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A primary part of improving your health involves learning what NOT to do as well as what to do. For instance, learning what foods carry the highest pesticide/herbicide load and avoiding them is vital. Another key is learning about the ill-effects of consuming added sugars and refined grains, which promote diabetes, heart disease and cancer, and reducing, or hopefully, eliminating these products.
Getting the facts on food and lifestyle is not easily done in this time of “science for money”, where processed food and medical drug studies are funded by the very makers of those foods and drugs, and poor results and side-effects are often hidden from the public eye.
The oxycontin disaster that shows no decline was fueled by a well-known and respected physician (these are dubbed KOL’s for “Knowledge Opinion Leaders”) who received substantial financial gain promoting the use of this “synthetic heroin”, down-playing the risk of addiction and death they pose.
Recently released documents, some of which required a Freedom of Information Request, show an extensive review of clinical studies of the flu drug Tamiflu did not support claims of lowered risk of flu complications or that its benefits out-weighed the risks. The medical doctor leading the study, said “I wouldn’t give it (Tamiflu) for symptom relief…I’d give paracetemol (Tylenol).” The US Government has spent $1.3 billion stockpiling this drug.
Monsanto, originator of the herbicide RoundUp (Glyphosate), is seeing this product removed from entire countries, since the World Health Organization classified it as a “probable human carcinogen” in the last year. The US Government has recently increased allowed amounts of this product in our food supply. Recent documents released show Monsanto knew of the cancer connection in the 1980’s.
The bottom line, for me, is that Man’s cultures (the food, work, spiritual and community practices of various peoples) which developed over millennia, is what enabled Man’s survival to this point. That, and improved sanitation and hygiene. We have not ‘made it’ because we have Doctors – whether Medical, Chiropractic, Naturopathic, etc.
We have made it to this point primarily due to the adaptive wisdom of the body to its environment. We have made it in spite of the many “Progress Traps” man makes for money. So when you are told to run from the sun or to not worry about the toxins in your food, or that early to bed-early to rise is not really a big thing, just think of how this jibes with our past. Living in alignment with our history, acting with “Ancestral Accuracy”, is vital to achieve the health and happiness that is possible for each of us.
Dr. Huntington practices Chiropractic, Biomedical Acupuncture and Physiotherapy in Oracle, Az. 520-896-9844 huntingtonchiro@hotmail.com.
John Huntington is a local business owner in Oracle. He is a chiropractor with many years in the community. He writes a health related article in Pinal Nugget.
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