“Sorry for the long rambling rant but I find the whole, “we lived better back before the modern age” pretty much a fallacy and an ignorance of historical facts in many cases.”
Yet you use an example of modern factory farming to present your case.
The food corporations are seeking to control all means of production and they are making great progress. They are using safety and ‘for the chilldrunn’ as their primary lever but also economic controls. Where they can’t force out small farmers economically they use the government to pass laws and regulations which only the big companies can meet.
Yes there have been advances in food safety which have saved many lives. This has largely been co-opted into a means of control, which is a progressive idea.
Proper diet is essential to meeting the bodies needs. This in turn is critical for avoiding and even curing many diseases. To think you can reduce it to 4 elements is simply ignorant. Keep your body strong and you can reduce the need for antibiotics and other medicines which will not be available after TSHTF.
No I didn’t. Go back and read my post again. The example I used to present my case was the antithesis of a modern factory farm – it was a small old fashioned family farm and presumably “organic”.
Proper diet is essential to meeting the bodies needs. This in turn is critical for avoiding and even curing many diseases. To think you can reduce it to 4 elements is simply ignorant. Keep your body strong and you can reduce the need for antibiotics and other medicines which will not be available after TSHTF.
I absolutely agree with you that eating a wholesome balanced diet, a diet rich in a wide variety of lots of fresh vegetables, fresh fruits, whole grains and lean meats along with getting regular moderate to vigorous exercise, not smoking, drinking if at all only in moderation and staying fit overall, can help reduce one’s chances of getting sick, help that person deal and combat certain diseases or recover more quickly or help them to some extent from developing certain diseases; diabetes, heart disease and HBP especially but not always necessarily.
Take a look at that young woman from GA who lost both her hands and one foot to a flesh eating bacterial infection. She was young, healthy and physically fit and yet, and ironically BTW given she was injured and became infected while doing something (swimming/zip lining) that most people who are not fit and overall healthy, probably wouldn’t be doing, she would have died had it not been for antibiotics.
Some diseases are genetic in nature and some diseases like cancer effect people of all ages, overall health and fitness level. Heck, there have been a good number of instances of marathon runners and other elite athletes dropping dead from heart attacks or succumbing to cancer (and no, I’m not including those who may or may not have used steroids).
The idea that you can, if you simply reduce it down to eating well and exercising regularly, that this alone will somehow make you immune from disease or that you won’t, if you are overall healthy and fit never need an anti-biotic if infected with a bacterial microbe, is simply ignorant and not supported by the scientific realities of disease processes and how our actual bodies work.