diet, nervous system balance, proper thoughts, etc. will bear fruit tomorrow of vibrant health. With 88 percent of people in this country dying from either heart disease, cancer, diabetes and of those almost 9 out of 10 people, 60-90 percent of them could be made well if they would only change their diet and lifestyle. It shows us how much health is our own responsibility, not putting the blame of our sickness on anyone or anything else.
The problem is the flesh — the part of our bodies that says “feed me” and “I just want to indulge in what makes me feel good for the moment.” These attitudes are killing us. If we just look around, 80 percent of the U.S. population is overweight and 30 percent obese. This is the largest percentage of any population in the entire history of the world. Now it is understandable that a certain small percentage has physiological problems affecting glands and organs that cause weight gain and those people are not always to blame for their weight problems.
The largest percentage, however, is people who have grown up on poor food choices due to incorrect food instruction, poor eating habits and seeking pleasure in life from an area that was never meant to bring pleasure, just to sustain health.
1. Poor Food Choices
From the time we were born, we were taught to eat. So many mothers  weaned their children off the best food source on the planet for infants (mothers’ milk), and switched them to a very poor substitute — cooked refined cereals and other cooked processed foods. The results: and early onset of immune system weakening and the development of food sensitivities and allergies. If this was not bad enough, as we grow we are indoctrinated into the classic “four food group” concept in which two of them have contributed greatly to the declining health of our nation. (Dairy, Meats), Breads/Grain and Fruits and Vegetables.
If you could only understand how milk and all dairy products, meats and all animal products in general are slowly destroying your gift of vibrant health. If you could only get the revelation that we are what we eat and if we eat death (animal food) we will bring slow death to our bodies, but if we eat live plant base foods of vegetables, sprouts, whole grains, legumes, seeds, nuts and fruits, we will bring more vibrant life. Remember, dead food makes dead people, live food makes living vibrant people.
I discussed all this in the section on “Why a Vegan Diet?”, but let me just restate a few reasons to support this view. The China Project was a huge study done in China to research sickness and disease. It found that the two greatest causes of ill health were cholesterol (an animal product) and animal protein (even lean meat like chicken and fish). So by eliminating animal products from one’s diet, one would greatly and positively impact one’s health. How great? Well, with the average American who consumes animal products, his /her chances of dying of a heart attack are at least 50 percent. By contrast, the chance of having a heart attack for a person who consumes a total Vegan Diet (the removal of all animal food from the diet) drops down to less than four percent.
We need to rethink our food choices and rethink why we eat and what we eat. Don’t just do it because it’s always been done that way. Instead, seek and explore and you will discover what food choices really are the best.
 

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