GLC 2 Listening & Speaking – 3 Minute Speech

Subject:  effects of western malnutrition

What is degenerated food

almost all foodstuffs you can buy today are somehow devalued, this is done is several ways:
destruction of essential ingridients by heating the product (to make them perishable)
by adding chemicals to make the product look / smell / taste better

Weißmehl

The foundation of degenerated food is white flour. This is wheat flour from which the bran and wheatgerm have been removed. Industrialization made it possible to produce large amounts of flour but unchanged flour quickly started to rotten which was cause by chemical reactions in the wheatgerm. So this part was sifted out, which was quite easy because it was bigger than the starch core. Hence white flour consists only of starch and nothing else. Like in an apple the hull of the grain contains a large part of the vitamine and trace elements.
Later the scientist Dr med Werner Kollath performed a lot of animal experiments in which he fed the animals only with white flour. All of these animals died within 4 to 6 weeks. They did not die when fed with wholemeal flour.
T L Cleave and S D Cambell later had similar findings: they investigated the health of Indian immigrants in South Africa (who had white flour products as a nutrition basis) and the health of their relatives in India (who did not eat white flour products). Their discovery: western food played an essential role for illnesses like diabetes, cardiac infarction, obesity, stomach- and duidenumulcers, varicose veins, periodentosis, tooth decay and a lot of incureable diseases.


Examples: rolls out of the can, to have “fresh” food in the morning
  all sorts of manipulated drinks (additional sweetener), not 100% juices, especially  Coca Cola and its derivates
  soups out of the bag
  frozen foods

Why is this food a threat towards health

using degenerated food as every day meal causes the body to suffer from a lack of certain vitamine and trace elements which are required for great variety of processes in the human body. This manifests itself in a lot of illnesses like for examples a chronic exhaustion or a periodically reappearing lack of concentration.
But there is another way by which western food harms the body: by flooding it with enormous amounts of certain substances like sugar (this causes not only tooth decay but is also a serious threat towards metabolism).

Chemicals with undiscovered longterm effects

Of course the grocerie industry always says they are harmless but they want to sell these products so what else could they say?
One well-known chemical with controversial longterm effects is Aspartam aka E951 (E stands for essbar or edibl). Cola Light contains Aspartam as a sweetener and many other as sugar-free marked products contain Aspartam. Aspartam is considered to cause states of anxiety if consumed together with candy. Sensitive humans could suffer of daze, amnesia, impaired vision and allergic reaktions. Hey and tastes awful anyway.
Another one of these widespread chemicals is Glutamat aka E620. Glutamat is considered to cause allergies and a sickness name the “China Restaurant Syndrom” (head ache and a stiff neck). Glutamat is contained in many ready-to-serve meals which only need to be boiled and it deceives our sense of taste: products of inferior quality are perceived as being delicious. By animal experiments Glutamat was proven to cause errors in reproduction.

regulary consumption semiluxury food

There are many semiluxury foods which are today part of our daily intake. Alcoholic drinks, candy, chocolate and coffee may only be some of them. In fact everyone knows theyre unhealthy but its hard to resist and I think only a few people consciously think about the effects on their health.

Todays dimensions

According to a survey by Statistisches Bundesamt Deutschland 37 % of all German citizens have a BMI between 25 and 30. 13 % have a BMI greater than 30. A value between 20 and 25 is considered “normal”. If my BMI was 30 I would weight about 240 pound or 120 kg.
Results of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 1999–2000 indicate that an estimated 64 percent of U.S. adults are either overweight or obese, defined as having a body mass index (BMI) of 25 or more.

quo vadis

So who profits from these developments? At first one tends to think that the grocerie industry is exploiting human naivety by selling them food of inferior quality which had been cheaply produced and then resells at high profits but by having a closer look at the effects of this malnutrition you can detect that the pharma industry is really making big money. Theyre selling medicine for diseases which are caused by western malnutrition, of course none of these foods have been offically proven to cause illnesses but there are enough indications like for example the numbers which I've mentioned earlier. Moreover there are a lot of other interesting statistics which show that the health in developing countries changes when western foods were imported: suddenly tooth decay appears besides some other small diseases and guess what, suddenly the pharma industry appears and offers some pills and injections, of course not for free.


Conclusion

We are left to our own fate concerning our health and I hope everyone of you will think twice before eating at McDonalds, Burger King or whatsoever and if you have some Cola at home and dont want to drink it anymore, dont throw it away or give it to someone else, you can as well use it to clean your toilet, I never did it myself but I've read on the internet that it works great. thanx