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Emotional Wellbeing and Our Food by Wendell Fowler
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re diet cola, GMO foods, labgrown meats or powdered orange juice better than the real thing? Many today insist “there ain’t nothing like the real thing.” Their claim: the less we do to process our food, the more the food is
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able to do for us. The fuel we choose influences our EQ (emotional intelligence) more than we realize. Truth is, our body requires specific, high vibrational vitamin nutrition from food and quality supplementation to be whole. When diesel fuel goes in a gas tank, the car will run for a few miles or so, the gasoline that’s still in the fuel line gets used up, then the engine shuts down. Our sacred, energetic body is no different related to today’s dietary departure from nature. Is the current western diet of energetically dead, processed food causing widespread vitamin deficiency resulting in diminished health and happiness? In a word, yes. Sure, ephemeral pleasure comes from a delicious piece of cake, but in the long run, regular consumption causes obesity-induced unhappiness, stress, depression, a compromised immune system and disease. I get it. Earth’s burgeoning over-pop-
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ulation requires mass produced machine cuisine, and a lot of it. However, is there a tradeoff between the wholesome nutrientdense nutrition of our ancestors and industrialized mass-produced quantities of food-like substances? The ethical question is, should man industrially graft the hand of nature, or return to the locavorism of our ancestors? In a CNN op-ed, Akash Goel, an assistant professor of medicine at Weill Cornell / New York Presbyterian Hospital and sustainable food advocate, wrote that the American diet is killing us. Both JAMA and Lancet harmonize. Over a century ago, man moved away from the local agrarian community to agribusiness. The American diet did a 180 from largely highly energetic foods in their original state, to highly processed, low vibration foods. The diet-related disease tragedy we face today, partially due to a compromised immune system, is but one unintended consequence. Washing-
