by Henrique

Created on: April 07, 2009

Modern day food the bread that is not bread, the wine that is not wine, the water that is not water, the rice that is not rice the food that bears the names given to it for millenniums but that is anything but.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

Nowadays, we assume food to be some synthetic substance created by a multinational company laboratory, carefully wrapped and put in a flashy package, that, combined with the amounts invested by companies in marketing campaigns, make the most of the product's cost.

We live in a period where "time is money" and people tend to sacrifice their health, especially through their diets, to pursue their daily routines.

In this particular subject, people tend to neglect the value of meals made from, or based on products in their most natural way possible. Products that are obtained through basic crops simple to plan and relatively inexpensive.

On another hand, natural food is a statement in favour what is pure and essential to our body. It privileges the aesthetics of authenticity, as opposed to artificial corrections and enhancements obtained through industrial processes and all its side effects.

Natural food is strongly associated with biological agriculture, being therefore, something that has been promoted since the beginnings of our existence, but that has been compromised by the flourishing of the chemical industries.

Natural food comes from the soil, it smells of manure and of naturally fermented compounds, and is not composed of residual amounts of chemicals.

Also, looking back, it is curious to notice that in past we had never spent so much time debating about diseases such as obesity, heart conditions and others.

Talking about food and nourishment may be an uncomfortable question for some. But to many, it is consensual that natural food is the key to fight illness.

Nevertheless, it is surely incompatible to support healthy habits by the main food industry entities simply because it is not profitable.

However, one who tries to keep a healthy diet for months or even years, knows that natural food is not also the most economical, but it is also a great way for one's body to create defences, resistance and balance.

Another important issue we need to address in the question of world starvation. All day we look away of the skinny faces of those who live in subhuman conditions, often talked about, but often forgotten.

But, whilst millions of human beings die due to starvation, the

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