by Vic Shayne, PhD

Last week I had the pleasure of going out to lunch with two decorated World War II war heroes. Both men served on air missions out of England at the height of the war, nearly dying, risking their lives, watching their pals shot to pieces and waking up before dawn to do it all over again. Do you know what they ate for lunch? Liver and onions. They were both excited at the restaurant’s “special” because they remembered a time when liver was a delicacy, a real food. Along with this lunch they had a mound of green vegetables and couldn’t stop raving about the food.

Today, people do not eat a diet of real foods. Plus, on the whole, they do not eat enough green vegetables. When was the last time you saw a seven-year-old ask for a bowl of broccoli and a side of steamed carrots? Most people do not enough know what real food is. What’s going on here?

Food is now considered by most Americans to be a substance needed to keep hunger at bay. A bag of chips or a candy bar will do if they are in reach. The thought of food as nourishment is either nonexistent or lip service. Some mothers may tell their children they need to “put something good” in their stomachs, but too often the mothers don’t really understand what they mean.

If you want to go back to the days when people understood the value of real nutrition, you have to visit the WWII generation — great grandparents or older grandparents, born in the 1920s. When this generation grew up, they didn’t have artificial ingredients, pesticide-drenched vegetables, the Big Mac, toxic sludge used as fertilizer, polluted air and water, farm-raised fish, genetically engineered food, pasteurized milk, MSG, drugs in every bathroom cabinet, Cheez Whiz or Doritos.

All of these terrible “food” inventions have taken their toll on the generations since The Greatest Generation. And now most people are sick, most people are on prescription drugs, and most people still don’t know what it means to eat green vegetables. What can we learn from generations past?

We all need nutritious foods every single day!
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