For years my registered nurse wife and I have eaten healthy. What does that mean? It means when we buy groceries we read labels. If the item has any preservatives, food coloring, or strange-sounding additives we don't buy it. Part of our caution is that our family members are allergic to additives, but also it's that we believe we shouldn't eat anything unhealthy.

If we're having rice for dinner, for example, we don't buy the fancy box with all the extra gravy, sauce, or seasoning already in the box because, likely as not, those taste enhancers will have something artificial added, like coloring. We cook from scratch and it is not surprising that the taste is always superior to restaurant food.

Food should be free from additives because artificial coloring, growth hormones, and food fresheners can create cancer and other diseases.

Bob Livingston said in his article "Malnutrition and Physical Degeneration" that there are two kinds of starvation -- not getting enough food and getting the wrong food. The first is like those African kids with distended stomachs that you see in photos; the second is eating copious amounts of food, but food without nutrients, like most overweight Americans who pull themselves away from the table still hungry but thinking they're better off than Africans when they may not be.

Livingston said that "when Americans see little emaciated malnourished black African children being used by the TV media for the solicitation of funds for starving children, few of them, if any, understand starvation.

Africans don't get enough food, but Americans are beset with the more insidious malnutrition, and that is plenty of food with no nutrition."

The latter is almost at epidemic proportions in the land of the free. It is widespread and deceptive and affects almost every American -- except people like our family members who always eat healthy. Livingston believes it is the worst disaster in history and is more threatening to our national interest than an invading army.

Talk about stealth planes. This kind of starvation comes unnoticed and eats away at our collective national mentality, and no one suspects it.

When bellies are full, no one will say Americans are starving. In fact, this notion could appear to be one of the world's biggest health farks. "Americans? Starving to death?" they ask incredulously. "You gotta' be kidding. Get a life, kid, and don't come back at me until you have your facts right."

Well, we do have the facts right, but the problem is that not a lot of people -- even doctors -- may agree with my next statement, and that's too bad.

Full-belly starvation? That contradicts simple logic. That is, until we look at the exploding size and height of each generation -- and until we get a basic understanding of nutrition. By the way, most doctors take only one college course in nutrition, so their understanding of this important subject is nil to none.

"If we Americans are not eating well, then you tell me why my kids are taller and stronger than me," one man demanded. The explanation for each generation being taller and bigger than the previous one is the massive amount of growth hormones put today in beef and fowl food. Forced growth is not nutrition.

Calories, Energy, and Nutrition

The elements of human health are calories, energy and nutrition. With the American diet, we are only getting calories and energy, but there is little or no nutrition in the American diet.

There is literally an invisible famine in the land. Looking at it this way, the American civilization is a failure. It’s a commercial secret that food processors don’t want known. Our inferior diet is causing social decay and race deterioration.

Donald Laird says in his book, The Tail That Wags the Nation, that, “The country’s average level of general ability sinks lower with each generation.” In his classic work, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, Dr. Weston Price says, “The problem of the relation of physical defects to delinquency, in its various phases including major crime, constitutes one of the most alarming aspects of our modern problems in social degeneration.”

C. F. Chassell in his book, Relation Between Morality and Intellect states, “The correlation between delinquency and mental inferiority as found in the case of feeble-minded groups is clearly positive, and tends to be marked in degree.”

C. L. Burt wrote in The Young Delinquent, “There is a direct relationship between delinquency and physical degeneration.”

All this to say that there are strong indications that we are having a constant racial and mental degeneration, a progressive dumbing-down correlated with rising crime and deteriorating morality. Physical and mental degeneration is directly related to nutritional deficiency. This truth is politically taboo and you will never hear anything about it at the White House dinner table, especially with a president who eats in rich nutritional abundance and may think every American does too. He not only eats healthy, but has his own chef fly around with him to assure that he gets the kind of foods he, Michelle Obama and their children need and enjoy.

What does the future hold for Americans who want to eat well inexpensively, especially when you have "green" advocates deciding everything? Due to evnironmentalists, vital water pipelines have been shut off in Central Valley, California, which grew most of this country's vegetables, and now its a vast desert wasteland. Because minnows were dieing in those pipes, three-generation farmers have had to go out of business and we may have to import fruit and vegetables from Mexico and China, with the chance of having salmonila in our imported food.. Some 20,000 farmers are out of work and they estimate soon 80,000 farmers and supply chain people will be without jobs -- all due to a two-inch fish that the Obama Administration apparently feels is more important than the good health and nutrition of a nation of people.

Nothing is better for the health and nutrition of all of us than fresh, home-grown vegetables. Complain to your congressional leader. Let's get this travesty of justice reversed -- for the health and nutrition of 300 million people.

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