Spiritual Roots & Earth Medicine

Re-Broadcast 

This week’s show will explore the cause of obesity. We will look at the America diet and Lifestyle as the major contributing factors. We explore the weight loss benefits of a plant base diet as well as the mind, body connection to food. We will discuss junk food, refined sugars and flours, processed food, and the over consumption of hollow carbohydrates, and high calorie foods, meat and dairy and a lack of physical activity in our society. We will also talk about the emotional-spiritual  connection to health and how we view food. Most importantly, what we eat determines how our efficiently our body performs metabolic functions.   When we examine the typical American diet, we must address the problem of processed foods.  Virtually all processed foods are loaded with refined fructose, primarily in the form of high fructose corn syrup—and in the US, most of it is genetically engineered (GE) to boot. This type of diet is a major factor in the recipe for obesity.  In addition, food manufactures have figured out how to manipulate the taste buds of the masses with salt, sugar, and fat. The obesity epidemic is a direct outgrowth of a diet of processed foods with their cheap non-nutritive fillers, artificial ingredients, and synthetic chemical additives (many of which are banned in other countries due to health effects).