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As the "hove" nations grow
richer, their national state
of health grows
poorer.
Per–
sons
in less developed
oreas
with
a
simpler life often
experience comparatively
better health
-
even with
inferior medica/ facilities .
The difference is often diet.
Read in this article the dis–
astrous
result of
one
of
modern man's attempts lo
"upgrade" his food supply
-his tampering with bread,
the traditional staff of life.
by
Charles
F.
Vinson
The Broken
Staff of Life
"EVER
feel
just plain
lousy?"
in–
quires the television commer–
cial, sympathetically offering its
product for temporary pain relief.
That question strikes a familiar chord
in most people. Feeling "just plain
lousy" seems to be a way of life. For
many people, "good health" includes no
more than a touch of sinus, bursitis,
neuritis, indigestion, heartburn, gas,
constipation, poor eyesight, dandruff,
brittle fingernails, fatigue, frequ ent
colds, coros, assorted allergies, decayed
teeth, blotchy skin, obesity and
¡
or occa–
sional insomnia.
In America, the incidence of diabetes
is increasing. More than seven million
Americans have arthritis. One of ten
supposedly "healthy" American males
has a stomach ulcer. One of six is
sterile.
And just about every American
knows of someone who has recently
died prematurely of cancer or heart
fai lure.
In Britain, one in four suffers from
chronic bronchitis. One in five develops
cancer. Britons suffer
in
general from
obesity and wretched dental conditions.
Shockingly early tooth decay is even
forcing sorne British children under
six
years of ag .! to be fitted with dentures!
Medica) scientists have begun to piece
together a new pattern of disease in
Western Europe and America - in
fact,
in
all the "have" nations from
Canada to South Africa to Australia. In–
fectious diseases such as tuberculosis,
plague, etc.,
tued
to be the main cause
of lowered average life expectancies.
Today's life-expectancy statistics are
barely improved. Modero man is now
being tortured by the
degenerative dis–
eases,
which strike mainly in the second
half of life.
Doctors refer now to the "twenty
years abuse," meaning man can abuse his
natural good health for that period of
time before the effects begin to catch up
with him.
Paradoxically, the Westem nations
have the most advanced medical science
in the wocld - and the most disease.
Yet in Africa - even with lower