TheMagnoliaMetaphor;Youarewhatyoueat

Looking out my door today, I am always amazed at the beautiful magnolia I planted in the front yard when I built my home. By the time I finished the build, I was seriously short of cash. The builders had left the property strewn with construction rubble and fast-food packaging debris. Consequently, I ended up skimping on the landscaping and planted the tree directly into that plowed-over wreckage.

Needless to say, the tree struggled with various maladies. It barely grew and showed constant signs of infestation on both its leaves and bark. After five years of watching it languish, I seriously considered putting it out of its misery and clearing it away. Then, a funny thing happened. Those roots finally extended past the debris into the normal, deeper soil. Almost immediately, all the bark wounds cleared up without any chemical treatment, and the tree has since transformed into a perfect specimen.

The moral of the story is that if we can wean our population away from the processed foods that our bodies have no evolutionary experience handling, and reinstitute the basic diet that our ancestors thrived on, we can become like my magnolia.

It is truly remarkable when you think of it: we have achieved medical breakthroughs amazing to anyone with medical knowledge, and yet our population remains riddled with increased autoimmune disease, early-onset malignancies, diabetes, heart disease, and obesity. We possess the highest level of medical insight in history, but we have yet to address the "rubble" in our own environment.