Cardiovascular Disease and How to Prevent It
There are other nutritional deficiencies that effect the heart and vascular system. One illness you’ve probably heard of from the past is Beriberi, which is a lack of part of the B vitamin complex.
The problem in the United States is that when these interesting old names of nutritional deficiencies when heard – like scurvy and beriberi – the usual reaction is that they WERE something that happened a long time ago, and gosh aren’t we glad to live in modern times. If it isn’t recognized then it won’t be treated correctly. If it is discounted as a possible cause it will be missed.
But more to the point is, How could these “old” illnesses still be in existence in this day and age?
When I was growing up the way that crops were grown was a very sane, “respect the soil” way. Crops were rotated and sometimes a crop grown to be plowed under in order to “feed the soil”. The manure from the farm animals was used for fertilizer. This all has a name now – organic – but years ago it just was the way it was done. And when it was done that way the food grown on that soil nourished those who ate it.
Big business started taking over farming-and fertilizers became manufactured chemicals. NPK – that’s three minerals that have become a common fertilizer.
OK. But if it takes 63 minerals to run a body and there are 3 put on the soil – where do the remaining ones come from?
Once upon a time sitting down with a tomato and a salt shaker gave you a chance to taste the nectar of the gods and now it tastes like cardboard. Why!? It was all those wonderful minerals the body needs that made it taste divine. Now you taste pesticides. Healthy plants don’t need pesticides but plants today are not healthy. Mostly they look like food, just look like food but don’t contain the nourishment they once did. So where are you going to get the missing nutrients?
Eating well is the challenge. It takes a lot of work to know what is missing, what fruits and veggies conventionally grown could you safely eat and which not? If you can eat organic, that is a great start. Conventionally grown, rule of thumb is, if you peel off the outside of the food, then the inside should be relatively safe, if you eat the outside (e.g. grapes, strawberries) go organic.
Now, back to the heart, arteries and veins. This system never sleeps, so it cannot be without necessary building blocks. This is crucial because the body is constantly replacing itself, for instance, all the blood cells are new every 90-120 days; all the bones every about seven years; and everything else somewhere in between.
Want a great body? It depends on what you eat today. You decide – and nowhere is that truer than the cardiovascular system. You must have the macro nutrients and the micro nutrients as well – that’s a way of saying ALL of the necessary ones.
Exactly what should you eat? Email me, and I’ll tell you!
-- Doc McCullen
The problem in the United States is that when these interesting old names of nutritional deficiencies when heard – like scurvy and beriberi – the usual reaction is that they WERE something that happened a long time ago, and gosh aren’t we glad to live in modern times. If it isn’t recognized then it won’t be treated correctly. If it is discounted as a possible cause it will be missed.
But more to the point is, How could these “old” illnesses still be in existence in this day and age?
When I was growing up the way that crops were grown was a very sane, “respect the soil” way. Crops were rotated and sometimes a crop grown to be plowed under in order to “feed the soil”. The manure from the farm animals was used for fertilizer. This all has a name now – organic – but years ago it just was the way it was done. And when it was done that way the food grown on that soil nourished those who ate it.
Big business started taking over farming-and fertilizers became manufactured chemicals. NPK – that’s three minerals that have become a common fertilizer.
OK. But if it takes 63 minerals to run a body and there are 3 put on the soil – where do the remaining ones come from?
Once upon a time sitting down with a tomato and a salt shaker gave you a chance to taste the nectar of the gods and now it tastes like cardboard. Why!? It was all those wonderful minerals the body needs that made it taste divine. Now you taste pesticides. Healthy plants don’t need pesticides but plants today are not healthy. Mostly they look like food, just look like food but don’t contain the nourishment they once did. So where are you going to get the missing nutrients?
Eating well is the challenge. It takes a lot of work to know what is missing, what fruits and veggies conventionally grown could you safely eat and which not? If you can eat organic, that is a great start. Conventionally grown, rule of thumb is, if you peel off the outside of the food, then the inside should be relatively safe, if you eat the outside (e.g. grapes, strawberries) go organic.
Now, back to the heart, arteries and veins. This system never sleeps, so it cannot be without necessary building blocks. This is crucial because the body is constantly replacing itself, for instance, all the blood cells are new every 90-120 days; all the bones every about seven years; and everything else somewhere in between.
Want a great body? It depends on what you eat today. You decide – and nowhere is that truer than the cardiovascular system. You must have the macro nutrients and the micro nutrients as well – that’s a way of saying ALL of the necessary ones.
Exactly what should you eat? Email me, and I’ll tell you!
-- Doc McCullen