by T. S. Love

Created on: May 12, 2007

A blind man, a man with one leg, and a soccer mom walk into a bar. They bet the bartender a drink if he can correctly guess which of them is diabetic. The punch line is that they all are and what sounds like a bad joke is actually my family. We are fat and we are sick. This is my future and that of millions of Americans unless we completely change the way we think about food.

It is time to face the facts. We the people of the world's most prosperous nation are quickly becoming the unhealthiest. Our very prosperity has led to our downfall. Today there are endless options in food selection, more than at any point in human history. Manufacturers churn out pre-processed foods in the name of liberty, variety and convenience but in truth they are peddlers of poison, giving us each day our daily white bread. The body has no use for substances such as refined white sugar and bleached white flour yet these two substances are endemic to our food supply.

The problem is almost too big to believe. How can our entire food supply be wrong? Everyone knows that the way to health is proper diet and exercise. Yet what exactly is proper diet? The only thing the experts can all agree on is to eat more whole grains, fresh fruits, and vegetables and less processed foods. This advice sometimes feeds the belief that increasing the amount of good stuff one eats can somehow make up for all the junk consumed. This is the holy grail of the food and pharmaceutical industries: to find a pill that provides perfect nutrition so we may gorge ourselves on all the swill modern science is capable of creating under the guise of foodstuffs.

Society is preoccupied with cures, pills, and surgery. Prevention and nutrition are low on its list of priorities. Conversely, what if it were possible to avoid all the potions, pills, and poking by simply feeding the body just what it needs to heal itself and nothing else? We forget that the body is a self-healing mechanism. Our duty is to give it the proper fuel it needs to perform the job. All necessary vitamins and nutrients for health and vitality come from living foods: plants and animals. In theory, most items in supermarkets and restaurants originated from a living food. In reality, often the heavily processed gunk most of us think of as "food" today is a far remove both chemically and nutritionally from once living and nutritious whole foods.

Months of research for specific answers on how and when to eat produced a discovery: trophology. Trophology, a branch

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