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Thought for the Day
Optimal nutrition is only to be derived from a complementary balance of proteins in proper equilibrium; vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, certain fats - and water.
Most disease syndromes originate with sub-optimal nutrition; with none more so than in regions where the consequences of inadequate "single-food availability" is becoming, or has become the phenomenon of crippling malnutrition and poverty.
Intensive modern research is validating, with none contradicting, that with "orthomolecular" nutrition and therapy – that which provides the body with the correct/correcting (ortho-) nutritional molecules as provided by proper protein, vitamin and mineral nutrition – most disease syndromes would simply not even arise.
These principles were recognised as long ago as Ancient Greece, where Hippocrates reputedly remarked "let food be your medicine; and medicine your food".
Regrettably, these concepts appear to have stalled for the better part of 2,000 years in favour of a focus to apothecary and “medicine”, which throughout the ages has been a lucrative business – but nowadays is increasingly giving rise to issues of morality.
The situation is that we are now confronted with a bewildering array of compounds and substances called "drugs", to handle an equally bewildering array of increasingly problematic afflictions. Many of these drugs are of origins to which humans would ordinarily never be exposed to in quantity – and some of these consequently have serious tangential or toxic side-effects.
Experience now clearly emerging indicates that modern health practice is increasingly failing to provide true “health-care”, but is effectively only delivering “disease management”, as the modern drugs syndrome is tending to focus on symptomatic response without due regard to the underliers.
A definitive example of this relates to "homocysteine" excess; which arises soley from sub-optimal nutrition. Accumulations of homocysteine in the bloodstream not only increases the risk, but is now known to be responsible for a bouquet of up to fifty diseases, including diabetes, heart-attack, stroke, certain cancers and Alzheimer's disease.
The only known preventative and curative defence against toxic homocysteine excess is by nutritional means – not drugs.
This applies equally to the consequences of toxic bodily pH imbalance ("systemic acidosis" arising from dietary and life-style excess or deprivation) - an increasingly serious threat to sustainable health in ALL societies.
In this modern age, the human and economic cost attributable to disease is becoming increasingly unsustainable, resulting in renewed dynamisms to rank proactive orthomolecular preventative and curative practices as a priority to symptomatic medical or surgical responses alone.
In fact, the evidence for proper and therapeutic nutrtion is becoming so strong that it is increasingly probable that if the doctors of today don't correspond their medical disciplines with orthomolecular nutritional strategies, nutritionists will increasingly become the doctors of tomorrow.
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