Food for thought and as a cure

I just dropped off a carriage load of food supplies Steph and I bought at BJ's over the weekend to the Salvation Army. I've not seen the shelves so bare in the 17 years I've donated food there. The line for requests was out the door. It pisses me off to no end to see this.. year after year. If I were the President of this great land, I would declare war on hunger and go to any lengths to see it was eradicated. The Salvation Army would be equipped with all the necessary troops, supplies and support they would need to win that war, as it is still the only world wide organization the spends almost all of it's donated funds to solving this problem of hunger.

And while for some, any food is better than none at all, in the WSJ today, a full length article explains what many have said for years about our diets and the ability of ones body to fight off disease. The Flue Fighters in our diet are, whole foods rich in vitamin A, spinach, carrots, pumpkin and other yellow fruits and veggies. Zinc found in oysters, king crab, nuts and whole grains.Vitamin C, found in red peppers, broccoli, oranges and other citrus fruits. Vitamin B-6 found in potatoes, bananas and garbanzo beans. Diets with high saturated fats appear the actually depress the bodies immune system. The article goes on the say that supplements do little if anything as the body cannot absorb the nutrients as well as in whole foods. The scientific debate continues and has had it's own contradictory advise and has been changing from year to year which leads to more confusion. The bottom line cure to many of our health problems is more about common sense eating and family dinners, much like we did as kids, before McDonalds, Burger King and Papa Ginos were on every corner. It's all about what we put into our bodies.