Pulling The Roots Of Disease (Part 5)
Additionally, the Standard American Diet causes blood sugar dysregulation, hormonal disorders, acidosis, and digestive system overload and weakness. The bottom line is that the average person’s diet is killing them in more ways than one. Despite loads of media attention and books from our nation’s top nutritional gurus, the majority of people in this country are still digging their graves with their teeth.
When we don’t drink enough healthy fluids we become dehydrated. The problem is that it’s possible to be dehydrated more or less continuously for many years and not even know it. This in turn creates chronic and severe hormonal stress that leads directly to pain and disease. Research indicates that a simple water deficiency afflicts many millions of Americans.
7) Touch Deprivation
Detachment style parenting, body issues, and neglect of the body promotes a condition known as ‘touch deprivation’. For millions of people this is a condition to simply accept. However, the stress and pain that results is more than many people can bare and drives them to extreme and desperate behavior in an unconscious effort to remedy a touch deficiency. However, there is no substitute for touch. Without enough skin to skin contact human beings become extremely imbalanced, and mentally and physically diseased.
Tissue Oxygen Starvation
Ninety percent of Americans are oxygen starved and eighty percent of these don’t even realize it. The cause for this widespread problem is twofold. First, few if any of us are actually taught healthy breathing habits, we simply ignore it all together. The second reason is due to a predominantly indoor (and sedentary) lifestyle. Living inside schools, offices, homes, cars, and shopping malls combined with unconscious shallow breathing creates hypoxia, and hypoxia is an anaerobic condition that breeds infection, cancer, heart disease, inflammation/pain and chronic fatigue.
