Pure Foods-Pure Joy?
It’s not a new fact that pure foods raise your vibration. Science has come on board with this idea in recent years. After years of pumping society with vibration blocking foods-starches, high fructose syrup, heavy dense foods with little nutritional value, and engineered meats that also have limited nutritional value, the yummy-to-tummy pipeline for corporate food America is finally being intercepted by science and stomachs.
From Whole Foods to fact sheets-from Masterclass to Mom’s Organic Market-people are finally getting the message that the American diet of potato chips and hamburgers does not induce wisdom, or health for that matter.
But what of it? And why are some people still lost in the 1950's, or worse yet, eating McDonald’s every day despite the many megaphone messages that have been broadcast to the public about how heinously toxic and inhuman McDonald’s food is?
My research based on self-reporting done via social media outlets-i.e. people’s accounts of why they eat low-nutrition foods (notice I don't say “badly”), is that for some McDonald’s is both the only affordable option for them and also the fastest, least effort option when they are burnt out and overworked by long shifts and have minimal energy to search or forage for healthy foods, prepare a meal and set it to table.
What about children, however, who develop a taste for commodified meals? Are they dealt a hand in the dream-scape of modern culture that tells them, that fun and happiness exist in yonder-burger? Perhaps.
I can’t help but wonder what our society would look like if Seaweed Snax or veggie burgers at drive thrus were served.
There is nothing unnatural about craving fat and salt. We know from studying the science of human evolution that people are primed to crave these high-value molecules. However, we are not meant to eat them in a continuous stream of fat and meat sliding down our gullets.
We are also meant to evolve in how we eat and think.
Pure Foods such as healthily grown vegetables are a direct shot of wisdom into our spiritual cells and our physical cells. I believe one reason people resist healthy eating is they simply haven’t been eating healthy foods long enough to appreciate the wisdom and health that come from it.
Detoxing the body can take time, and before you reach the “health” point there is the pain point. Americans are also not encouraged to endure “difficult things” in the vein of wisdom. As a culture, we have been encouraged to endure difficult things like scarcity, job loss, and a healthcare system only accessible to the rich. In other ways, we have been encouraged to rely on a slippery slope of convenience.
Fast. easy. good. Instant.
When we run from health we also run from wisdom. We run from a challenge. we run from ourselves — just something to consider.
Nobody is perfect, the crack is where the light enters, and nobody can eat perfectly, or live perfectly. It is a losing game, that some health YouTubers and proselytizers can’t seem to grasp.
But surely there must be a middle ground between worshiping green juice for no reason and knowing that food is thy medicine. I believe we are approaching that space. There have been great advancements in understanding food production and nutrition in recent years. The organic label now commands a pretty penny and a higher value culturally.
But the forces behind poor eating habits in America have vested interests in keeping people locked in the low-nutrition Ecosphere. Why? Some say because enlightenment frees people from the behaviors and mentalities that promote poverty, mind-control, or mind-abandonment, that make those companies’ worlds go round.
Freedom of thought equals greater freedom of action. Strangely, the Bible has an interesting quote about eating and nutrition. Although the Bible actually has many very specific pieces of advice about how to go from eating whole grains to fresh vegetables, it also says something to the effect of “stop trying to analyze what your friend is eating”, or rather, don’t worry what other people eat.
I find this to be a very strange and interesting thing to consider. I think what is meant here is that what is good for one, is not good for another. So we must also consider that some people simply may not want to eat a fully healthy diet just yet. Either way, I am encouraged to see so many of the advancements in nutrition that have come about in recent years, even if they are tainted by the ever-present specter of Stevia and other cancer-causing sweeteners. One step forward, one step back.
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