We already lost control of our lives way back when Harvard told us [in the 60's] that fat was bad for us. Meanwhile in this biggest bait and switch ever, "Big Food" was adding sugar to every food we ate, (including to ketchup). Don't look for sugar on the label, since there are [62] names for it! The processing of our normal natural foods was ramped up 60 years ago, in the name of convenience. But these added chemicals are toxic to our body.
But we need to take responsibility, since we wanted instant everything! We demanded convenience so we did have a role to play. So we must also take some responsibility for our lost control over our lives. Women's lib had an effect as well .. with no Mom at home, we required FAST meal preparation. We are really all to blame, and need to TAKE BACK OUR CONTROL.
But long shelf life was really the actual Corporate motivation, for these additional toxins. Longer shelf life increases profit. Plus, "they" soon realized that if we got sick from this unnatural body invasion, there would be profit in "making us better". I always wondered back even when I was 10, why do people drink Coke (sugar water) when they are thirsty? Back in the 50's, I could not figure it out, but of course now we know sugar addicts us to wanting more.
Is it possible sugar is even worse than just addictive? I propose it destroys our WILLPOWER! .. no willpower?? Then we shop more, spend more, owe more interest on things we never needed the first place! We need to take back control from the advertising/ marketing industry that is now the same size as the Healthcare Industry. (see Ad Age research study $3 TRILLION to con us into buying what we don't need)
When I got older I kept hearing the word CURE .. but had begun to study Nutrition and knew food was the building block of our body. Since I was also studying design, wanting to be an architect .. why not build OUR HOUSE (our body) with good bricks? We seemed to be building our body "houses" with empty calorie garbage instead of quality bricks! Still later I began to wonder about this weird strange Health system we were stuck in, finding cures for disease. Instead of CURE why not PREVENT? Curing without fixing the CAUSEseemed like putting paint on a crumbling house foundation. So I began to frequent the first Health Stores and buy books on health. Why is it most of these were NOT in libraries?
From the 60's right through to after 2010, those books were underground, considered to be written by scam artists or at least weird people who knew little about accepted Medical Science. Then came Dr Atkins whose Low Carb diet and books were very successful and in bookstores mainstream. How strange he was later suggested to be a quack .. and even more strangely, he mysteriously slipped on ice and died. He was the beginning of the FAT/SUGAR secret getting out. He would be so happy today seeing how hundreds of Doctors have used his early ideas. Hundreds of NYT Best Selling authors, along with much new research, have taken his initial "carbs are bad" concept as foundation. These many books expose the system to keep us ill, and show us how we build REAL health for our bodies and also our minds.