The Joy of Organic Food꞉ Healing Yourself and the Planet

Now, today, as we look at the whole picture, one very important thing is what we eat, because what we eat affects our consciousness, and our consciousness affects what we eat. And the topic today is the power of organic foods. The data on this is quite interesting because there really is a difference. Organic foods have one-quarter the number of pesticides and herbicides we live in a very polluted world. So there’s nothing it’s totally purely without pesticides and herbicides. Okay, that’s because the world’s polluted, but it’s one-quarter of the amount for 48%, lower cadmium.

Any accident that occurs amount is significant. It’s anywhere between 18 and 70% lower. And that’s a pretty important thing. And I’m going to add another concept to this. The concept of authentic food. What’s authentic food versus organic, authentic food is food, and so has its energy, food that is, according to arquillian photography studies that we actually did at the tree of life in Arizona, after about three days of food really begin to lose its energy really after 24 hours. So pathetic food is food that is eaten pretty much right after it’s harvested. And it hasn’t traveled 1000s of miles. And I think that’s the important thing to really understand. Is it what you would have fresh means it hasn’t traveled more than 150 miles? And it’s relatively fresh. After three days, it has lost a lot of its energy. But nevertheless, it’s still nutrient worthwhile.

And when people are eating healthy food, their minds were better. There’s a variety of studies, what was with high school kids, and they found that when they fed high school kids, organic foods, their scores, their athletic performances, academic scores, what I mean is we’re significantly improved. Okay, and so that’s an important thing. Another thing to understand that gets confusing is organic foods do not have any genetically modified organisms. And another point of that is that there’s a dramatic improvement though at the same time the soil content is going down. So average protein content in the 1940s of wheat, for example, was 19% it today it’s about 12%. So even in whole fresh foods, it’s going down, so I’m emphasizing, the importance of healthy soil as part of authentic organic food. So that’s a subtlety, but it’s an important one. And that’s why I do mention the importance of growing your own or getting it from a local farmer where it’s been freshly picked, and you’ve inspected the farm, so you actually know what he, the farmer has actually done. Okay? And that is the important thing. Now, we’re going to take a short break. But before we do this, I just want to note, again, we’re talking about authentic organic food and the power of food to affect our consciousness. My name is Dr. Gabriel Cousens, you can reach me at treeoflife.mn.co or drcousens.com.