Cereal Killers - a podcast by Chef Wendell Fowler/Allan Haw

Live Right Now - Episode 004 – Cereal Killers

Hippocrates, The Father of Medicine declared, “Let thy food be thy medicine, and thy medicine shall be thy food.” Einstein predicted, “The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.” What’s happened?

If you studied the history of the Industrial Revolution and Rockefeller, then you know an unconscionable decision was made to use manmade petroleum-based drugs rather than allowing nature to prevent disease: an ugly divorce from God’s perfect pharmacy. But trusting Americans fell for it hook, line, and sinker. Before then, man’s pharmacy was sourced from plant medicines. Your daily life and wellbeing depends on plants: the backbone of all life on Earth and an indispensable resource for mankind.

However, it’s turned out to be a disastrous, money-centric decision as lives and dreams were and are destroyed while chronic disease rates soar unchecked into the 21st Century. Knowing how to hunt and forage, start a campfire and cook is a basic, primal human skill essential for survival. Otherwise you are handing your health to a corporation who couldn’t possibly care less.

Back to the future: The World Health Organization states, "The use of herbal medicines and phytonutrients or nutraceuticals continues to expand rapidly across the world with many people now resorting to these products for treatment of various health challenges. The use of herbal medicinal products and supplements has increased tremendously over the past three decades with not less than 80% of people worldwide relying on them for some part of primary healthcare.” What is it they know that we do not?

The use of plant medicines to heal or combat illness is as old as civilization.  We receive a bountiful rainbow of gifts from God’s plants, most of them beneficial for our health and absolutely crucial to mind, body, and spiritual existence. Alas, two or three previous convenience-addicted generations became a little “I love you lazy”, nuked lifeless food in unholy, destructive microwaves, and didn’t model good behavior of scratch cooking. Sad. If we don’t teach our kids, who will? Toni the Tiger? Poppin’ Fresh? Gordon Ramsey?

Lazy, disconnected humans need fertilizer just like plants. Without highly energetic nourishment we get sick, whither, perish from a lack of what life requires to survive and return to the earth. Get thy lazybones into thy kitchen.

Early on, like street drug pushers, Kellogg's and C.W. Post realized people love and can be easily addicted to sugar; and that kids really, really like sugar. Processed sugar, high fructose corn syrup, cane sugar-loaded, processed grain cereals should never be fed to kids, adults nor the walking dead.

Kellogg invented breakfast accidently when they were actually trying to create a bread replacement for inmates at the Battle Creek (Mich.) Sanatorium. Created as a “health food,” (wink, wink) the Kellogg brothers added processed sugar to the mix, then predatory marketing executives got busy and the rest is dark history.

 

Cardiovascular Medicine researchers say children quickly become accustomed to the taste of high-sugar cereals, and find healthier options less appetizing, leading to long-term effects on their precious temple’s health. Some cereals have over 30% of their calories coming from white, crappy sugar and highly processed grains, bad fats, and artificial this and that: the genesis of America’s obesity epidemic and plague of chronic disease.

 

Beyondthebasicshealthacademy.com report sugar depressed the immune system, increasing the likelihood of obesity, causing inflammation, mood changes, and contributing to the rise of many diseases.

 

• Kellogg’s Fruit Loops: Sugar, hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated oils, modified food starch, annatto, BHT, artificial dyes red #40, 10g of sugar. Fruit Loops with Marshmallows contains 13g.


• Kellogg’s Corn Pops: Sugar and molasses, hydrogenated vegetable oils, annatto, BHT, 9g of sugar.


• Kellogg’s Apple Jacks: Sugar, partially and fully hydrogenated oils, modified food starch, modified corn starch, artificial dyes including red #40, BHT, 10g of sugar.


• Kellogg’s Honey Smacks: Sugar, honey and dextrose, partially and fully hydrogenated oils, soy lecithin, BHT and a whopping 15g of sugar.


• General Mills Lucky Charms: Sugar, corn syrup and dextrose, modified corn starch, trisodium phosphate, artificial dyes red #40, artificial flavor, 10g of sugar.

 

The Weston Price Foundation explains, “Dry breakfast cereals are produced by a process called extrusion. Cereal makers first create a slurry of grains and then put themin an extruder. The grains are forced out of a little hole at high temperature and pressure. A blade slices off each little flake or shape, which is sprayed with a coating of mostly hydrogenated oil and sugar to save the crunch. Ugh!

 

TRY THIS!

• Peanut or almond butter on Ezekiel bread


• Plain yogurt with walnuts, flax seed and nuts


• local eggs with avocado toast


• A fruit and vegetable smoothie.

 

Just say ‘no’ to Tony the Tiger.

 

Link to: Let There Be Peace On Earth

 

Live Right Now theme music is “future soundtrack II” by Adam Henry Garcia from the Free Music Archive licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

 

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