Imagine, if you will, a great hallway, freshly painted and without clutter. You are able to walk through it with ease, nothing impedes your movement. Now imagine someone puts a pile of old newspapers on the side of the hall. You are still able to pass with ease, yet you do have to take care of that pile. Then useless cardboard boxes are thrown into the hallway, old toys, random garbage begins to gather, the piles of newspaper get so high that you have to squeeze through and it becomes stressful to pass through it. And as you carefully step over those items that you should have thrown out years ago, you start to wonder, “how did this get so bad?”
This is the closest representation to our colon that I can think of. When we are born, our colons are pristine, lacking even the good bacteria that we will need to have for optimal health and nourishment. As years go by, and our bad dietary habits take effect, the layers of waste begin to accumulate in the colon. Years of gummy buildup from corn syrup, sugars, starches, white bleached flour, preservatives, these are all colon culprits. They remain sticking to the colonic walls, disturbingly resilient and long lasting. Resilient and long lasting are things you would seek in a car, in a screwdriver, but not in foods. Did you know that researchers discovered that store bought white bread can be some of the stickiest items for your colon to pass, taking up to FOUR times longer than whole grain breads? And this is our main problem being faced today primarily in the USA and the UK. There has been such a focus on creating foods that have long shelf life, far longer than necessary, and unfortunately for our bodies, these chemicals are very effective. White bread, such as Wonderbread is an easy target, and has had years of abuse at the hands of the Atkins diet already, however, a naturally made piece of bread would not, and should not last for a month or more on a store shelf. These perishable foods have become wax statues, essentially clay made of corn syrup, bleached flour, and glutens. These methods are not old by any means. The advances in keeping food preserved has been ongoing throughout our history, but only in recent history, since World War II, have we made these tremendous leaps of shelf life in terms of food. What was borne of necessity, unfortunately, has been adapted as our day to day food regimen. In my next post, we will look at why this is far from the healthiest form of nourishment that we can experience, and what the French do differently that lends to explaining the “French Paradox.”
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