Eat & Drink Like This!
(more below)
shortest version
Eat and drink like what's in the above pictures (organic food with no bad chemicals and good spring water) to an ~80% full feeling at each meal* and you could "live long and prosper" (especially with the remainder of this website's free knowledge).
* (Hara hachi bun me - Wikipedia)
short version
Please do this!
- only eat and drink organic food and juices and natural, unaltered spring water
- listen to good music, look at good art, dance! (whatever "floats your boat": poetry, comedy, wood-working, crochet / knitting, theatre, comic books, anime and mangas, etcetera)
- keep up with friends and family as you genuinely yearn to
- have (further) fruitful fun! (examples: start an Etsy project offering something cool you designed or play a cheap recorder or old guitar on a street corner for donations or free)
Refrain from doing / don't do this!
- refrain from ingesting any substance extracted from whole foods in folly including "soy lecithin", "avocado oil", "sunflower lecithin / oil", sodas ketchup with "high fructose corn syrup" (organic cane sugar, corn and tomatoes only)
- refrain from ingesting such as cereals with "tocopherols" and "BHT", bad preservatives, and not even "Vitamin A" nor "niacin" which cause illness too (Jackie Chan, the famous martial artist and actor, professed to never needing "vitamins")
- refrain from eating such as "fast food" ranch dressing or similar, even at fancy restaurants, if it has (a) bad preservative(s) in it
long version
To remain healthy and to become healthier we should know what has helped us and others in the past and be prayerful (to Christ, to God) about what to do now if we have even any doubt whatsoever about what's good for our bodies and minds.
Eating and drinking so, exercising often and properly, and enriching (even ameliorating) our psyches, our minds, our souls is part of good living.
We can exercise by dancing, by working out at a gym, by playing sports, and by exploring nature.
Listening to and playing good music with good timing and volume adds to our holistic health too (of body and mind, individually to globally).
Educational entertainment such as reading poetry (e.g. Rupi Kaur holding her book below) also supports our well-being.
Continuing, good discernment of scientific efforts, both in the past and recently, supports our health when faithfully acted upon. At its best, discernment includes prayerfulness and "critical thinking"*, logical reasoning about that which is of utmost import whilst also heeding the varied communications and signs of God about matters of importance and urgency (God who surely is able to reason and even beyond our notions of it).
My own discernment of my experience including scientific research is that (imprudently) manufactured chemicals and over-processed food amalgamations (such as "monosodium glutamate", a flavonoid, and "sulfur dioxide", a toxic preservative) are not good for our bodies whatsoever.
In comparison all natural, wholesome foods (without herbicides nor pesticides similar to "Roundup" used on them at any time) are good for us including genuinely "organic" fruits, sprouts, nuts and vegetables which pass sensory discernment (smells wholly good, tastes wholly good, etcetera) in such as the produce section of good health-food / grocery stores.
To restate this for added emphasis, fruits and vegetables should never be exposed to pesticides nor herbicides (chemicals that surely may detract from our bodily health if ingested, even if we were unaware of or denying this).
left: good fruit
right: unhealthy processed food (eventually chemicals such as "sodium tripolyphosphate" cause illness if consumed; even prayerful requests for blessings would only do so much)
To restate this for added emphasis, fruits and vegetables should never be exposed to pesticides nor herbicides (chemicals that surely may detract from our bodily health if ingested, even if we were unaware of or denying this).
We should not eat crackers nor cereal with so-called preservatives that would be taxing to our livers (all of them except naturally occurring salts).
We should not consume "dirty" apples (contaminated with pesticides / herbicides) discernible by smell)
We should also not drink bottled water with fake minerals (not naturally occurring nutritive nor sustaining minerals and not nutritive nor sustaining chemical substitutes) such as "Dasani", Nestle "Pure Life", nor "Aquafina" which multiple people told me tastes bad.
Amorally manufactured chemical amalgamations aren't nutritive minerals. "Calcium carbonate", "magnesium chloride", etc., are cheaply made and deleterious / burdensome to health.
We should not ingest such as "Sunny D" (containing the chemical "Yellow 6") if good oranges and fresh orange juice with all of the pulp are available.
Only truly good water like Ozarka, Arrowhead and Crystal Geyser spring water are worth buying and drinking.
So, ALL manufactured chemicals added to food have been, with few to no exceptions, deleterious to our health.
This has been the result of succumbing to greed, not caring about long term prosperity nor trusting God and people to help us earn a living virtuously (which I'm proud of having done my whole life).
Restating, these are bad for us: "BHT" (causative of cancerous illness), "high fructose corn syrup" (causative of diabetes), "magnesium carbonate" (not nutritive, causative of illness), "soy lecithin" and "no pulp orange juice from concentrate" (not nutritive, a drain on our health)
The articles linked below support my statements:
Top 6 Dangers of Maltodextrin and 5 Healthier Substitutes (powerfoodhealth.com)
Is Yellow 6 Bad For You? - Here Is Your Answer. (isitbadforyou.com)
Good farming and gardening, good agrarian stewardship, makes no concession for today if it too costs our future. This is unfortunately what occurred when monocropping caused the Dust Bowl of the 1930s to horrid loss and the consequence of Monsanto's greed and negligence was glyphosate runoff causing such as celiac disease to many thousands and initially less severe illness into the millions of people (https://youtu.be/TYTsQbahME0?si=_ITFFm7Jxr7KXip_).
To summarize, if it's a manufactured chemical refrain from consuming it. If it's an untampered with product of Mother Nature, it may be good. Smell it, pray about it, touch it, search online about it,... whatever you gotta do to be sure it's okay to eat.
As lagniappe for you (a Creole expression for "a lil' something extra") please buy and recommend only the Natural American Spirit brand of cigarette until and unless other brands follow suit. They've refrained from mixing harmful additives with tobacco that when burned create carcinogens that have caused lung cancer. This is the only brand I'm aware of that does not mix chemical additives hoping to addict people to their cigarettes in with tobacco.
* The Dalai Lama, quoted in I Am, the movie:
Question for the Dalai Lama: “What’s the most important [thing] we can do now?”
Answer: “Critical thinking, followed by action. Discern what your world is. Know the plot, the scenario of this human drama. And then figure out where your talents might fit in to make a better world.”
(source: https://calvincorreli.com/blog/1957-critical-thinking-followed-by-action)
