Dark Prediction for an Unhealthy Generation

by Vic Shayne, PhD

Making predictions is not my forte. However, it seems pretty inevitable that the present generation is on a crash course with disease. And I’m not talking swine flu, small pox or AIDS, although these apply as well.

People now in their 80s and 70s were raised on real foods from farms and clean soils. Processed foods were not yet the standard fare. Now look at us! Baby Boomers, by and large, were brought up eating processed foods loaded with artificial ingredients that can lead to every illness from skin rashes to cancer. But today’s youth are really up the proverbial creek. Hence my dark prediction.

When we consider the scientific fact that our bodies MUST HAVE food nutrients in order to prevent illness by building our immune systems, the strength of tissue linings and the optimal functioning of organs, glands, nerves, muscles and brains, then you’ll see why I say this generation is headed for a waterfall. Young people, from age one to forty, have been raised on fake foods, artificial ingredients, junk food, fast food, and worthless calories. Their DNA have not been fed the raw ingredients necessary for warding off disease. In fact, BAD FOODS BUILD DISEASE far into the future.

Even worse, prescription drug usage among today’s youth is outrageous, with the majority of school kids being on one pharmaceutical or more. And this is taking its toll on the immune system day after day, throughout their lives. Antibiotics are destroying the good bacteria that support the immune system and aspirin is destroying cell linings. Anti-depressants used on teenagers are leading to suicide.

Dr. Joseph Glenmullen, clinical instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, said, “In recent years, many patients who have toxic reactions to antidepressants are misdiagnosed as bipolar and put on powerful anti-manic drugs because the pharmaceutical industry has not adequately educated doctors on how to recognize antidepressant toxicity. For years the pharmaceutical industry denied antidepressant-induced suicidality, saying it was the patients’ underlying depression. In effect, this was blaming the victims. Now that the FDA has officially warned that antidepressants may make patients suicidal, the pressure to diagnose patients who do poorly on antidepressants as bipolar is the latest variation on this theme of blaming patients rather than the drugs.”1 Dr. Glenmullen tells us that THERE IS NO WAY TO DIAGNOSE bi-polar, but people are put on drugs for this anyway.

Bad foods in the diet lead to physical and mental problems. Drugs do not cure anything. Nutrition must come first.

The only way to begin to turn this around is by eating as many natural, organic fruits, vegetables, seeds and nuts as possible while forgoing all the destructive foods I just mentioned. The sad fact is that there are no antioxidants in potato chips, no carotenoids in a McDonald’s burger and Coke, no chlorophyll in a serving of Cheese Whiz. With this present generation, we now have the latest threat — Frankenfoods (Genetically engineered foods) which are untested and sure to cause health problems, according to scientific sources. Today’s kids have no nutrients to get them through their lives in good health. While modern medicine is keeping people alive longer by patching damaged bodies with drugs and surgery, it is not addressing the nutrient deficit that shall take its toll in greater numbers in coming generations. Eat organic, real, whole foods, because man-made, artificial ingredients are toxic to the human organism.

1. ABC News, Q+A: Antidepressant Side Effects, Primetime Live Report, Dec. 15, 2004