GUIDED CONSUMERISM AND NUTRITION

What Cannot Be Controlled Can Be Destroyed

An illustration in a very popular Greek Comic book shows a customer complaining to the waiter about the live roach he found in his soup. The waiter takes an insecticide spray out of his pocket, sprays the bowl before the eyes of the astounded customer, and tells him: "Don't start with the whole ecological stuff, please!" So what happens when instead of the soup, we have the sea?

Finding clean fish becomes more and more difficult, whether it is freshwater fish or ocean fish. Freshwater fish seem to be one of the most contaminated foods. Carnivore fish like bellywho are most likely contaminated with heavy metals such as mercury, which is a hormone-inhibitor. Fish-farmed salmon are fed with different drugs, chemicals, and hormones, while ίη shellfish we often discover concentrations of cadmium which is another endocrine-blocker heavy metal (diets including adequate quantities of calcium, protein, iron and zinc help protect against the absorption of cadmium.)

Clean fish are those who live in deep waters, like cod, wild salmon, sardines, and mackerel. Scientists estimate that after the year 2050 fish will disappear from our diet, as will sea life in its entirety, because of the overwhelming natural pollution from man and from greedy fishing practices that are supported by colossal multinational corporations. These same corporations control grains, animal pasture, land, produce, commerce, and money, that is, they control our entire life. The sea is connected with the freedom of nutrition because it cannot be subjected easily under control like the earth is. Our priorities should be geared to the sea, to the water which is like our sou1, if we wish to restore hea1th and balance on earth, in our food, and in our bodies. Human bodies are made of 72% water, which is as much as the proportion of sea versus land. Water, just like the sou1, has always found its way, going through mountains, cliffs and canyons. The water cycle includes rain and even the sky is also "sprayed" daily.

Control of the Cycle of Life and Death

Is this another conspiracy theory or is it just the reality we have come to accept and live in silence with, day after day? The entire cycle of life on earth is in critical condition.  Tons of nuclear waste transferred in the mud of sewage systems and water into the sea, will transform into toxic rain, and ίn turn, they will pollute whatever forests and soil were salvaged from desertification, drought, fires, and expropriations.

Scientists have intervened ίη the DNA of seeds and ίn the soil ίn order to increase the volume of harvest using chemical ferti1izers and pesticides, and imposing, nevertheless, as necessary the spraying of increasingly stronger pesticides. The harvest, which is now rich in volume but also in poison, is the product promoted by the World Trade Organization (USA) in grain/vegetable and fruit markets. Any leftovers (the biggest part of it) become animal food enriched with fish flour that is already infected with poisonous elements from contaminated seas and, in many cases, recycled rotten or sick animals. Animals have controlled nutrition so they can get certified and approved for consumption. Since they are afraid that animals may get sick by eating this "special" food they were forced to add strong antibiotics and other drugs to cattle feed. These stronger antibiotics were not enough so, in addition, they planned immunizations, spraying and radiation, not to mention steroids.

In Europe it is expected that animal illnesses will persist, such as cattle tuberculosis, while new diseases will appear as well, such as the reproductive and respiratory syndrome of pigs. It is further estimated that diseases that plague animals in Africa right now will soon appear in Europe. The most important among them are the infectious pneumonia of the ox, the plague of small ruminantia, as well as foot-and-mouth disease. It is obvious that the plant kingdom would not escape from the ring of dangerous pathogenic organisms. Scientists already note that during the last century in Europe, we have been witnessing an increase in new plant diseases. Among the first culprits on the list for the emergence and spread of infectious disease in the future are, in addition, to travel, migration and commerce, the changes in climate that upset the balance of the planet and its inhabitants. Researchers note that within the next seventy- five years, changes in climate are expected to have the biggest impact on diseases transmitted by vectors like bugs--bugs being one of the basic foods of ancient peoples.

All industries today revolve around the food industry. Food technology is the proof that we are in this "refined" situation of a civi1ization that kills with a fork. What an irony!  Mutated milk, yogurt, cheese and ice cream, everything "light," and margarines, among others, cause intolerance, chronic pneumonia, allergies, constipation, diabetes, autism, Alzheimer's, infertility, while canned food, cold cuts, meats- and poultry, fish, vegetables, grains and seeds, and trans fats are responsible for free radicals, arteriosclerosis, encephalopathy, multiple sclerosis and some particularly rare diseases (rare, because the specific drug was administered selectively in some areas).

