The Magic of eating delicious Bio-dynamic foods.

Sounds restrictive, doesn't it? And yet, there are people recovering all the time from 'terminal' illnesses on regular, small meals of raw fruits, vegetables, pulses, nuts, seeds and legumes, washed down with nature's clean water.

But what about the rest of us? Who among us realises the awful truth for a moment, as we lie in hospital, nurses piping those toxic, gaily-coloured chemos into our veins, that it was ignorance of our food which drove us to our sorry Waterloo, one supermarket-trolley-load of plastic cack at a time?

Why is it that cancer patients have the best shot at long-term survival if they adopt a living, whole-food menu and concentrate on providing the body with the nutritional sustenance it craves?

Heart disease, arthritis, diabetes, osteoporosis, AIDS, ADD, and a bewildering array of other 'fatal' problems all have an established track record of responding to the Hunza-like approach to what we put into our mouths. So why do we ignore this, preferring to die chemically under the withering eye of Matron ?

What is food?

In Food For Thought, the recipe companion to Health Wars and Cancer: Why We're Still Dying to Know the Truth, I get into some of those natural laws we break every day which are doing us in.

Food is the single-most important factor in maintaining health or conquering disease, and yet most of us are not even eating real food. So what is food? It's stuff the body can use to make more of you, that's what. Yet most of what passes for food today won't even support bacterial life, let alone a 10-year old.

As Samantha and I tour, we stay in endless hotels. In the morning, many of these establishments lay on some incredible fruit spreads for breakfast, and later, during lunch hours, the salad bar is crammed full with a huge and delightful variety of goodies.

 (America's best for this, although herbal teas should always be superheated prior to applying to the groin area). I sometimes wish I could have a crowd of you gathered around these spreads, so I could show you how expansive and varied the raw choices can be with Nature's greatest food groups, if you only take a little trouble to prepare them.

The problem is, most of us don't have the time. That's why it's Heart Attack on a Plate instead: fried eggs, fried bread, sausages, hash browns, blood pudding, chips, baked beans, coffee and a copy of The Sun.

The population's collective brain has been seduced by the Taste Monster. Most of Britain, America and Australia would eat cardboard and wet nappies if there were some fries and ketchup on the side.

Food marketing, that most deceitful and deadly of professions, is all about persuading you to go against your instincts, selling you on taste and texture, leaving your body with the nightmare of having to find the nutrition it needs to build more cells.

Today endless supermarket rows of plastic-wrapped 'food' stare smugly back at us, having been stripped of their enzymes, denuded of fibre and vitamins to ensure longer shelf-life, and then pumped full of the most boggling array of chemicals and fillers to bewitch us with taste, texture and aroma.

With our crushing schedules, who's got the time to dicker around in the kitchen? Let's speed the whole process up so we can spend more time in the office. Just rub that fast food on your hips and cut out the middle-man. Let's face it, that's where it's all going to end up.

Today in the western industrialised nations, we have unlimited food and drink, and a huge selection of it. When has First World mankind ever had it so good in the food department?

We've got those endless Pollyanna government departments nannying us to make sure we don't get poisoned, conned, lied to, or choke on our own tongue. Yet, what happens to us? We're poisoned, conned, lied to, and get to choke on our own tongue too as a bonus.

Perhaps the obscene irony of where we've arrived as a culture today is that, while millions starve in poorer countries for want of basic sustenance, clean water and shelter, the leading killers flooring us in the First World are actually starvation-related diseases, like heart disease, cancer and stroke.

Out of sight, out of mind

Few members of the public actually consider what their food is doing to them. It's been said that a man will be obstinate and not believe the extent to which the western diet is contributing to his early demise but his next of kin certainly will if they are allowed to view his autopsy.

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