🌿Waging War on Our Body
There is so much more to nourishing your body than chasing numbers on a label. Calories don’t tell you whether a food strengthens your cells, supports your hormones, or feeds your microbiome. Carbs don’t tell you whether a food is life‑giving or lifeless. You can eat “low‑calorie” or “low‑carb” all day long and still starve your body of the nutrients it was designed to thrive on.
Just Eat Real Food
This should be our matra.
The Standard American Diet—SAD in every sense—is built on foods that look filling but leave the body empty: starchy fillers, refined sugars, factory‑made snacks, processed meats, and chemical‑laden convenience foods. They quiet hunger for a moment but never nourish the deeper systems that keep us well.
🌱 What Is Real Food?
Real food is food that still resembles the way God and nature created it. It’s food that hasn’t been broken apart, bleached, dyed, stretched, or chemically reshaped. Real food is the ingredient list itself—simple, whole, recognizable.
⚠️ Why Processed Foods Work Against the Body
The problem with processed foods isn’t just what they contain—it’s what they don’t contain. They lack the minerals, enzymes, antioxidants, and living compounds your body depends on for repair and resilience.
Many processed foods are built from:
chemically altered additives
artificial colors and flavors
synthetic sweeteners
stabilizers and emulsifiers
genetically manipulated ingredients
preservatives designed for shelf life, not human life
These compounds are foreign to the body’s natural design. They burden detox pathways, disrupt cellular communication, and interfere with the body’s ability to maintain balance.
Read labels. Every label.
When you begin reading labels, you’ll notice the same industrial ingredients showing up again and again—ingredients that don’t belong in a human body.
The list below is from Waking Times in an article called The Reality of Chemical Terrorism in Our Food.
Artificial Flavors and Colors
Artificial flavors and colors are made from a chemical derived in a lab with no nutritional value. They have a detrimental effect on health, including neurotoxicity, organ, developmental and reproductive toxicity and cancer.
Examples
Glutamates
MSG (monosodium glutamate)
Maltodextrin
Blue 1, Blue 2
Yellow 5, Yellow 6
Red 3, Red 40
Genetically modified foods are known to cause allergies, organ damage, cancer, immunotoxicity and damaging transgenes that affect generations to come.
Examples
Corn flour, corn meal, corn oil, corn syrup, corn gluten
Corn sweeteners such as dextrose, fructose and glucose
Modified food starch
Soy flour, soy lecithin, soy protein, soy isolate, soy isoflavone
Most vegetable oils and vegetable proteins
Canola oil (aka rapeseed oil)
Cottonseed oil
Anything not listed as 100% cane sugar
Toxic Preservatives
Artificial preservatives are responsible for health problems involving the respiratory tract, heart, blood and other systems of the body. Some preservatives are very neurotoxic especially when combined with particular nutrients.
Examples
Antimicrobials
Sodium nitrates
Sodium nitrites
BHA
BHT
Sulfites
Potassium Sorbate
Benzoic Acid
Propyl Gallate
Sodium Benzoate
Toxic Emulsifiers
An emulsifier replaces surface protein and helps in forming the
network in specific food recipes. There are NO healthy, non-organic emulsifiers. They are ALL toxic causing infertility, digestive disorders and migraines.
Examples
Polysorbate 80
Mono-diglycerides
Carrageenan
Xanthan gum (non-organic)
Soy Lecithin or soya lecithin
Toxic Sweeteners
Sweeteners such as Neotame are thousands of times sweeter than sugar. They are all very potent, neurotoxic, immunotoxic and excitotoxic.
Examples
Aspartame
High fructose corn syrup
Neotame
Sucralose
Sodium cyclamate
Acesulfame potassium or acesulfame-K
Toxic Adulterants
Food fraud and economically motivated food adulteration is highlighted by some very toxic substances which cause cancer, glaucoma, digestive and liver disorders. These are added to foods to increase their color, volume or weight.
Examples
Metanil Yellow
Potassium bromate
Malachite green
Tamarind seeds
Washing powder
Argemone seeds
When you remove foods that burden the body and replace them with foods that nourish the body, you create space for healing. Real, organic, non‑GMO, whole foods support the systems that restore balance—digestion, detoxification, hormones, immunity, and cellular repair.
Your body is always trying to heal. Your food can either support that process or fight against it.
We only get one body. Why wage war on it when we can nourish it instead?
Resources
Hovis, B. S. (n.d.). Nutrition and Food. Retrieved April 20, 2020, from https://trinityschool.instructure.com/courses/499/pages/week-1-lecture-1-nutrition-and-food
Acesulfame Potassium. (n.d.). Retrieved April 20, 2020, from https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/acesulfame-potassium
Torres, M. (2016, June 18). The Reality of Chemical Terrorism In Our Food. Retrieved April 20, 2020, from https://www.wakingtimes.com/2013/05/20/the-reality-of-chemical-terrorism-in-our-food/
Group, E. (2014, November 14). The 6 Most Dangerous Excitotoxins. Retrieved April 20, 2020, from https://globalhealing.com/natural-health/6-dangerous-excitotoxins/
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