SAD

Healthy Diets, Not Standard-American Diet Prevent Disease
article from al-natural-health-and-beauty.com

The Standard-American Diet is sad.

Many Americans assume that the United States is the world's healthiest nation. Unfortunately, statistics show that we are not as healthy as we may think.

We do enjoy one of the highest standards of living in the world, with extraordinary emergency medical technology and trauma care.

The average American has first-class access to emergency health care, but this fact doesn't make us healthy. When we evaluate our national lifestyle as one of healthy living we get a different picture.

The Standard-American diet typically might include a doughnut or muffin with coffee and orange juice for breakfast followed by a mid-morning bagel with cream cheese.
Lunch would likely be a turkey sandwich with some chips and a soft drink-or a hefty fast-food burger with extra cheese, a large order of french fries, and a "super-sized" soft drink.
The afternoon hours would feature an "energy-boosting" candy bar from a vending machine with another soft drink.
Dinner promises a meat-and-potatoes entree with a roll and margarine, some green beans for the health-conscious, and some ice cream for desert.

This diet amounts to a prescription for poor health at best and disaster at worst. Virtually any departure from this diet will make you feel better. There is very good reason that the Standard-American-Diet is referred to by its acronym-SAD!

Ancestors Healthy Diet
Just one hundred years ago or less, the Standard-American Diet was dramatically different from what we eat today.
Widespread corporate "mono-agriculture" with concentration on singlecrop specialties and chemical fertilizers and pesticides was unheardof then. The typical Standard-American-Diet consisted mostly of fruits, vegetables, wild grain and seeds, fish, raw, unpasteurized dairy products, and meat from wild animals. Our ancestors consumed 30 to 65 percent of their daily calories (and up to 100 grams of fiber a day) from a wide variety of fresh fruits and vegetables. That is why, long before the discovery of vitamins, people who had access to healthy foods lived extremely long lives without vitamin deficiencies or major illnesses.

Their protein needs were met by consuming pasture-fed animals, wild game, and fish that were rich in highly beneficial omega-3 fatty acids and conjugated linoleic acid. These fats protected our ancestors against diseases such as cancer, diabetes, and heart disease.

Laws of Diet-Nutrition
Many who violate the laws of diet-nutrition are ignorant of the relation of the laws of living (eating, drinking, and working) to their health. If then we would resort to simple means, and follow the simple laws of health that we have been neglecting-proper diet, use of pure water, fresh air, sunshine, rest, and nature's remedies, herbs, etc., nature would restore the body to its original health.

The Standard-American Diet would be sad no more.