IS MODERN FOOD INDUSTRY THE ONLY CAUSE OF DISEASE?:

The source of the Ancients Greek remarkable knowledge about health linked to lifestyle and spirituality can certainly be traced back into their
Indo-European origins, linked to the Universal knowledge of the Vedas and the Ayurveda.

Among one of the most brilliant sage and philosophers was, Hippocrates
(Born: about 470 BC in Chios-now Khios, Greece - Died: about 410 BC)
" Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food."

A similar principle is the foundation of Ayurveda principle of food
consumption.
The wise men of those times also stated that being simply a vegetarian was not all that simple as amongst the animals are several vegetarian species as well; what distinguished humanity from animals, is the fact that we can have a spiritual approach to our lives, so that health seem to be the harmonious result of a trinity based on DIET, LIFESTYLE, INCLUDING SPIRITUALITY. Without these three premises the equation doesnt work.

We have to remember that even if longevity seems to be an appealing ideal, the amount of years lived is not a synonym of quality of life. We are able to extend life span in our times, in certain countries, like probably never before anywhere.
This does not mean that our octogenarians are an example of health.
It is possible that they have spent their last decades prostrated in a wheelchair in some neglected asylum of any anonymous big city, fed by more pills than you can count on your fingertips.
We can live in material abundance without having ever flavored some freshly picked food in our mouth.
We can be so poor that the few roots and grains that reached our mouth never gave us some quality of life... health of our ancestors.

First myth: It is too often believed that just eating an unhealthy diet
composed by industrially produced food produces ill health, which is quite well established by now, but we would like to consider the possibility of many more factors involved in producing sickness.
We can use a proof of the opposite, for example the consumption of
biological food anywhere worldwide before the beginning of the 1900’s,
before the invention of "modern processed food" that did not seem to bring a brilliant health per se.



On the other extreme we find food fanatics, obsessed by their diet to be prone to some diseases as well, some Macrobiotic followers who took it too seriously did not do well to their health, neither did some vegetarian that never exercised and ate processed and canned vegetarian foods.

Putting aside for a moment the poverty and misery in which many people lived in the last centuries, the few "fortunate" others that had access to a
balanced diet, still were sick All the food they ate then was virtually
biological;

The further back in time, we go the more the food was pure, and the
water as well, but as we consider ancient Rome & Greece they still were sick, and they had sicknesses that seem modern, ARTHRITIS, TUBERCULOSIS, AND TEETH DECAY, to name a few; CHILDREN MORTALITY AND DELIVERY MORTALITY WERE HIGH AS WELL
according to several researchers, mainly due to poor hygiene habits

To come back to the average poor population from the 19th and 20th centuries, their high mortality rate was due to similar causes, very poor life conditions and lifestyle with the beginning of industrialization in the big cities and the famine in many places in the countryside. Worse was it even during the Middle Ages, with the frequent devastating epidemic plagues.

Sickness was present even going back to such ideally "natural" times as
prehistory, during which the population had a quite healthy life style,
plenty of fresh air and physical exercise that would make the envy of more then one of us in our sedentary jobs, lacking of fresh air and sunlight...

In the PREHISTORIC POPULATION there is more and more evidence that cannibalism habits, that were quite widespread produced Prion disease a highly degenerative condition somehow similar to the Mad Cows disease, only in its human version. This highly negative habit seem to be the root of many evil among humans.

There is another myth that is widespread among alternative philosophies of our new age movement, which doesn’t seem right: They often portray the "tribe" or "primitive" people as healthy & non-violent, mainly vegetarian and having an idyllic life style ; which is quite far from being true, in most cases;



Nevertheless as a counterpart it is certainly true that "the bad foreigners " brought many new devastating disease to them, like the syphilis in Polynesia, smallpox and flu in North America, etc.

Primitive tribe people had severe health problems related to monotony in the diet, scarce food, famine due to exposure to the wild elements of nature; Despite of all their food being 100 % "bio", they were all far from being vegetarians and that is another big myth; most of the people would be shocked seeing a turtle barbecue, among Australian Aboriginal, or blood & milk milkshake at Massaiâ s breakfast, just to name those few examples.

In short avoiding industrial processed food is certainly beneficial but
- Animal consumption could be in the origin of poor health in earlier
- Ill health in the past was not reduced by biological food consumption
- Lifestyle is important but there is more to it too
- The causes of the mortality of our ancestors, ill health or short to very short life-span they had, was certainly not due to lack of purity in their nutrients or lack of exercise, but by other various causes not yet clearly determinated by scholars ( prehistory specialists, archeologists, paleo-anthropologists etc).

As stated above, some point out causes like FAMINE, MONOTONY in their diet (always eating the same, lack of variety), RIVALIZING AND KILLING between the groups, GENETIC INCOMPATIBILITY between them, EXCESS OF ANIMAL PROTEIN AND CANNIBALISM in some of them and a physically very demanding, EXHAUSTING LIFE STYLE AND LACK OF HYGIENE under certain climatic circumstances.
We can finally try to make those conditions altogether better, so that the
far and estranged mythic time of the ancient Vedas when the ideal life span was considered to be 120 years, meant to be lived In The Harmony Of All Vital Aspects Of Life, Wouldnt Seem An Impossible Aim For Us To Reach.

As Beatriz Beshara a wholistic Nutritionist living in Spain says

Juntos por una vida digna……. TOGETHER FOR A BETTER WORLD