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A heart disease patient of late
Had an IQ of 168.
His brain was immense
But it lacked common sense
And it never engaged when he ate.- by the Health Ranger
As an observer of human behavior, one of the most fascinating things I've ever witnessed is really smart people dying of diseases that are easily preventable through basic nutrition (vitamin D, plant juices, targeted supplements, superfoods, etc.). I know doctors dying of cancer who take chemotherapy over vitamin D
supplements. I know members of MENSA who are killing themselves with
junk foods and diabetes. I know extremely intelligent attorneys and physicists who are among the smartest people in their respective fields; but when it comes to basic
health, they're completely ignorant.
In fact, if you look around at all the "smart" people you know, you're likely to find the vast majority of them are incredibly ignorant when it comes to their own health. They know nothing about basic nutrition, the benefits of
superfoods or the dangers of
pharmaceuticals. They eat processed junk foods, dairy
products and food products contaminated with pesticides and toxic
chemicals. They may be the smartest people in the world in their labs or offices, but when it comes to their own bodies, they are among the most ignorant people on the planet.
How can this be?
How can such high-IQ people remain so utterly ignorant when it comes to their own health?
There are two reasons, it turns out. And one of them will blow your mind...
How to become an expert in one area while abandoning the basics
To be an expert in astrophysics, you have to spend many years studying astrophysics. To get really good at law, you have to study law. If you want to get good at anything, you have to focus on it, learn about it, and invest some time
learning how it works.
That's what I've done with the subject of health and
nutrition (and you too, probably). And yet I'm not an expert in astrophysics, nor law, nor
brain surgery. Importantly,
I don't have to be an expert in those areas because I don't practice in those areas.
And yet -- here's the important part -- all those physicists, attorneys and surgeons do have a physical
body they need to take care of. They all need to become proficient in basic human health, regardless of whatever other specialties they might pursue.
In other words,
everyone with a body needs to learn the basics of taking care of that body. And yet most of the smartest people in the world today have spent essentially zero time learning about human health. So even with their high IQs, they make childish, ignorant decisions when it comes to their own health. They may be doctorate-level academic thinkers in their own fields, but when it comes to protecting health and preventing
disease, these people haven't even graduated from kindergarten yet.
You see this quite frequently in the geek community, by the way. Junk
food, pharmaceuticals and caffeinated soda drinks seem to go hand-in-hand with the wired, pale and frenzied computer brainiacs who are, after all, smarter than everybody else. They can write DRM decryption code with one hand while they eat MSG-laden fried snack chips with the other. Like everybody else, they are high-IQ, highly-specialized experts in their fields who remain woefully uneducated when it comes to their own health.
But how can so many smart people be so utterly unaware of the basics of nutrition? That vitamin D prevents cancer and influenza? That aspartame kills your brain cells? That processed
meat (beef jerky, bacon, sausage, pepperoni) contains cancer-causing coloring chemicals designed to make the meat look rosy fresh?
The real reason is more insidious than you may have imagined. If you want to learn it, read on...
Good health is bad for business
Here's the real reason why so many smart people remain so uninformed when it comes to their own health:
The institutions of power in our modern world go out of their way to keep people nutritionally ignorant.By "institutions of power," I mean our governments, our private industries (health care and others) and the corporations that pull all the strings behind the curtains.
What are the most powerful corporations in our world? Aside from the military bombs-and-bullets
companies (who have their own scams
running), the most powerful corporations are
drug companies,
media companies,
agriculture companies and
food & beverage companies.
Now think about this clearly for a minute: What do all these companies have in common? How do all these companies keep their economic machines running?
The answer is:
Nutritional ignorance of the masses.
You see, the agriculture companies depend on nutritional ignorance in order to keep selling their processed ingredients to food companies which then turn around and sell those nutritionally-depleted products to consumers. Media companies depend on the advertising revenues from the promotion of junk
foods and junk beverages, and drug companies depend on the revenues from all the diseases caused by the widespread consumption of all those products.
These four industries -- Big Pharma, Big Ag, Big Media and Big Food -- have a dark, incestuous relationship that generates huge
profits... but only as long as the masses remain nutritionally ignorant.
If people became proficient in nutrition, superfoods, vitamin D and
natural foods,
all four of these industries would suffer huge financial losses. Their sales and profits would plummet in a world where nutrition is common knowledge. Their continued financial success
requires nutritional ignorance among the masses.
(This article continues tomorrow in part two, here on NaturalNews.com)
About the author: Mike Adams is a natural health researcher, author and award-winning journalist with a mission to teach personal and planetary health to the public He has authored and published thousands of articles, interviews, consumers guides, and books on topics like health and the environment, reaching millions of readers with information that is saving lives and improving personal health around the world. Adams is an honest, independent journalist and accepts no money or commissions on the third-party products he writes about or the companies he promotes. In 2010, Adams launched NaturalNews.TV, a natural health video site featuring videos on holistic health and green living. He also founded an environmentally-friendly online retailer called BetterLifeGoods.com that uses retail profits to help support consumer advocacy programs. He's also a veteran of the software technology industry, having founded a personalized mass email software product used to deliver email newsletters to subscribers. Adams also serves as the executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center, a non-profit consumer protection group, and practices nature photography, Capoeira, martial arts and organic gardening.
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