Reasons to Garden
Processed Food, Pharmaceuticals
Contribute To Declining Health
In the United States, our modern society is so preoccupied and overwhelmed with every day activities of living we have lost contact with what is important. Have you ever contemplated the miracle of the human body functioning in harmony with lungs breathing, heart beating, senses sensing, muscles moving, healing and regenerating itself? Few have the time to think about this until problems develop.
Up until recently people believed each subsequent generation
entering into its retirement years would be in better physical shape
than the preceding generation. Then in March 2007, Health and
Retirement Study research published by the
nonprofit National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and supported by
the National Institute on Aging (NIA), a component of the National
Institutes of Health (NIH), revealed the disturbing trend of Americans
in their early to mid-50s reporting poorer 
health, more pain, and more
trouble doing every day physical tasks than their older peers
reported
when they were the same age in recent years.
How can American pre-retirees be reaching retirement age in not as good health as their predecessors? Regrettably, the public is not educated enough about how our food and medical systems work together to keep us ill, thereby making money for themselves at our expense. Undesirable ingredients used in processed foods are part of the reason toward declining health in America. Disappointingly, the pharmaceuticals the medical system uses are no longer fully tested and many times contribute to further health decline instead of curing us while they become wealthy at our expense.
Earlier analyses, including an NIA-supported study suggests
America’s obesity epidemic, which is contributing to higher
rates of:
diabetes,
heart
disease, and
hypertension,
could be
threatening the decline of our health. Furthermore, some of the
today’s common diseases didn’t even exist 40 years
ago. In this same time frame, we have made enormous advances in medical
technology: we have more doctors, more pharmaceutical drugs, and more
hospitals. In conclusion, all we have to show for all this is the
sickliest generation of Americans in history with ever increasing
disease rates.
© Debby Bolen