Dietary Substitutes, Supplements, and Additives

The dubious dietary supplements, dioxins, preservatives and biochemical substances, additives, colorants, and antibiotics that are well-known for a series of scandals for suspected fraud and side effects, and which haνe all started as symptomatic and beyond suspicion, are considered well-funded, innocent scientific experiments. We can witness the results on a daily basis on our plates; they cause bad skin conditions, neuropsychological problems, damage in the neurotransmitters, destruction of our natural defenses, damage in our immune system, problems in the bone marrow and blood circulation, strokes, heart attacks and cancer.

However, the long-term consumption of substances, whether in the form of supplements or in the form of food, hides dangers like osteoporosis (because of insufficient absorption of calcium), renal cancer (possibly linked with an excessive function of the kidneys in disposing metabolic products stemming from these extra substances), increase in body weight, poor absorption of some substances because of the excessive absorption of others, and so forth. fu this way, we don't get, for instance, the nutrition elements that flour has when found in its natural form, since we are forced to take them in the form of a dietary supplement sold by multinational corporations that went through the trouble to take them from the peel of the crop and made them into a ρill.

We cannot substitute an entire meal with a supplement. Food proνides us with a multitude of nutritious elements not included in supplements. The diversity in nutrition guarantees all the necessary nutrients for our organism and makes dietary supplements useless. Different boosters and probiotics in bread and baked goods and in all desserts containing aspartame are responsible for teratogeneses, tumors, holes or cancer in the brain, epilepsy, respiratory problems, premature menarche in women, decrease in sperm quality and problems in the ovaries. From the moment when mothers left home and were forced to go to work, we missed their blessed food.

Conservation of Cancer and the Control of Fear

Usually, two or more factors are responsible for carcinogenesis in the body. For example, when we sit in front of a computer screen, through radiation there are higher degrees of mercury evaporated from amalgamated dental fillings. The most fundamental and common factor is internal contamination since a clean and healthy body does not produce cancer. Nutrition is 90% responsible for the development of cancer and many other diseases. Only 10% accounts for the rest.

One hundred twenty-three substances suspected for carcinogenesis and teratogenesis have been detected in the total of all dai1y care products sold around the world. Toothpaste with triclosan (dichlorophenoxy phenol), shaving foams with triethanolamine, shower gels and creams with methylisothisolinole, sodium laurel, peelings with phenol, dish washing soaps with lanolin (that is produced from sheep hair, usually steeped in DDT and other pesticides). Hair color products that, like many industrial products, contain lead, which is harmful for the organism and dangerous for fetal heath in pregnant women. Sun screens with methyl benzylidene camphor, which is harmful to the thyroid, lipsticks that use worms and dead fish as raw material. Burnt fat and fat from grills is collected and made into soap.

Specialists in the food and drug field know this for a fact: the food that we are consuming while taking a medication could decrease its action, even cancel it altogether, or it could increase its absorption by our bodies. For example, grilled meat contains polyunsaturated hydrogen that intervenes in the liver function resulting in an increase in metabolism for a large number of drugs. Those who eat meat should avoid medication and those who prefer medication should give up meat. This should be legislated by law and mentioned, as is the case with cigarettes, on the meat package and on every medication and supplement, on every cosmetic product and food product, as well as on products of daily use such as cell phones. We cannot talk about legality when we limit it only to certain interests. There are also those who, when repressed by "legality", tend to oppress their oppressors in their own legality. For example, doctors should ask their patients about the consumption of tomatoes, or meat and the use of medications and cell phones, the same way they inquire about smoking.

The System of Health or Dependence Regulates our Need for Security

The field of medicine has created a universal lethargy, since it has lost its way, changing goals and aims from putting the human being at the center, to the consistent accumulation of wealth by a dependent clientele worldwide. The earth increasingly resembles a gigantic laboratory for genetic experiments. From a pregnant woman's way of life to the C-section and the incubator, and from compulsory schooling or military immunization, to children's and teenagers' foods, soft drinks, fast food, video games, college education in lieu of real education, relationships between the two sexes, labor, social, political and intellectual relations even to the hot topic of transplants, euthanasia and burial, we will find incessant lying, fraud and criminal mistakes.

