A BALANCING ACT

A BALANCING ACT

Your body is always seeking a balance and a perfect body would be one that is in perfect balance. You may think of that perfect balance as being a null point with no deficiencies or excesses but that would require an environment and a diet like the one in the proverbial “Garden of Eden”.

We however, live in an actual world where there are water filters that attempt to return water to its unpolluted state. Artificial fertilizers that only attempt to make the land as fertile as it once was. Air filters to purify the air, soaps, disinfectants and detergents to try and keep your immediate environment tidy and germ free but what do you do about your food when it has been sprayed with pesticides that penetrate the skin and are found in the fruit itself?

Cooking does nothing to destroy those chemical substances but in addition to doing nothing to get rid of the chemical problem, the chemical, it does destroy the natural, enzymes that would normally assist in digesting the fruits and vegetables?

Can you imagine what your stomach goes through trying to digest what is considered food, but instead is loaded with pesticides and preservatives that are present to keep it from breaking down but are consumed It’s like mission impossible headed for self-destruct.

What does your stomach do with that mass of denatured food? Ever had indigestion or heartburn? That’s your stomach saying.“Houston, we have a problem.” Your stomach does the best it can but there are limits to what your digestive system can handle. It was built to thrive on a healthy diet of natural, healthy food.

Eventually, what food content the body recognizes, along with that inert food and foreign chemical matter, is going to find its way to your liver where your liver is also given another impossible task of filtering useless and unrecognizable substances out of the blood.

These substances are toxic minerals and chemicals however, and your liver is really made to handle only organic waste can be excreted through the bowels and kidneys. Even in the small quantities in processed foods that are said to be harmless the accumulative affect can be great

These chemicals which are not acceptable or useful to any part of your body, are disregarded and must be stored somewhere. You may or may not consider this accumulation as harmful heavy metals but since they cannot all be expelled, they can have a devastating effect over a consistent period of time.

I have personally known folks who have reached a threshold of intolerance where even one piece of fruit. or a vegetable sprayed with a pesticide, (no matter how well it was washed) would put them in the hospital for 3 days in a compromised condition.

The two most likely places that toxins will be stored are in fat and in the liver itself. There is condition called steotosis where fat invades the liver. This condition leads to inflammation in the liver. Makes you wonder if the fat isn’t accumulating there to furnish a place for the liver to store the toxins?

Your body is very wise indeed and is able to improvise even with an unhealthy diet when that is all it has to work with. I welcome your comments and questions. We are all in this together to create a happy and healthy diet. Thanks for visiting and do come back again. Hope to see you tomorrow.