If there is one thing more of us living in the modern western world could use, it’s a few more definitive digestive health guidelines. Depending on a family health practitioner is too often unhelpful as far as getting advise and real care as it pertains to natural and nutritional health.
Western medicine deals almost exclusively with prescribing pharmaceutical drugs to help treat problems and symptoms as we get them, and not in their prevention and cure.The preceding statement makes sense when we consider how far we’ve come with our technology, and still today there are more dangerous and new diseases than ever before in history.
Governments have laid out a few digestive health guidelines but have failed us with such things as allowing unhealthy and dangerous man-made substances into our commercially available foods. Food manufacturers are allowed to use trans fats from hydrogenated oils when it’s been proven a long time ago that these cause so many problems and health risks for everyone who has a long time association with a processed food diet.
Hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated oils have been banned in most Europe countries and those that are still doing it are facing a date in the future that will eliminate these oils from being used in food manufacturing.
The processed foods we all eat daily are causing serious health problems in the United States because these food companies are allowed to get away with these dangerous practices. What are these health risks?
obesity
diabetes
cancer
heart disease
These unhealthy fats increase your cholesterol which is dangerous for your heart. Not to mention hardening your arteries and clogging your liver.
The FDA has allowed food companies to list an amount of zero trans fats in any product that contains 0.5 %. This seems a small amount but if you eat multiple of these products a day, which many still do, then it can add up to unacceptable levels. It’s obvious where the interests of the FDA lie.
We always read that “more studies are needed to arrive at a positive conclusion” or something to that effect. Sure, keep the studies going but meanwhile it’s our diet that is deteriorating our health.
What can we do to improve our digestive health guidelines?
Start eliminating those processed foods from your daily life. One at a time, while replacing it with a more natural and therefor more protein-rich version. That’s the other problem with processed foods; they are processed with chemicals to make them have a longer shelf life, but it’s this process that kills many of the food’s nutrients. Over time, disorders and disease start to appear because of things like dietary fiber and digestive enzyme deficiencies.