Why doesn't anybody react to all this? The mass media are concerned with roaches and small businesses that cause minor harm and they do not bother to look at the source of the problem. As much as this will sound extreme, no fly found in a patron's dish has ever caused death. Οn the contrary, hospitals and cemeteries are crowded with consumers of food and drugs. In a short time there won't be any difference between the two. It would be fair to say that doctors shou1d be the first ones to react, but this way they would lose the clientele that hotels, restaurants and cooks send-to them, by ordering tons of mutated meat every day. Ignorance, indifference, and financial interests guided by specific groups are lumping people in herds like pigs in pig farms.

The health system has become an ill system. It spends 9/10 to deal with disease and only 1/10 for prevention. It is clear that the motive is not financial gain, but the control of our choices, desires, our will and our mind. Ineffective and often deadly drugs are approved daily, without going through adequate controls. Very recently, we had in Greece the case of a child, victim of antibiotics whose skin was burnt. Former FDA member Dr. Herbert Ley commented in a deposition in front of the US Senate: "People think that FDA protects them. This is not the case. What FDA actually does and what people think it does have no relation with each other whatsoever." For over 40 years medical research indicates that diabetes is a degenerative disease caused by the consumption of artificial foods that focus on profit over health.

Who is Terrorized by Overpopulation?

Associated Press, Rome: Crop production ίn developing countries is expected to suffer an important blow. Climate changes threaten to increase the number of hungry people ίn the world since they will limit appropriate fields for cultivation ίn developing countries, warns the Food and Agήcu1ture Organization (ΡΑΟ) of the United Nations. Α report by the same organization mentions: "In almost 40 developing countries with a total population of 2 billion people, including 450 million undernourished, production losses due to climate change could increase significant1y the number of undernourished people, putting obstacles to the fight against hunger and nutritional insecurity."

For instance, the United States exported during 1980 "84 percent of world production of com, 82 percent of soy products and 45% of flour." Researcher Lowell Ponte wrote in his book Food: The Secret Weapon Οf America "by controlling 57% of the world grain exports the United States is the 'Saudi Arabia of food.'" Only 8 out of 173 countries (USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Argentina, South Africa, France, and Thailand) produce more foods than they consume. Only the US, out of these eight countries that produce food, and out of all the OPEC nations that export oil worldwide, has the largest monopoly in exporting produce.

The earth's popu1ation increases every year by 80 million (one new person is born almost every nine seconds, while another person dies every twelve seconds). Sixty-five out of 80 million are born in very poor countries. This means that every year the population of the earth increases almost as much as the current population of France, Germany or England. The population of Africa makes up 10% of the world population. It is estimated that ίn 100 to 150 years it will reach 25% of the world population (despite the deadly diseases that plague the black continent). In some countries, especially in African countries, population increase is explosive, since it doubles every few years. This increase exacerbates the existing problems of nutrition, housing, health, education, work, and so forth. Poverty is a form of intellectual subjugation. Behind the hypocrisy of mutated food donations to the hungry of the third world, we hide our tolerance for yet one more extermination.

The Massive Extermination Plan

Big pharmaceutical corporations promote surgeries and immunizations for a number of reasons that the unsuspected patient will often take as a charity, a gift that resembles the horse of Troy, since it carries a new virus. Unsuspected human guinea pigs are now in the bil1ions, and anybody cou1d research that, from prisons to kindergartens, to nursery homes and many private clinics or, in general, wherever we have massive concentration of people. President Bush hints that in the case of a bird-flu pandemic the army may have to intervene has led many people to specu1ate that in this way they plan a step towards military rule.  According to Countercurrents.com, a thinking-ahead Internet site, the next national security alert- such as a bird flu pandemic- maybe the swan song of our democracy.

Bush already boasts that he will use the army to quarantine those infected. Last year, Bush ordered a study of the immediate creation of a series of containment centers that will be added to an existing 600 units. In addition, the Department of Interior gets consu1tation from an Israeli firm, Israeli Prison Systems Ltd, for the speedy construction of special1y-built concentration camps that will be located in rural areas in most inland America and Alaska. This year, before Christmas, Bush gave presidential pardon to two turkeys. The rest are in bad shape. Some think he is out of it.  Some believe that bird flu will be used purposely to decrease world population. Author Leonard G. Horowitz, a specialist in pandemics, has claimed that "if bird flu develops into a pandemic, this will have happened thanks to political and economical planning."

