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Food – we love it. But it is making us fat and sick and growing it is destroying the soils and planet on which we all depend.

What has gone wrong and what do we do about it?

Some experts say it is because we eat too much so we should eat less and exercise more. Other experts say it is our modern food with too much fat and sugar.

The truth is so simple that no one believes it.
Our bodies have evolved to have an intelligent control system which says stop eating when you are full.

Across the globe we are suffering from an epidemic of chronic or non infectious diseases. Three out of four people die prematurely from a chronic disease. The social and economic costs are massive stretching our medical resources to the limit and at high cost.

We know that these chronic diseases are caused but the wrong fat in the wrong place and it is widely assumed that this is because we are eating too much sugary fatty foods – the calorie balance theory.

While it is true that we do have to consume an excess of sugary fatty foods this is not the cause. How much and where we store fat is decided by our intelligent control system which regulates our bodies. The microbes in our gut are an integral part of out intelligent control system regulating our appetite and immune system.

Our bodies have an intelligent control system which regulates our bodies, particularly our appetite and immune system.

Our gut is an integral part of this control system. If we have the right blend of species in our gut we can expect a long and healthy life, if we have a poor blend of species we get fat and sick.

We teach how to grow plants as pre and pro-biotics. That is the easy bit, understanding and applying the science of breeding beneficial microbes in a special soil, Wickimix largely made from organic and rock dust, and using the principle of Eco balance to create the condition so the beneficial microbes out-breed the harmful microbes.

We are in the midst of an epidemic of chronic diseases, overweight, diabetes, heart attacks and dementia.
They say eat less exercise more but that does not work.
Our gut-brain is part of our intelligent control system which regulates our appetite.
Our modern food system no longer feeds our gut-brain so we have to switch from the calorie balance paradigm to the intelligent control paradigm.
Changing paradigms is always a bloody affair with vested interest this will be particularly bloody.
The article ‘Community Health’ tells the story of this particularly bloody battle.

Jenny, one of our Gbiota members asked a simple question. I am told that my answer is one of the most important articles on how to sustainably grow healthy food and combat the epidemic of chronic disease so I have made this available for public viewing under the creative Commons system – it can be copied and reproduced without further permission, just acknowledgement of source www.gbiota.com