Natural News in an article touts 5 super foods that are anti inflammatory and strong anti-oxidant. These are two characteristics you want to stress in your daily diet.

Your body produces inflammation naturally on a daily basis. It also gathers free radicals from the environment. If you don’t eliminate them, they lead to debilitating functionality. They lead to dementia, poor eye sight, heart disease, and cancer. Do you need more?

Eating natural foods and getting exercise eliminate both. Animals rarely suffer from dementia or heart disease. There are many cultures in existence that also don’t suffer these maladies and members live to be active to 100 years old.

If you want to create a diet with anti-oxidants and inflammation fighting super foods, you should read Johnny Bowden’s book “150 Healthiest Foods on Earth”. I started my health drive with this book by picking eight foods to include in my diet. I also started eliminating bad foods.

In the Natural News article they list 5 foods that are helpful:

Mustard, Raisins, Nuts, Seasonings, Cole slaw (Cabbage)

Mustard helps fight migraines for which a surprising number of people suffer. Raisins and nuts have anti oxidants as do cabbage and many spices.

In the mornings I have a fruit bowl of apples, bananas, peanuts, raisins, with flax seeds and a half bowl of oat meal. I eat my oat meal dry because I don’t eat dairy. If you put fruit on it or a little syrup (pardon the sugar) it becomes delicious. I add cinnamon and raisins to my oat meal.

I mix mustard in my tuna mix for my wraps. I include tuna, lemon pepper, brown mustard, zucchini, onions, and tomatoes. (notice no mayonnaise). Then I wrap it in wheat tortilla for a great wrap. This is also portable if you want to take it to work.

I put cabbage in my soups. Cabbage and kale are on top of Johnny Bowden’s list of 150 powerful foods as cancer fighters.  My soups are meals in themselves. I use three types of beans, brown rice, yams, potatoes, celery, carrots, cabbage, broccoli, zucchini, kale (when I have it), red peppers, turmeric, and chicken bouillon cubes.

These three meals are great for energy, weight loss, and immune system development. Because of my exercise and recovery needs, I include meat. I eat it in small 3 to 4 ounce portions and have a small steak in the morning with and egg and put a broiled hamburger at night on top of spaghetti with vegetables or on top of brown rice with vegetables.

This is also a very inexpensive diet. Notice there are no canned and few processed foods, no dairy, no sodas, no french fries, no sweet rolls, no bread, and little sugar. Being a dessert freak, I have to admit I make brownies or banana walnut muffins to keep me alive.

In an article from Natural News it is reported that  “Between now and 2030, the aggregate global cost of treating the five most common, non-infectious diseases — cancer, diabetes, heart disease, lung disease, and mental health disorders — will top $47 trillion, according to a new report released by the World Economic Forum (WEF). And experts warn that if nothing is done to curb this escalating healthcare crisis, the global economy will most certainly collapse due to insurmountable financial insolvency.”

The World Economic Forum says these five diseases are responsible for 63% of all global deaths.

“In other words, no economy will be able to survive this approaching doomsday scenario, which is why the world’s current course must change as soon as possible. WEF spokesmen and others commenting on the report highlight increasing taxes on alcohol and cigarettes, and encouraging less consumption of “salt and trans fats,” as a helpful solution for reducing such costs. But such approaches are largely simplistic and do not fully address the root causes of non-communicable disease.

Truth be told, modern society in many industrialized nations is riddled with toxic chemicals, pesticides, herbicides, and pollutants that are wreaking havoc on both environmental and human health. The nature of genetically-modified organisms (GMO) in the food supply, reliance on processed foods as part of the Standard American Diet (SAD), and an overall complacency among many towards exercise, are also some of the primary factors contributing to this modern health crisis.”

These dire warnings support my less catastrophic posts on how to feel better through nutrition and fitness. I might add that my daily intake of digestible clay in liquid form is supposed to cleanse the intestinal tracts of metals, pesticides, and radiation. In other words, digestible clay is one solution to fight the environmental affects you can’t see.

These warnings also reinforce the fact that our modern diet and complacency about exercise have taken us too far away from our connection to nature. Man is an animal and for millions of years, his system through evolution had grown accustomed to natural food and daily labor.

The last few years in geologic time have taken us far afield. Just as we try to raise animals on unnatural foods and in unnatural conditions, we ingest the unhealthy product of these efforts at efficiency and cost reduction.

We don’t consider the cost of getting a new IPhone  or big screen TV because we know we can save money on a corn based diet and factory raised meat. The FDA and monopolized food industry are quickly taking us down the same path as the security industry did in 2008.

Just because you are not paranoid, does not mean that someone is not out to get you.

The U.S. spends over a trillion a year in health costs and we are getting less healthy every year. We spend four times the defense budget on health care. We are ruining our federal budget with health care costs and threatening everyone’s entitlements.

The U.S. spends more than almost any country and we have higher incidences of heart disease and cancer. Healthy people who come from Asia and other countries fall victim to our diseases once they adopt our diet. China is falling victim to our diseases by importing our fast food restaurants.

There are doctors who treating heart and cancer patients by putting them on whole food diets and exercise. Their patients reverse their symptoms, lose weight, and gain energy. In a documentary called “Forks over Knives” you could see on Netflix.com, a list of patients are chronicled who defied their death sentence.

When we closet cattle, pigs, and chickens into a building and nourish them on feed, we have to give them anti biotics to keep them healthy. When we feed humans meat, dairy, sugar, bad oils, and fried foods, we have to give them medicine to keep them alive.

The body produces inflammation on a regular basis. Exercise allows the body to call on cytokines to clear up the inflammation and build new muscle cells in the process. Bad foods increase cholesterol and plaque which shut down arteries.

The U.S. spends $50 billion a year on by pass surgery. Children are getting the diseases of adults and are being prescribed the same medicines. It’s too bad since there is such a simple solution.

Whole foods are what the body wants. We started down the wrong trail when we discovered fast food was convenient, cheap, and satisfying. In our busy lives we saved time by rushing the family in for a quick burger, fries, and coke. Everybody was happy.

We have become addicted to the tastes of sugar, oil, meat, and dairy. “Milk does the body good.” The short term solution has turned into a long term problem. We are sick and it costs money to keep us alive.

Even though I eat meat, I eat it in small portions and I eat meat that has not been treated with hormones and anti-biotics. I don’t eat it in between two buns. I don’t eat dairy. I eat very little sugar. I eat all I want and I eat often. I lost 45 pounds in four years without being on a diet.

At the end, I lost the last 20 pounds in four months with a raw diet. I have since started cooking again and have never put on weight. It is pretty easy to get grains, legumes, fruits, vegetables, and protein in a healthy diet.

I am a medium exerciser that starts with a warm up of stretching, push ups, stairs and then surfing. In the afternoons I do a mile beach run. I have a fruit bowl with 10 grain cereal and peanuts in the morning, a small 4 ounce steak with a piece of whole grain bread, tomatoes, and sometimes an egg at 11. Around 2, I have a tuna salad pita wrap. For dinner I have salad, soup, and/or spaghetti with brown rice and vegetables.

If everyone ate whole foods we wouldn’t need to spend a trillion on health care. We wouldn’t be having the congressional deadlocks on run away entitlements which consume 50% of our budget. The grain that goes to feed cattle could feed all the poor in the world.

A tremendous amount of oil is consumed bringing meat to the markets from pumping water, raising grain, and delivery. Eating healthy could improve land sustainability and reduce global warming. Eating healthy is a contribution in living green.