This position is further supported by the distorted presentation of the issue from mass media that profit over useless and dangerous vaccines and ignore blatantly previous pandemic cases that have been caused by humans, such as SARS, AIDS, and so forth. The ongoing genetic experiments signal that more mutated flu viruses wil1 be created. High­ ranking White House officials involved in this case have claimed for a long time that we are heading to a flu pandemic. At the same time pharmaceutical executives, also involved, have by pure coincidence huge amounts of vaccines ready in stock and, at the same time, they have access to every possible medium that exacerbates panic of the public in order to benefit them. The public must resist this mass murder that is planned with the help of doctors and researchers. This genocide plan serves economical and political interests that aim at decreasing world popu1ation.

The Role of Genetically Altered Foods

The promotion of genetical1y altered foods today comprises a central issue of the US foreign policy. In September of 2004, the US embassy ίn the Vatican organized a conference in collaboration with the Academy of Sciences of the Pontiff under the theme: "Nurturing a hungry popu1ation: Ethical requisition of biotechnology." There was opposition from many Catholic priests that resu1ted in an intense religious debate among Catholics.

Diets that are based on grains and crops rich in phytic acid (phytine) contribute to the wide lack of minera1s in Third World popu1ations. In these p1aces we are witnessing consumption of calcium, magnesium, iron and zinc in plant-based food, but these peoples' diets -based on soy and grains- inhibit the absorption of minerals. Soybean has one of the highest levels of phytic acid (phytine) compared to any other grain or crop studied. Zinc is the intelligence mineral and it is necessary for the development of the brain and the nervous system. Lack of zinc can produce a fee1ing of "emptiness that some vegetarians interpret as a sign οf "spiritual enlightenment."

In 1992, the Swiss Hea1th Organization estimated that 100 grams of soy protein equaled the estrogen leve1s found in a contraceptive pill, whi1e in a different study it was found that isoflavone concentration in the cardiovascular system of babies fed with soy formula was 13,000-22,000 times higher from the estradiol concentration found in the plasma of babies fed with cows milk. Α baby fed exclusively with soy formula gets intakes of estrogen quantity equal to five contraceptive pills.

In a series of experiments, Irina Ermakova, one of the leading scientists at the Institute of Higher Neural Activity and Neurophysiology at the Russian Academy of Sciences, added genetically altered soy flour to the nutrition of female rats. Other rats ate regular soy or no soy at all. Experimental nutrition started two weeks before rats conceived and continued through the duration of pregnancy and post-partum. Within three weeks after that, 55.6% of the genetically-altered soy-fed rats died while the percentage for the regu1ar soy group was 9% and 6, 8% for the non-soy group.

Α manifestation of nutritional imperialism could be the case where a certain type of food appropriate for the genetic construction of a specific group of people is promoted for consumption in other groups of people, regardless of whether they have the biological basis for its digestion. Such is the case of milk. In the case of Greeks, a Mediterranean people, the lactose intolerance ranges between 60%-90%, that is 6-9 out of 10 Greeks cannot digest milk. Nevertheless, they do drink it (remember the commercial claiming that milk makes strong kids) but they would never tolerate fraud in extra virgin olive oil. If we lose the olive oil, we wi1l lose God's mercy.  Thankfully, we still maintain something good, good wine and olives, some types of cheese and every place in Greece is rich in its own small production of goods.

Trapped in a Fascist Nutritional Regime Dictated from Above

You are free to have a pet of your preference, cats, dogs, birds, fish, iguana, snakes, eνen crocodiles, but just try to bring a goat in your back yard and see what happens. Can you just say no? Do you think you are free to reject contaminated food imposed on you? Such was the belief among Cypriots until recently. However, there was recent1y an article in the daily press confirming what the real regime is, a regime that is a far cry from a democracy, for which all civilized governments of the West worry about. He article read: "The US embassy in Cyprus imposes nutritional rules."

In June of 2006, the American ambassador gave a memo to the president of the Cypriot parliament where he calls on the Environment Committee to withdraw legislation proposing that genetically altered products be placed on separate shelves in the grocery stores. The blackmail reminds us of a gangster situation, since according to this memo: “otherwise, the relations between the two countήes will be affected while at the same time nothing will happen towards the direction of protecting the health and well-being of your citizens. In addition, if Cyprus goes against our proposition, it will be considered as going against the responsibilities and regulations of the World Trade Organization and the European Union." The commerce policy of the United States not only shows a convergence with the Industry of Genetically A1tered Products, but it has chosen a clear strategy of misleading the consumer. Countries seem to have committed to the WTO and the European Union. They decide what we will be eating; the same way big stock farmers decide what to feed the animals in their farm.

