If you've ever read the start of the Bible, or even if you haven't, you will probably know about the poeple mentioned in the bible who live to all kinds of seemingly outrageous ages, such as living to be 300 years old and so on. After reading this information during the time that I tried to actually read through the bible, which was in my late teens (I got to about 20 pages in, which I still consider an achievement) I thought, 'OK, well how could this have actually been possible'. This was not in a way where I was dismissing the information, but in a way where I tried to figure out situations where living to these kinds of ages could be possible. That got me thinking about all of the crap that we, as modern people eat right throughout our lives, and how if we didn't eat so much rubbish, that maybe living to those kinds of ages could be a possibility....
In my teens I was aware, as a lot of us I'm sure are, that most modern day packaged food contain a great amount of unnatural and processed ingredients, such as preservatives, colourings, flavourings, etc. Now we will eat these foods pretty much everyday, if you're living the typically modern life that is, and we also start to intake these foods from a very early age via things such as baby foods, etc. This is true of even some of the best home-cooking, which will usually, most likely involve some kinds of oils, or flours, or tinned ingredients. Then on top of this we have to add the fast foods, and takeaway style meals that we all typically will regularly have when growing up in western society - things such as McDonalds, Fish and Chips, etc.
A lot of us will start to drink alcohol from around the age of 9 or 10 - obviously (and hopefully) not binges or even say whole cans of beer, but maybe a taste of some wine from our parent's glass during a special occasion, or maybe your mum, like mine, would give you a bit of Guinness every now and then. When we hit or teens we then have the ritual (at least in Britain) of going to the park with your friends, with a cheap bottle of cider, and basically just getting drunk for the fun of it. Combine this with drinking at parties, and so on, and by the time we are in our late teens we've developed quite a taste for alcoholic drinks. Finally, add on top of this the smoking, either of cigarettes, or weed, which is now tainted to very undesirable levels with chemicals, and what we end up with is a person who by the time they have hit the age of 20 has already put a vast amount of crap into their bodies.
Now this behaviour, for many of us, continues for many years afterwards (or at least it used to, a lot of us have become a lot more health conscious). This is not to mention the unnecessary stress of modern life, and things such as car pollution etc - if our diet was as good as it could be from the very start of our lives, i.e. eating natural foods, what would the difference be to our lifespans? For a bit of evidence of this check out this Moor, Annette Larkins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTWC2xIIsRs who has lived on fruit and vegetable juices from many years, and who is now in her 70s, but looks like she's in her 40s
....if we just looked at the foods that we eat, and say for each year we live, our western diets take off one year from our lifespans, then, with the so-called average life span being 75 (though I know of one lady who recently celebrated her 100th birthday, so you have to take western averages with a pinch of salt) then if we didn't have all of the crap that we eat throughout our lives we would be living to age 150 - that's just living the same lifestyle but with a vastly improved diet - improve the lifestyle, and who knows what age we could live to.
I have only talked about removing the obvious things from our diet in this post, but there are also many other things which could be improved which may not be so apparent. I advise readers to check out electric foods, alkaline foods, and the work of Dr Sebi, for tons more great information in this area.
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