Philippines Is Becoming So Dirty.

The importance of Pinoy Health is to give awareness on what we need to do in the kind of environment that we live in. Philippines is so dirty, just look at Pasig River!!! The fact is we live in a toxic country and a toxic planet. Much of the information I am sharing is coming from the book, How To Survive On A Toxic Planet. Unfortunately, we do live in a toxic planet and that is really not new news.

Stress, Chemicals, Toxins, Pollutants. There have been over 75,000 chemicals that was introduced to the environment since 1930 yet only 8% of those chemicals was tested for the safety in humans. Another interesting fact is chemicals have been found in the fat tissues of penguins in Antarctica... Chemicals originating from Texas. It was said however, these chemicals never left Texas. So chemicals are everywhere, they can travel. So if the penguins have them in Antarctica, what do you think is inside you?

Our air quality is bad, over 60% of Americans live in cities where the air is so bad, it actually affects their health. One example is if you are running for 30 minutes in the city of Los Angeles, California, the oxidative stress is equivalent to smoking a pack of cigarettes. Talk about premature aging... What kind of Healthy Living are you doing when you exercise and prematurely age at the same time... If that is the kind of statistics happening in the USA, imagine what kind of environmental stress our people are facing right here in the Philippines and in China.

The soil is bad. Over 50% of the United States farm land is virtually sterile, there are no nutrients to feed the plant so they have a huge problem in the food chain (this is due to the lack of soil rotation which also happens worldwide including Philippines). See, the way nature is designed, the plant takes up all the nutrients from healthy soil and delivers those nutrients to the fruit at the vine ripening stage. Nutrients are delivered especially to the skin of the fruit to protect it from the harsh rays of the sun. Then we eat the fruit. (That is how we get our nutrients, nutrients our bodies need: the tools so the body can heal, repair and rejuvenate itself).

Our tap water is bad also, traces of pharmaceutical drugs is found in our tap water. It's not there intentionally, but it's there. Yuck! Solution for better health is Filtered Water, but beware, some stuff can't be filtered out.

Then, our Food.. Yup, it's bad too. We have genetically modified fruits and veggies. One fact I learned in College is that strawberries has a fish gene in it. See, fish is susceptible to cold waters and in order to grow a crop longer into the season, through the process of gene splicing, they put a fish gene in our strawberries. Mango trees are fed hormones in the soil to produce mangos all year round. We have hormone filled milk and meat. Organic? Well, it just means no pesticides but it does have a slightly higher nutrient content because it is still green harvested. What is the solution? Stop eating!? No! Give our bodies support because ultimately, it is the human body that fixes itself, just feed it the tools, the nutrients.

For all of us Pinoy's and Pinay's, this information has given us some important truths and we can't escape this epidemic, however, there are ways through it. Support your body and your body will support you!