In the first article I reviewed why so many health myths are still woven into our societal fabric, even though the perpetuation of these myths are destroying the functionality of our population. In the second article I touched on this issue again and reviewed the particular health myths currently circulated through The Canadian Food Guide and USDA Food Pyramid. These previous articles can be found at www.jchristoff.com

There are so many health myths circulating out there, it’s hard to know where to start. The answer to moving past these health myths, as a society, is two fold.

First, we need to stop employing so many people within the structures that fortify and perpetuate these health myths. Instead of fortifying structures that don’t work, we need to eliminate them. It doesn’t really matter what the unemployment statistics are if everyone is sick, obese, depressed and dysfunctional. There aren’t many private institutions (businesses) that perpetuate ideas that bring negative health results or negative results in general because the public shy away from services that don’t produce the results they’re looking for.

It is for these reasons that we usually find ideas, which are well past their prime, inside government institutions. Business that don’t change go bankrupt. Governments that don’t change, run deficits and then act confused as to why everything starts falling down around them. Our government institutions aren’t changing fast enough because they’re too large and too cumbersome. If they were smaller, they may be able to change fast enough. That brings me to my second point, regarding what we need to do in order to get out of our health myth crisis.

We as a society need to shift (and shift quickly) to an adult mode of existence and out of our child mode of existence. We don’t need so many government bodies telling us what to do in the first place. These problems aren’t complicated. We need to put on our adult pants and tackle these issues with adult minds. Only children need to be told what to eat, how much to exercise or what’s needed to get better if we’re sick. Basically the entire issue boils down to growing into the adults we were always supposed to be. Do we really need a doctor to tell us why we’re sick when we eat poorly, rarely exercise, drink too much alcohol and work jobs we don’t like? Really? Are toxic drugs or surgeries the answer to making us healthier? Why do we keep drugging and cutting ourselves when it’s obvious these ideas don’t work? Why do we put up with a health care system that rarely makes anyone healthy? Adults know these answers. Children don’t even understand the questions.  An adult mind won”t always be found in an adult body.

Lets look at genetic disease as our next health myth, which keeps many North Americans running east looking for a sunset. The genetic myth goes something like this. Your genes set your disease destiny so there’s nothing you can really do to avoid what diseases you’re going to get. Just by the sounds of it, (on the most basic level) who does such a belief appear to benefit? Does such an idea benefit you or the systems, which only profit when you’re sick? So according to this idea you could eat 6 donuts for breakfast or 6 servings or raw organic vegetables and you would end up at the same diseases.  Make sense? Not really. Even to someone who won’t look any further than what they’re told, the genetic cause of disease makes little sense. Lets be honest, it doesn’t make any sense at all and there are truckloads of research that indicates genetics don’t cause most of our diseases.

We cause our diseases and because we cause them with what we eat and how we think, then we can also reverse our diseases with what we eat and how we think. One belief system takes away all our personal power and the truth of the matter is that all the power resides inside ourselves.

More on how genes don’t play a major role inside our diseases in the next article.