Some statistics I got to know recently:
1. 1 in 9 people or 11% are expected to get cancer
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36510887/
2. 10-15% of couples in India have infertility issues
3. In US, the age of first menstruation has reduced by over 4 years compared to history from 16 to 12 years. One of the reasons stated is higher estrogen release due to effect of ingestion of micro plastics.
4. Obesity and heart disease is on the increase everywhere.
The health issues trends we are seeing are not encouraging as a society.
The attitudes, the priorities, the marketing of non-sense things have eaten up the upcoming generation wholly, and a huge part of the existing working generation. The retired generation was only partially affected by this.
However, our granparents generation are least affected by it as at that time, there wasn't that much communication and marketing. They lived on basic, healthy and sustainable things unlike the future generations where contamination started.
What kinds of contamination?
1. Food - from natural to genetically modified, excess use of pesticides and fertilizers, harmones and antibiotics in farmed animals, synthetics and colours.
2. Drinks and beverages - chemical concoctions as carbonated drinks, excess drinking by people, a lot of things being consumed in plastics enabling ingestion of microplastics (from tea bags, cool drinks, etc)
3. Promoting Immediate gratification with negative effects versus over long term gratification with real benefits.
4. Pharma Businesses buying out the researches and giving bad advice and concocting grand schemes to make more money.
5. Fake news confusing everyone.
In these kinds of times, it is best to adopt philosophies on food, health, items from not this generation but from what our grandparents had used as they were pure, raw and uncontaminated.
