You don’t become old and wise without first being young and dumb. If I had to do it over again, I would have become a farmer. In fact, many of us are only a few generations off a farm. America was initially settled by yeoman farmers, artisans and philosophers.
And then came the industrial revolution, mass production, factory workers, and the wave of immigration, the poor, tired and hungry, looking for work, mostly ‘off the farm.’ City life seemed like to be the place to be, the sprawling interstates, suburbia, and the congestion and psychological assault of city life.
Ultimately, however, your health is your wealth. If you do not have your health, either mentally, or physiclly, you really have nothing at all. So where does health orginate? It orginates with clean water, oragnic, whole, nutrient dense food (ones that God made), sunshine, and vigorous activity.
I read a book once, where the protagonist, back in the 1800’s, was ‘not feeling too well.’ He had gone to his Physician, at the time, and he had recommended, ‘vigorous outdoor activity and travel.’ Today, the patient would have gone home with a new Prescription™.
The protagonist did just that, felt much better, and later became a famous General during the War of Northern Aggression. The two worst inventions ever made by man were the Television and the Lazy Boy. I have seen this, in my practice, for over 25 years. Western life has provided us many creature comforts, but has made us soft and diseased.
There are two types of patients, many repeat offenders, frequent flyers, ‘taters’ and ‘smokin’ tatters.’ Outside some weird genetic disorder, the Chronic diseases that plaque America, are due to the lack of the aforementioned ingredients, listed above for good health.
A good majority of us would not be here today if it were not for antibiotics. I am included in that list. When I was a child, I was fairly sickly. Colds turned to pneumonia, and I was hospitlized a few times. Included, during my childhood, would be also chickenpox, strep throat, rashes, tick and mosquito bites, etc.
It’s not hard to tour through old grave yards and realize, that back in the day, you were married at 16, dead at 45, and lucky to have had children live past 7. Life was tough back then, without modern plumbing, super markets, ones full of citrus fruits and other nutritional sources, year-round.
When you sneezed at the dinner table, people would say ‘bless you,’ because they knew that a virus could take you out, by the subsequent pneumonia, which is still often the case with cold and flu today.
Back then families prayed over the dinner table and gave thanks for the foods that nourished their bodies. Today, in our modern, fast paced lives, folks just plop down in from of the Television, with pizza delivery, with no mention of God or Thankfulness.
Modernity is what it is. As a young man, I could not wait to go off to the big city. There were lights, skyscrapers, nightclubs, airports, trains, interstates, and plenty of trouble to get into. In retrospect, I wish I had studied agriculture and become a small organic farmer. We need more of those.
What America needs most is an Organic, Sound Money Revolution.