The special training that security forces go through in terms of how to use the psychology of the masses in order to exercise control clearly reveals the existence of a collective consciousness that permeates all human groups. All collective consciousness can be manipulated through nutrition and this has happened in people of all ages. It all began with the clergy controlling crop stocks and the distribution of agricultural products. It is not coincidental that Adam and Eνe were kicked out of Paradise because they ate the forbidden fruit.

There is a plan for a new, powerful agency ίn the United States, the World Food Agency that will control the production and distήbutίοn of food. American researcher Texe Mars wonders in his book Days of Hunger, Days of Chaos: "Why did the Rockefeller Foundation, which is often associated with the New World Order, donate the United Nations building and provided 90 million dollars for molecu1ar biology research that serνed as the basis of lab genetics from the '30s until 1959? Why does it contribute to the funding of the International Rice Institute (IRRI) with headquarters in the Philippines, because of which Asian farmers suffer? Again, the Rockefeller Foundation ίn the years preceding the GAΤΤ agreement collected 95% of crop produced worldwide (including wheat, barley, and corn)."

Ιn Conclusion: Memory Control is the Key to Will Control

World history offers abundant examples of selective genocide all around the world. There is a diachronic race issue at the root of peoples' memory and its relation to blood. Blood is red and such is Mars' color, whose iron made the Earth's core, while its insufficiency ίn the blood is considered lethal. Α meteorite from pure iron coming from the planet of the God of War is placed at the altar of a meditation room ίn the building of some international organization. It is considered a booster of mental energy. The secret of war is associated with the mind, and deception is considered its primary silent weapon. From Babylon to Rome and from France to England and the United States, a nutrition bar is handed over. This bar, because of the food combination and methodology, is ίn sharp contrast with the blood group. This is how blood degenerates and human beings fail to balance the two hemispheres of their brain, and the fulfillment of their true destination. The natural electrolytic solution of the brain's electrical synapses with every thought consists at the same time a source of life and energy that is wasted in thousands of useless small daily actions. In the whole process, endocrine hormones and brain endorphins exhaust the organic system because of insufficient or excessive secretion.

Food is used today as a weapon of mass destruction. Its essence is lost somewhere between high aesthetics and multinational interests. The beast only obeys public opinion and that is why it makes sure to shape it a priority. There is historical evidence that supports what many people suspect already: That there is a purpose behind everything. The well-­coordinated moves that produce specific resu1ts in space and time require knowledge necessity laws and, of course, organization.  Since we have the evidence from the results we can also point to the causes. The same beast that feeds people eats them as well. This is why each and every one of us should wonder not only what s/he eats and what eats him/her but also whom is s/he feeding? Is it those who feed him/her? Those who don't have the financial ease to belong to the big family of PATIENTS-CUSTOMERS (of the trans-national pharmaceutical corporations, that are in turn, related to oil companies that constantly block free energy) seem sentenced by a plan of mass extermination through different ways that are directly or indirectly linked to nutrition. Those who find all this exaggerated should look more carefully into the relationship between water, drugs and nutrition worldwide.

Degeneration and natural, moral and mental decadence of modem man that contribute to (if not cause) modem nutrition have three major targets. Everything leads to human DNA, to the control of human brain, and to the manipulation of consciousness. This one target is articulated on three different areas: brain (in young ages), heart (the thymus gland is off since our infancy), and genitalia (in puberty). This is achieved through the way of thinking, nutrition, way of life, as long as our nutrition includes what we read, what we see, every impression and every harmful drug and chemical in the air or in the water. Nutrition will become one with the Medicine of the future. Humans consciously will benefit their health through nutrition and they will spiritualize it to the degree they themselves will become more human. Το the degree that they will claim their divine rights, they will make headway in terms of human rights that are violated on all continents.

Consequently, gastronomy will be very soon called upon to play a humanizing role much more important than it has played until today. This will happen when it will escape from its own typology and its own status quo, beyond molecular gastronomy to the real Art of Life and open up to new intellectual horizons. Because at the core of the "good living" idea there is love for the praxis, and this requires a consciousness of self-knowledge, something that not everybody can handle. In the words of Periandrus, "Free is the one who has a virtuous consciousness." Some people consider this a joke, giving way to a so-called freedom of choice. But it is Truth that sets us free and we cannot live it outside the beauty of virtues, that is, becoming human beings who live real lives and who look up.*

*Ιn Greek, one of the etymologies for the word "anthropos", is the one who looks up: ano + throskon (ανω-θρώσκων).