Seismic Shift: Debilitating Disease is the World’s New Scourge By Natural Health Expert, Frank Mangano

In which time period would you rather live: when infectious diseases were rampant or when debilitating diseases were rampant?

Ideally, you wouldn’t want to live in either, but if you happened to pick debilitating diseases—congratulations! You just won an all expenses paid trip to…today, where debilitating diseases run amok.

If you’re a student of history, you know that infectious diseases once ravaged the world. The influenza pandemic in 1918 wiped out between 25 and 40 million in one year; the black death of 1347 to 1352 killed 25 million Europeans when the world population was 500 million; and smallpox was responsible for killing between 300 and 500 million in the 20th century.

Today, while infectious diseases are still prevalent, they are no where near as prevalent as yesteryear. In fact, according to a recent publication of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, there has been a decline in the number of infectious diseases claiming lives. But those numbers have shifted to another health concern, the growing pandemic of debilitating diseases like obesity, diabetes, cancer, arthritis and heart disease.

And what do you know? The shift traces back to the decline in the world’s health habits.

As the study documents in excellent detail, describing the five stages of the “nutrition transition,” the eating habits and daily activities of people living in the Paleolithic era complemented one another. Most people who worked were hunters, varying their diets to complement their active lifestyle by consuming low-fat animals caught in the wild and plant by-products. Most conspicuously absent from their daily regimen were processed foods, due to limited technology.

But as time marched on and as technology grew more advanced, a seismic shift occurred in what people ate, people’s lifestyle patterns and, most conspicuously, the overwhelming availability of processed foods. This trend led to today’s trend of degenerative diseases: a rise in obesity (a precursor to diabetes), a rise in various cancers (some of which may be linked to chemicals used in food production) and the leading cause of death in America, heart disease (which is influenced by the kinds of foods we eat, particularly the kinds of fats).

The consensus among the researchers reviewing this trend is the global rise in sugary sodas consumed—not to mention low-fiber snacks, saturated and hydrogenated fats from meats and processed foods—and the rise in degenerative diseases is no coincidence. And because technology has paved the way for more convenience in both diets and exercise (or lack there of), the decline in activity levels adds insult to injury.

There is some good news to report, however, as two countries have seen a decline in obesity prevalence, Brazil and South Korea. According to the study, the numbers began to drop once the countries respective governments began campaigning for more traditional meals to be served both in the home and at school. South Korea, who has long championed diets rich in vegetables, has gone so far as to advise newly married women against preparing Western-style cuisine.
Not a bad idea for any country.

Smallpox was eradicated from the earth in 1980 after many countries banded together to thwart the deadly disease. It took several tries—five tries, actually—but it was eventually done thanks to a worldwide, concerted effort.

Before debilitating diseases become a pandemic issue, nations should band together by promoting organic foods, which naturally boost our immune systems; I have no doubt we’d start to see the number of debilitating diseases reach record lows.

We may not be able to choose what time period we live in, but we can choose how we eat, which has a direct impact on our future health and our families’ well-being.

If you’d like to view the journal’s study you can find it at the following address:

http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/full/84/2/289#SEC8

 

Frank Mangano is a natural health expert and best selling author who teaches you how to dramatically improve your health naturally, without expensive and potentially dangerous prescription drugs. Here’s a special F-R-E-E 38 page report titled, “The Best Natural Ways to Lower Your Blood Pressure, Reduce Your Waistline and Take Back Your Health:”