Modern-day Americans have gotten off track when it comes to what they eat, and more important why they eat it. Eating is more important than just sticking foods in your mouth and swallowing. There are important reasons to choose the right foods that will nourish your body. Due to the fact that the human body is basically a chemistry set that is made up of vitamins, minerals, amino acids, fiber, magnesium, potassium, and a whole array of other natural stuff, one needs to eat the proper foods that contain these substances.
I’m a redneck farm kid from Iowa and back in my day we ate totally different than folks do today. For one thing we had our own gardens. We didn’t run to the grocery store to buy things that came in cellophane packages, boxes and cans. We raised our own food and mom and Grandma would dry certain foods down in the root cellar, or can other foods in glass jars, without the preservatives and additives that are used in packaged and canned foods nowadays. They also baked all of the bread and rolls, (I can still smell it now…) and nothing was deep fried.
We had our own fruit trees and grapevines. We grew strawberries and red currants, apples, white walnuts, watermelon, cantaloupe, and a variety of berries. Every spring my grandmother would make up a big vat of homemade sauerkraut, and another vat of homemade root beer, made with real roots! We consumed these as a form of internal house cleaning, the same way you did spring housecleaning on your house.
The things we ate contained all of the important nutrients that our bodies needed to be healthy. I grew up with a lot of other kids and I don’t remember any of us being sick all the time like kids are today. We were all thin and healthy from playing outdoors and eating the types of foods Mother Nature intended us to eat. There are major differences in the early days and what is going on today. Today folks eat man-made foods filled with preservatives and additives and food colorings and dyes and all kinds of nonsense. In my day we ate foods straight from the gardens and trees.
Other cultures around the world eat the way I did when I was growing up. It’s only modern-day Americans that eat all of the man-made foodstuffs that make them overweight and sick. (And you want the government to be responsible for your health???)
