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Eating Natural foods and Exercise the Answer to Child Heart Health

I always emphasize the eating of natural foods over manufactured whether it is fast food or food bought prepared. And as early as 1951, Dr. Royal Lee gave a speech which contained this quote:  “One of the biggest tragedies of human civilization is the precedent of chemical therapy over nutrition.   It’s a substitution of artificial therapy over natural; of poisons over food, in which we are feeding people poison in trying to correct the reactions of starvation.”

Medications are those chemicals he speaks of so called artificial therapy. Today we are facing an obesity epidemic and also a diabetes one which has the capacity to bring our health system to its knees. Can we afford more obesity and heart related illnesses? I think not.

Natural foods are what our ancestors ate along with daily exercise. Today our children are developing diabetes and many are obese. That is because many sit at home and play video games and snack on manufactured foods. Foods that are designed to taste and look good, but guess what – they are toxic to their hearts and their bodies in general. They are not physically active and in some areas of the country children have been placed on medications (Statins and Children) for heart disease.

Starting an eight-year old child on heart medication (Cholesterol Drugs Urged for Children) is really a bit too much – isn’t it? How about throwing away the video games, fast food, eating your vegetables, and riding your bike like the older generations did?

The new president wants to give universal health care of some kind. Do you really think we all can afford it with our children starting on medications?


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