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Calorie counting is going off the deep end in American culture. Calorie counting is not benefiting the American public. Calorie content of food is not an indicator of the amount of weight you will gain. The amount of weight you gain will depend on your choice of food, and the amount. To many this may seem like calorie counting.

Calorie Counting Fails

Calorie counting is not functional when you consider the deeper meaning of food. That is because our concept of calorie counting in not rooted in nature. Calorie counting has become popular with consumers because of how food is sourced.

The aesthetics of the packaged food is more of a problem than calories. What is in the packaged food is responsible for mitochondrial decay and aging, cellular degeneration, cardiovascular disease, and the obesity epidemic. The calories provided are a mute issue.

Plenty of people who counted calories wind up with a gastric bypass. It isn’t because they couldn’t count it is precisely because they could count. They most likely were told to count the calories.  Most people are looking at the wrong numbers. When they consume food they are looking at calories and not necessarily nutrients. When your body has adequate nutrients it stops feeling starved and the craving subside.

Nutrients Count

According to Bruce Ames who developed the Triage Theory of Aging, obese people are hungry all the time because the body is craving missing nutrients such as magnesium. Dr..Ames is emeritus professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of California, Berkeley. In the Life Extension Magazine dated August 2011 he states that Americans are filling up with junk and are wildly deficient in vitamins and minerals. No where in the article does he blame obesity on too many calories.

People who opt for gastric bypass have bypassed the laws of nature. They weren’t getting enough nutrients to support their body. These surgical interventions for obesity are not reserved for only morbid obesity, they are now being approved for people who are overweight and tried everything else.

Macronutrients

To run your metabolism you need the basic macronutrients and these come from fats and carbohydrates. Every metabolic pathway requires micronutrients to supply the calories. Low fat, no fat and no calorie sodas are not the solution but the problem. We are a society obsessed with the calorie count of every morsel of food we put into our mouths.

Metabolic function depends on how we prioritize what we consume. If calorie counting is on top of the list we will suffer an alarming rate of both obesity and chronic health problems. So far that looks like the course of action America has taken to fight the rising rate of obesity. Calorie counting is more that a phrase or faze we are going through, it is what is blatantly touted as a cure for the obesity epidemic.

A majority of people know that medicinal compounds found in plants find their way to pharmaceutical labs. Plants are what makes and shapes the pharmaceutical industry. To restructure plant compounds into more effective drugs is enabling the drug companies to expand.

The demand for new and better drugs is at the center of this search. For a long time humans have used a variety of plants for medicinal purposes. The difference now is that chemists have found new ways to expand plants pharmaceutical value through genetic engineering.

Pharmacology

Pharmacology tries to improve the original structure. They have seen glimmers of hope by doing this. The real breakthroughs is not in capturing some variation, but in the shrinking our reliance on modifying through technology. Turning a plant into something different and expecting it to exceed its already majestic properties is the wrong focus.

What we really need is the soil quality that was present before we depleted the mineral quality. Genetic manipulation doesn’t offer benefits and will challenge the future of our food supply. All the public can do is wait, wonder and worry if there will be unintended consequences.

Natures Healing

This is a way to take natures powerful healing plants and turn them into cash cows. So what they have are literally doing is crossing a cash cow and a natural resource. Turning plants into a more bankable substance may not be real progress. Science may be taking natures powerful healing ability and changing it into an unnatural compound.

Engineering new genes into plants has been going on for awhile. Scientists developed corn that could produce and insecticide, which comes from a bacterial gene. Corn which was altered to produce an insecticide is polluting the water and streams near the corn fields. Bloomberg reports that 85% of the corn grown in the U.S. is genetically modified. This toxic corn is feed to livestock.

If plants are the way to treat disease, why haven’t we utilized the healing properties by consuming them as a diet staple, and ensuring that they grow in nutrient rich soil? Plants are already nutritionally potent and complete concentrated sources of healing compounds. They can protect, stimulate, regenerate cells and are easy-to-assimilate. They come as a balanced formula.

Science

While science spends so much time to see that we have a diet of engineered foods that devours our nutrients, they are looking to fix the health problems that are produced by bombarding our systems with prescription drugs. Now, they will take the foods that heal and turn them into pills, and powders that are easy and convenient t to take. They have restructured a fresh whole food, shrinking its nutritional value, and inflating its monetary worth.

The American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) highlighted the emerging research showing that even in later life; many cancers will be delayed or prevented by vegetables, fruit, and activity.

Vegetables and Fruit Protective Formula 

Vegetables and fruit are a protective formula. Anyone who wants to take care of themselves and their health or is worried about aging, plant food is designed to protect people.

They give the maximum protection with the most ease of use. It is like health insurance, it will save you money on prescriptions in the long run. Just for energy, boost plant food and physical activity. You will get long lasting results.

Recent Recommendations

These research findings reflect the recent surge in the study of diet and activity on aging. According to the latest estimates, nearly 4 in 5 cancers are diagnosed after the age of 55. Also, by age 64 a person’s cancer risk is 10 times that of younger people. What delays aging also lowers cancer risk.

Murky Science  

Here is why it is murky science. Aging has never before upped the risk of every chronic condition known to mankind. People did slow down and develop some problems, but the laundry lists of infirmities were no where near the number of conditions seen today.

What gives us a sense that aging brings about all these conditions, is that the taxing effects of our diets, stress levels, poor habits finally catching up with us as we age. Humans are built to perform well though out their lifetime. Feeling worse as you age has to do more with your having a backed-up, overloaded, crippled and sluggish system. The flawed thinking is that your body is in danger of every infection and disease as you age.

As you age you can have a healthy heart, blood pressure, sugar levels, adrenal functions, cholesterol levels, immune system, normal prostate, a good digestive tract, good circulation, and a strong back. Powerful health is created from the materials that you provide your body with. For your body to run its best you have to treat it well.

The Root of All Disease

The root of all disease including cancer starts simply. The everyday symptoms are letting you know that your body is not working efficiently. The signs are abdominal discomfort, allergies, anxiety, backaches, constipation, depression, fatigue, food cravings, headaches, hemorrhoids, indigestion, insomnia, irritability, lack of sexual drive and function, memory problems, and weight gain.

So instead of blaming everything on aging the increasing health care crisis is a reflection of lifestyle.

Fruit and Vegetables to the Rescue

Talk about simply solutions, this is the simplest. Fruits and vegetables grown in mineral-rich soil are an extremely concentrated source of nutrients. They are both regenerative and build the supply of vitamins, minerals, and enzymes for the body to use.

The C Complex nutrients like bioflavonoids, hesperidins, and rutin are known to help the immune system. This is the first line of defense that keeps the immune system in top form.

Micronutrients, trace elements, and nutritional compounds are what will keep cancer at bay. This isn’t a matter of age, but a matter of nutrition. If you clean up your act your body will respond with better digestion, more energy, better memory, and emotional stability.