My Rant on the World’s Food System, Especially America’s

Why do we drink cow’s milk? The only good reason (and I don’t believe it is good enough) I can think of is its availability/accessibility. There are obvious reasons why goats don’t drink cow’s milk and vice versa. I believe (and have read research on it) that once humans, as children of course, wean off their mother’s milk and don’t need it, we should not drink milk, especially milk from other mammals. Milk causes mucus and other sinus problems, as well as skin problems. William E. Walsh, M.D. stated in his book Food Allergies: The Complete Guide to Understanding and Relieving Your Food Allergies in regards to lactose intolerance in adults that “Mother Nature designed milk to be food for infants. Never dreaming that we would drink milk beyond the baby years, she invested little effort in creating the lactase-production system” (203). This means that we need the enzyme lactase (but don’t have it!) to easily digest lactose (the sugar in milk). In addition, milk causes mucus and other sinus problems, as well as skin problems.

Wheat nowadays is far from Biblical wheat. Biblical wheat was sprouted and nowadays wheat is highly processed (including processed into flour) and not so natural. Chemicals are even added into your “normal” loaf of bread. Chemicals/drugs (additives, dyes, colors, MSG, etc.) are added to nearly everything, including a lot of meats, fruits, and veggies. I believe deli meat is a slab of chemicals, including unnecessary sodium.

No wonder we now have so many health problems (gut, skin, overall health, etc.). Even in Canada there is a “healthier” version of Kraft’s macaroni and cheese.

I decided to write this post because lately I have been suffering from fatigue (along with trouble concentrating), headaches (sinus and non-sinus), joint pain (has been going on for a few years), stomach/gut pain (has been going on most of my life), off and on anxiety, and multiple skin issues. I have been doing a lot of research and a bit of experimenting, and believe that I might have a dairy and/or gluten sensitivity/intolerance. These food groups of course are delicious and addicting, but if I have relief from my painful symptoms, I don’t think avoiding these foods will be as hard as it sounds because relief will be worth it. I could go on about America’s food system and how the government and food producers could change America’s health for the better (after all, they do hold America’s health, or lack thereof, in their hands) by not adding chemicals to food, and treating animals better (causing less stress in animals, which then I believe we literally consume that stress when we eat American meat), but I’ll leave it at this for you to ponder.

Love God, Love People

Yesterday in one of my education classes, we watched The Ron Clark Story with Matthew Perry as the lead main character. It is about a teacher who leaves a North Carolina elementary school, a school where students are easy to teach, and moves to Harlem and ends up teaching the lowest 5^th grade class in the particular elementary school. Mr. Clark started teaching just before Christmas break, and he was the sixth teacher in that classroom already. You see, nobody believed in, or even thought of, the potential these students (poor behavior and all) could have. They weren’t really given any chances, and everyone in each of those students’ lives had very low expectations of and standards for them, so those 5^th graders started feeling like they weren’t worth saving in the education system and started not caring. There were even bets that Mr. Clark would be gone within the week. Mr. Clark set out to prove everyone wrong, including the school principal, and, oh wait, never mind, I won’t tell you the entire story. It is a movie worth watching. At the end a cried tears of anger, and then tears of joy.

The song above reminds me of the movie. It talks about loving the least, emphasizing orphaned children, because the Son served the least by adhering to their needs. He came to serve not to be served. If the King of kings was a servant to all, the least we can do is say hello to an the least of these/us.

An "outcast" for His greater purpose for me

I don't mean to sound irritable but I am so introverted because even when I am having fun in a big group (doesn't even have to be a large group), too many times in my life when I actually choose to talk, I am talked over and my voice drowns out, as if my voice doesn't count, as if no one knows I am there. This started probably around 4th or 5th grade, thus middle sucked. Okay well socially it sucked thus academically I thrived. Life didn't suck; I've never been suicidal. But since my social life is quite sucky, I have thought so many times, starting in elementary, that I could run away and no one would notice. Of course this is not true, but it goes to show how bad my social life is. This always gives me more desire to want to serve The Lord overseas because I've always wanted to escape America. I'm not going to go into detail about what I dislike about America, but I want you all to know that I don't hate America, after all it is where I've grown up and for now it is my home on earth. Ever since I was 9 years old I have had a great desire in my heart to serve The Lord overseas.

Now that I go to a private school (religious, but no religion forced upon students), I have become a bit more social (not much, but enough to be noted!) and now wish that I had gone to private school in high school and maybe in middle school too. And with this, I am kind of saying that in my life, I have put too much pressure on myself to be an overachiever in school and I haven't stressed enough socialization in my life. This leads me to my final piece in this entry: the rest of my life. I feel as though we (humanity) put too much emphasis in the nature of life: school, college, career, marriage, house, kids. You can probably envision living in suburbia with 2 kids, living in an average-sized house, and having neighbors in the same stage of life as you with similar-aged kids. I don't exactly desire this; it's too predictable. I don't want my life to be predictable by anyone, including myself. I want God to surprise me EVERY SINGLE DAY. Sometimes, I actually don't even want a home because I want to be a traveling servant of The Good Lord. But then I realize I want kids so that would only be possible for a short while. Needless to say, life would be boring if I were to follow "the social norm" thus I also think society/humanity puts too much emphasis on careers because they can easily take time away from people (including family) and this can become disastrous. I believe that God created us to worship Him and to bring glory to Him thus we need to invest in and serve others (and do it in His Name) so that we can enjoy life, living it to the fullest because we are only here by God's grace thus we cannot let the ways of the world get in our way. Of course we cannot possibly ignore the ways of the world but we shall not conform to it.

Now, you may be wondering how both of these paragraphs tie in with one another: my social awkwardness and how I desire to live a "different" or "unusual" life. Honestly, I do not know. I just pray that God will use me even in awkward situations, for His glory, that despite me not being social, that when I am social, I pray they are Godly conversations. I hope this first entry is not me sounding whiny and pitiful, but rather me pouring my heart out (and thus feelings). This first entry is just about how I have been feeling lately (and obviously in other times in my life). Maybe it is a wake-up call to others and myself to help the lost and forgotten who are still loved by the Creator but not by His people. Just food for thought, and THANK YOU for stopping by! Comments are greatly appreciated.