here Following an article by Dr.. Andrea Bolognesi,
who collaborated with the Municipality of Prato, as an expert in natural food
in tendering for school meals
The time of meal
With the reopening of schools persists, as every year, the issue of school meals and, more generally, in power ' childhood.
It 's a matter of considerable importance that, strangely, no one speaks.
just taking one thousandth of the time and pages allocated to the controversy on the crucifix in classrooms or on the question of the weight of backpacks, to do more practical work and social life.
all know now how close the relation between the onset of major diseases that afflict our age and some unfair or inappropriate behavior food. We also know that, in this last century have radically changed these habits in the countries of the so-called "civilized".
industrial technologies have gradually penetrated the food and, on one hand improved the preservation and hygiene of food, the other has irretrievably upset the balance inherent in nutrients such as Nature had given them to us for thousands years.
To support this strategy has succeeded, more and more overwhelming publicity, totally conditioned that the eating habits of most people. Well
alliance between these two powers (well established by the god Profit), resulted in the greatest threat to health history human memories.
pollution more subtle and more deadly. Without disturbing
striking and now historical episodes such as wine or tomatoes temik methanol or the latest "mad cow disease", just dwell on only two aspects, say newspapers, and therefore more dangerous, supply current, particularly important for children: sugar and refined foods in general.
Sugar is the prototype of the "food" is fine as the remnants of the working of cane or beet, which are removed all the vitamins and minerals to get to the product "pure sucrose.
There is more food in kind unbalanced: it is for those who ingests a "metabolic bomb" that forces the body to mobilize the adrenal glands, pancreas, and consume the B vitamins and calcium, to be able to dispose of it. You can not even consider it a food, but simply a bearer of "empty calories", an end in itself, unrelated to the needs of an organization in search of balance.
The dramatic rise of sugar consumption occurred in the last century (in Italy by 3 kg. Per capita in 1881 grew to 28.1 in 1984), goes hand in hand with the increase of degenerative diseases (diabetes, atherosclerosis , cancer, etc. ..) that have replaced the role of infectious killer of the twentieth century.
Official medical science began timidly to admit (as is now overwhelming evidence) the liability of sugar in Acarie decay and obesity, other scourges of the affluent society.
environment of Natural Medicine, where I work, are known in fact many other, broader responsibilities, as documented by the enemy of health.
Much the same is to be done to refined grains, in which no more than 90% of their nutritional value, their vitality, their admirable balance of vitamins, amino acids, minerals, trace elements, which for millennia has been the backbone of ' Food. Operations such as
refining, bleaching and shine the rice, reduce the wheat flour to make 00 for a loaf of bread that has only the name and then "steer" people, obviously constipated and / or colicky, to buy the bran (previously removed!) in pharmacy or herbal products at very high prices or the biscuits "enriched" with vitamins and calcium and phosphorus (previously removed!), they really think that the state, dominated by the multinationals, has little interest in public health, and indeed it takes action to undermine it.
These are just small examples of the absurdity, or rather "complicated simplicity" for profit, which the logic of modern forces us, we could go and find examples as meaningful in any food business. Despite such evidence
conquer the evil custom of feeding the children with sweets, snacks, soft drinks and the school becomes a "partner" as a place often chosen, with wicked cunning, advertising for the trafficking of these "junk foods", which not would propose, knowing well, our worst enemy.
There is nothing more destructive of these "foods" to children's health. Cocktails are devastating (studied by experts at the table) of refined sugars, dyes, preservatives, milk powder, fats, refined flours, which have nothing of genuine, despite the brazenly proclaim different advertising spots.
In addition the use of these products and morally harmful because the child away from the natural flavors of truly wholesome foods, fruits, fresh vegetables and wholemeal bread, etc. .. Some time ago an advertisement appeared even inviting the mothers to put in your two cakes instead of bread and butter is considered "heavy" to give more energy to their children and, in another scene, a boy said to another, during the interval, a sentence like: "But the great thing about school is that there is an interval, so we can eat our snacks."
Examples of such monstrosities which still continue in other forms, should be reported or not buying at least boycotted. Something similar happened a few years ago with the blow that cover the city with the words: "Sugar is good for the brain" - "Your body needs sugar. Never lies and deception were more serious because assimilate the sugars, complex carbohydrates understood as necessary for man to that of refined sugar-sucrose which has nothing to do with the human metabolic balance and energy needs of the brain .
Returning to school meals for some years a regional law
requires the inclusion of organic food and traditional food in school meals and so some attempt is being done, but there are still many obstacles, especially for the hostility of the parents of the children, stubbornly clinging to certain biases (such as meat every day, the meal with first, second, and fresh fruit, etc. ..) and the lack of knowledge and sensitivity of the teaching staff, things that I have witnessed directly participating as a consultant Comune di Prato for school meals.
How then to defend themselves?
Here are some suggestions:
1) ELIMINATE refined sugar in all its forms, visible or hidden (it is ubiquitous in the labels!), Buy only products where it is expressly written without sugar or, alternatively, where there are natural sweeteners like honey, malt, molasses, etc. ..
2) Replace refined grains (bread, pasta, rice, flour, etc. ..) with those integrals, possibly in organic farming.
3) boycott all industrial products advertised and sold for children, on the assumption that genuine and not a harmful product is inversely proportional to the manufacturer's advertising budget.
4) Go back to the traditional food of our land and seasons and to accustom the children to eat fruit, vegetables, legumes, whole grain bread.
5) limiting the use of television in children, especially advertising.
6) Outreach to schools to the problem of school lunch menus which are not (like those of the hospitals on which we would have to write another article) example of healthy power. Spend more time in meetings with parents to discuss these problems and operational decisions on the type expel from the school vending machines dispensing of snacks, Coca Cola and the like.
Finally remember that the people who have kept primitive habits and appropriate to their own traditions and have healthy teeth are very healthy, as they had more than a century ago, the indigenous sugar cane cutters, who used to chew, while their masters and colonizers who used refined sugar started to have rotten teeth and a thousand other ills. And do not believe those who tell you that in civilized countries mortality has declined and the other is still very high because if the planet's resources were better distributed between North and South would not be so. Dr. Andrea Bolognesi
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