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   It's all very simple; maybe that's why we've been so confused. Let's break it down to the elements. Your body is a natural eco-system. The body is part and parcel of a larger natural eco-system (the earth and it's environment). When you put natural fuels into your personal eco-system then your body is going to run smoother, faster and cleaner. It follows that the foods we put into our personal eco-system should be as close to their uncorrupted, naturally existing state for easiest absorption and utilization.

   Food is just a fuel source to power your body and brain. Put something unnatural into it (synthetic and or processed into such a state as could never exist in nature... Even cooking is nutritionally detrimental and chemically corruptive to most foods).

  The more we remove foods from their natural, "alive" states, the more side effects we get from ingesting them. Those side effects develop into serious diseases with repetitive of ingestions over time as the body's natural state of equilibrium is continuously disrupted. Examples of dietary side effects are indigestion, heartburn, weight gain, certain cancers, cardiovascular, epidermal, and muscular disease. Etc.).

    In order to get more insight, imagine yourself in your body's place. You are a natural, self-contained eco-system. A foreign agent enters; let's say it's a sour cream & onion potato chip (one of my favorites in my former, less healthy-less happy life). Among several other synthetic chemicals, they contain hydrogenated oil. Your body is not acquainted with this artificial molecule. In essence it is forced into a situation of "What the hell is that and what am I supposed to do with it?" Your body reacts, often first trying to jettison what it can't assimilate (i.e. sweating out the toxins through the skin, passing them through the intestines, carrying them through the blood and lymph fluids, etc).

  Each bodily process of rejection also has reactions; (that zit you buy all those products to eliminate, bad breath and other body odors, etc. etc., etc.) Years of repeated ingestion of elements that cannot be assimilated or completely rejected lead to more serious bodily reactions. Non-assimilated and indigestible elements continually passing through and getting caught within the intestines are a possible cause of cancers here. The same applies to elements being passed off to the kidneys, blood, and lymph fluids; possible causes of cancers in those systems and heart disease.

   Now lets relate the microcosm of the human body eco-system to the macrocosm of the eco-system of the planet earth. This simple relation forms a way for us to understand that eating what’s right for our body is also right for the planet... This forms the basis of my "Personal Health Conscious Diet is the Environmentally Conscious Diet" argument. I believe that this argument, among other things, helps to show that the natural universe makes sense. It is only we humans that ultimately cause our own problems by acting like spoiled children and not playing by its rules.

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