#1 Killer of the American People

Good morning! This hour, I am up grading papers and putting grades in for a few of the classes I teach online. One of the classes I teach concerns eating Whole Foods. I love the material I am teaching, though I don’t agree with all of it. But we mainly discuss the various benefits of eating whole foods versus processed foods. It reminds me of a poem I wrote years ago. I’d like to share it with you…

Americans are dying

And if they are not dying, they are living in suffering

and the blame is always put on something else.

Some say its multiple murder and violence

rapidly increasing while we collectively stay silent.

Some say its cancers and AIDS

causing our physical and mental degradation

Ultimately annihilating a mass number

of the American population.

Some say its suicidal habits and stress,

Heart attacks, strokes, or the government’s neglect.

Unintentional injuries, trauma and natural disasters,

All of these are blamed for eliminating us faster.

Maybe some of all of this is correct.

Maybe some of all of this is killing us.

But my personal belief

My personal educated belief

is that the #1 killer of the minds and bodies

of the American people is…

Triple quarter pounders with cheese.

Oh yes, but also

Super-sized french fries from Micky D’s,

Churches 3 piece,

Pizza Hut meat lover’s with double cheese,

Sonic’s extra long cheese coney with extra chili please

and the total is heart disease.

Take 2 Taco Bell burritos if it’s late,

KFC’s thigh and drumstick fried never baked,

Panda’s shrimp fried rice covering the whole plate,

Shakey’s 22 oz cookies and cream milkshake,

 and a little bitty Debbie’s chocolate cake

and obesity becomes your mate.

But let’s think,

what is the connection

that produces our food selection?

We start on farms where some cows are fed dead animals

instead of grain and grass

they’re pumped with antibiotics, we eat this beef

and for some reason our health is failing fast.

We crowd and cage chickens in dirty pens

surrounded by their own mess

some are pumped with antibiotics

some with steroids

possibly to make the manufacturers burden less

But this food and chemicals, can our bodies effectively digest?

We drink diet cokes

with suspected tumor causing aspartame

And sodium nitrite preserved dinners

with hidden cancer claims.

We have high fructose corn syrup

in every can, cereal, package and box

Massive meat fillers, salmonella and e-coli killers

and expired food left in stock.

What the heck are we eating??!!!

All the food additives,

 red dye number 40

yellow dye number 5 and 6

We have fruit and veggies pumped with chemicals

to give them color an off season has missed.

I could go on and on about this, but you get the pic.

The truth is:

What goes in to the body is not what defiles a man

but what comes out. 

But if nothing is coming out on a regular basis,

what went in is killing him.

Our people perish from lack of knowledge.

You have now been educated. 

Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge, but he who hates correction is stupid. Proverbs 12:1(NKJV)

I call this NUTROETRY. Yeah….I like that term. Remember where you heard it first. I believe you will continue to hear NUTROETRY from me. Let me go ahead and copyright it while I’m at it (NUTROETRY (phrase copyrighted by Jenelle N. Robinson 2011)). If you haven’t caught on by now, I am a little silly….but back to the topic…what did you think of my nutroem (nutrition and poem mixed together)? Makes you frustrated too, eh? Yep. But we continue to buy into the lie.

With that aside, here’s some advice to you to help you live longer with less disability and illness: increase the vibrant colors (red, purple, dark green, etc.), which are usually received from fruits and vegetables. Decrease the bland colors (white, beige, brown), which may most often be received from things like nachos, french fries, hamburgers, etc. I know you have heard it so many times before, but fruits and vegetables are where more life is….we will talk about that on another blog…until then!

-Jenelle