Gluten

[Valarya]

Just because someone is trying something new to better her health doesn't mean she's listens to "everything the food experts say."

If I were to fully go in to it I might even sound like a bit of a conspiracy theorist. All I know is this: The bread and meat and other food we eat today (at least in the states) is completely different from any food stuffs people lived on 100+ years ago and beyond.

All of our food is processed and drowned in chemicals. Evil giants like Monsanto genetically alter the chemical makeup of VEGETABLES, even... so when you think you're eating healthy, you aren't. Farmers have come out and admitted that Roundup (a weed killer) is allowed to be used on fields and ends up being taken up in to the plants. When I say farmers, I'm not talking about your average Joe who has some acres and plants a crop for his own livelihood, per se. I'm talking about the thousands of farmers that are owned by companies like Monsanto and other giant corporations. Genetically altered grains and vegetables. Yum.

I won't even go in to the way animals are mass-produced so that people can have theri 3-4 servings of meat per day. Hundreds of years ago meat was seen as a "treat" and definitely wasn't eaten every day by the general population. I just sit around and think about the chemicals being injected in all our food and it makes me sick wondering what we're doing to ourselves. Well, I don't have to wonder. Diabetes. Heart Disease. Cancer. Three things which have increased GREATLY in the past 60 years and it can all be traced back to the shitty things we put in our bodies. And wait, by 'shitty' I don't mean just High Fructose Corn Syrup that is in EVERYTHING... or sugars, period. I'm talking about hydrogenated oils that aren't cold-pressed and have their genetic makeup altered and are in EVERYTHING. Natural water-ways being polluted by the factories making plastic. And oh gods when I start thinking about those factories it just gets worse.

Then I don't even think about food. I think about those super-toxins we put on everything to make it easier to manufacture. Neuro-toxins like flame-retardents that we freaking dip our pillows in to keep them safe.. then we lay our HEADS on them!

Technology in the medical field might mean we have longer life-spans now than we ever have before... but imagine how much longer they could be if we didn't dump all this horrible shit in our bodies every day. Unfortunately, in the world we have created, you can't get away from them. My computer, monitor, keyboard & mouse all have toxins in them. My clothes. The air I breathe.

So I try not to think about it TOO much.. I try not to panic. I just help my body out in any tiny way I can.. and that's by eating/supporting local farmers & produce. Eating organic as often as I can afford it.. and trying not to put too many chemicals in or around my body. I use natural shampoos and soaps and my pillow hasn't been dipped in flame retardant.

--------- Well. I am laid back and chill IRL and if you met me you would never suspect I felt the way I did about all of the above. I don't preach it or talk about it often at all.. because I like to enjoy this life as much as possible. But I warned you it would sound conspiracy-theory crazy, hahah.