By Leodini
For some time now, my doctor has been telling me I have a chemical imbalance in my blood.
All this I got from my diet.
The foods we eat may give us nutrients today. Over time they will kill us.
That’s the awful truth.
I tremble at the thought nobody will survive life eating.
One can go to a fine-dining restaurant, put delicious food into his mouth using expensive silver utensils, and pay a wallet-busting amount for a meal. He will still die as surely as the guy who eats a P10-hamburger in a corner hamburger stand.
Why? Because those eatable, delicious, comestible stuff we call meal—either meat, vegetable, fruit, liquid, or solid form—contains poisons, bacteria, toxin, viruses, germs, artery-clogging fats, parasites, and other nondescript chemicals.
These contaminants will kill anyone, without exception. Carnivores, vegetarians, fruitarians, alcoholics anonymous and identified, ascetics, dieters, and calorie-counters—they will all succumb to their lethal servings.
Nutrients today, poison tomorrow—that’s our meals.
I can’t think any more of a food to eat that will not someday give me health problems.
I can’t eat fruit. They contain acids that will act up my hyper-acidic stomach.
I can’t eat peanuts and Baguio beans. They will raise my uric acid level.
I can’t eat vegetables like my favorite cabbage and pechay. Farmers have sprayed them with insecticides when growing them.
I can’t eat seafood. Red-tide toxin may have contaminated them.
I can’t eat pork, chicken, egg, or even dinosaur meat. They are rich in artery-hardening cholesterol.
I can’t eat greasy foods. They will make me obese.
I can’t eat raw foods, either. Raw foods contain raw parasites and raw bacteria. Yuk!
I can’t even eat crunchy bread now. I just learned bakers use processed vegetable oils to make baked goods crunchy.
Must be the reason I’m having a bad temper today.
What am I gonna eat now?
As a Filipino magician, I’m tempted to wave my wand and conjure my own healthy foods and drinks for my next meal.
Stay magical,
Leodini