Organic Hype

I have read studies to indicate that all this hoopla about pesticides is just that, hoopla. My father lived in a time when there were no restrictions on pesticides, they used them too, he lived to be 90 years old and so did many of our relatives. They didn't eat any healthier than we do, except they couldn't afford eating out all the time.

They ate white bread, pasta, pie, jam with large amounts of white sugar in it, they loved pie and many other things that we would consider unhealthy today. 

My family were not people who exercise either, their jobs didn't provide any more exercise than normal day to day work. The most recent studies show that running is very bad for us and can shorten one's life. It makes sense that if we beat up our bodies regularly, it is constantly trying to heal from the abuse, it would cause a strain on all the body systems. The greatest threat to our hearts is stress, which includes life problems and physical exertion.

The natural food industry is laughing all the way to the bank as is the exercise equipment industry, the food is no healthier and it is not completely pesticide free. Exercise is proving to damage the body long term. It's all the end times "worship nature and the body", natural hype. I know I will not convince this generation, and that's alright, there are more important things to argue over, eating the "natural food", won't hurt anyone, except put a crimp in the pocket book and keep people in a constant state of worry that can damage their heart.

Jeremiah 17:7-8
7 “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord,
whose trust is the Lord.
8 He is like a tree planted by water,
that sends out its roots by the stream,
and does not fear when heat comes,
for its leaves remain green,
and is not anxious in the year of drought,
for it does not cease to bear fruit.”

Proverbs 10:27
"The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened."

I don't see anything here in the above passages about the food we eat, it is trusting God that lengthens a person’s life, not the food we eat.

Matthew 15:11 ""It is not what enters into the mouth that defiles the man, but what proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man."

I just have to expose the deception of the natural food craze. If the "natural food" industry can convince people all other food is bad, they can charge higher prices and they are doing that, while building a stronger market of people addicted to their food labeled "natural." 

All the "proof" I see is not from people who actually did the testing themselves, but from the "natural food" industry, they have a lot to gain by addicting their customers to the idea that they are in danger from eating anything but the food they produce.

We were told for years that coffee, butter and eggs were all bad for us, now that is all being retracted by the younger scientists coming up who have gone a little deeper in their research.

Just reading articles on the internet and listening to those who have been convinced by the hype is not a good way to get our information. There is no such thing as perfect food that will alleviate all illness.

The new bacon scare, is nothing short of ridiculous. They say that there is a 1% greater chance of bacon being harmful. Notice the "chance" word! The original chance was 5% and now it is 6%. The idea that bacon is as bad as smoking is ludicrous. Then they say 5 pieces of bacon a day is alright, I personally don't know of anyone who eats that much bacon that would be 35 pieces a week. 

We get illness because God ordained that we have it, perhaps to cause us to turn our eyes to Him. Many believers are turning their eyes to extreme nutrition that is not based on good science, trusting in those foods, when they aren't any better than the food we have had all along.

The natural food craze is a part of the end time’s deception, designed to make people continually paranoid about what they eat while placing their trust in the food rather than God. Notice too it creates an attitude of ungratefulness for what God has provided. 

I know people who buy special solutions to soak their vegetables to remove pesticides that are easily removed by running water over them. I once asked a dentist if the "Plax" brand of mouth rinse did any good in removing plaque on a person’s teeth. He laughed and said it will do as much good as water, in short, it has no value at all and one spends money on the "Plax", when water from the tap would do the same thing. This is just one example of advertising run amuck. This is also an example of the way the "natural" food industry has manipulated many people into believing they need their product, while charging silly prices for it.

In the churches I have been in, during the coffee hour, there was a lot of time spent talking about the food that they thought was healthy along with discussions and excitement about the ball games, God was rarely mentioned at all. What we talk about most of the time is what we treasure. Perhaps there is some pride involved in thinking we know so much and can mix with the world on this matter of "natural." 

Luke 12:34 "For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."

If the "natural" craze were not popular, I wonder how many people would involve themselves with it? Often when something is widespread and popular it is because an industry is marketing it heavily while putting out bogus information to earn massive amounts of money. 

I don't believe the studies put out by the "natural foods" industry, nor do I believe the studies that claim we need supplements. If we are seriously ill then we need to have blood work done to check our levels, based on true science, then we may need iron or some other vitamin or mineral that our body is lacking, but based on levels of it in our blood. 

Far too many people are taking massive amounts of vitamins, spending hundreds if not thousands of dollars a year on vitamins their body doesn't need, and perhaps even causing illness from overdose. I have known two people in my lifetime who became very ill from taking too many supplements without checking with a doctor to see if there was a need, one of those people died from an overdose. YES, you can kill yourself, destroy kidney and liver over too many vitamins. 

When we place our trust in the "natural food" industry without praying about it, we put ourselves through stress and worry over nothing. They have lied to this culture. I notice too that the secular community was the entity that introduced all this hype and the Christians hopped on board. 

Perhaps it's time for believers to ask the Lord to open their eyes to this last day’s deception of worship of the physical body.