Health on the Hill: A Conspiracy of Malnutrition

Going to a medical doctor for a chronic illness is like asking a blind person to help you cross a busy street.

(Commentary)

During a recent online Health Show hosted by the Natural Health Product Protection Association (NHPPA), I was forced to look in a new way at how awful our food regulation is.

Health Canada and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) have complete control over our food supply, and we have all made the mistake of trusting them.  It's a mistake because under their “protection” our food supply has become much more toxic and yet the population is not rising up in arms.

All of us carry a toxic load from our food and environment, even if we are eating organic.  For example, everyone reading this has glyphosate in their body.  Glyphosate is an extremely dangerous chemical used as a pesticide on a broad range of crops.  Because of this toxic load none of us likely knows what it is like to feel completely healthy.

Under the “protection” of Health Canada and the CFIA the nutrient content of our food supply has steadily declined.  Even if you are eating “right” you can no longer get the full complement of nutrients you need from your food to achieve optimal wellness.   The U.S. Department of Agriculture regularly checks the food supply for nutrients.  They have documented a steady decline.  We are long past the point where we can get the all the nutrients we need to stay healthy from our food.

We have all heard that we need nutrition to be healthy, yet we need to start thinking about this in a different way.  It’s about understanding the true consequences of not getting proper nutrition.  In short, Canadians have become chronically malnourished.

A few weeks ago, Udo Erasmus spoke at the Vancouver NHPPA Health Show about the essential nutrients that humans need.  If we are missing a single one of these nutrients, we cannot survive.  Before that we become sick.

I have come to believe that almost all of our chronic illness is caused by toxins and lack of nutrition in our food supply.  So proper nutrition is the single most important factor in our health.  Yet the high priests of medicine, the doctors we dutifully go to, are not trained in nutrition.  In other words, most medical doctors are deliberately not educated on the single most important factor in our health.  So expecting a medical doctor to successfully treat chronic illness is like asking a blind person to help you cross a busy street.

To make matters worse, Health Canada has made it a criminal offence for consumers to be given the nutrition needed for optimal wellness.  Health Canada does have a list of “Recommended Daily Allowances” (RDAs) for vital nutrients, but research has found that these “Allowances” are insufficient to support human health.

In other words, if we follow Health Canada’s allowances of nutrients we can become ill. Yet manufacturers are not allowed to sell you vital nutrients in dosages that exceed the RDA set by Health Canada.  The manufacturer will be attacked, and if necessary fined and jailed, for trying to provide you with nutrients in the amounts that might be needed to support health.

In my opinion the actions of Health Canada have long passed from civil negligence and are now into criminal recklessness.  At the World’s Greatest Health Show, which is now online at www.nhppa.org speaker after speaker shared their feelings about the importance of proper nutrition.  Canadian after Canadian shared stories about how they were chronically ill and suffering under their medical doctor’s care until they came across nutrition and natural remedies.  It was heartbreaking to hear.

The stories all ended with successful outcomes of people overcoming health challenges, but they remind us of how many Canadians are needlessly suffering trapped in the medical system.