ALL FOODS ARE POISON?
Julie’s Blog 14th May 2017
One never knows if we are eating the right thing, the thing that will give healthful results or blast us into nutritional hell. I remember reading some years ago that in truth “All foods are poison to our bodies”. It is just that our bodies have learnt over aeons of time how to deal with any particular food. When I have studied lately how our body works, the amazing chemistry it produces with the nutrients that enter, I am amazed. And now I have to rethink that it is not all my body but just over half consists of microbes, according to Rob Knight Phd on a talk from University of California Television (UCTV). Each of these microbes being chemical factories on their own.
This then makes sense that as we move ever further away from simple real foods that our bodies start saying “Hell I don’t know how to deal with this or that particular food”. And our body talks to us by making us unwell, allergic to something, intolerant of another or just plain overweight. It has been talking to me over many years as this went wrong, then that and later having to have an operation to change or lose something. I always say I have gone to heaven a bit at a time, or hell I suppose if you are into such things. I think I can say that almost everyone of the episodes, as the doctors like to call them, have been because I ate the wrong things. But I only know that NOW!
Then again I did really know because I lived at a time when we knew that too much sugar, white bread, biscuits etc. were not good for you. I lost my first extra weight by following a booklet in the early 1960s that said “eat only meat and veg” And I lost weight. They didn’t mention fats at that time. I berate myself now that I listened to all the Low Fat nonsense that followed. But even then the booklet did not say continue to eat in this way until required weight and just add a bit more to be stable. No all the poison of 40 or more years is in my body, or been removed, even though I now follow a fairly strict LCHF Way of Eating I will have to deal with some problems to the end. I now can never eat bread again. The last time I did I had an horrific reaction. Boy, did my body tell me. Some foods are now real poisons for me and my body cannot deal with them any more.
I suspect this has happened or is happing to many here on our Support Group. We ate the wrong things and some of them our bodies cannot deal with any more. It is very hard when it is something you particularly like, when you know it will upset you. Some of us have a harder road to walk than others and that is the main reason for this group. To support each other and be offered ideas of where you can study and learn more. I really find that the more I learn about the body and its nutrition the easier I find it to follow a LCHF Way of Eating.
