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Nature replicates her sacred geometry, and everything is connected. Our inner and outer environments are inseparable. If we pollute the soil, we contaminate our food and body. If the soil is deficient, our food will be inferior, and our health will suffer.
The causes of all diseases are deficiencies, toxins, or trauma. Sometimes, it can be a combination of two or more of these. Over 54% of American children suffer from chronic diseases. The only way to stop this decline and heal the body, mind, and spirit is to address the cause of these diseases.
This leads us to look into how our food is grown and what chemicals are in food production, our environment, homes, schools, and public places.
Current studies show that regulatory agencies set up with our tax dollars to protect us and our children have failed miserably because of special interests and corruption. Hence, we are all harmed by massive amounts of GMOs, cancer-causing, endocrine-disrupting pesticides, herbicides, and other toxic chemicals.
Babies in the womb and future generations are the most vulnerable. The horrific birth defects in Vietnam, Laos, and other SE Asia areas, where the military sprayed Agent Orange (paraquat) to defoliate the jungles, are good examples of the consequences of abuses of power and soil/water degeneration. We now have fracking and PFAS/PFOS contaminating our soil and groundwater.
Making matters worse, people continue to destroy the soil around their homes by killing their weeds with well-known toxic cancer-causing and endocrine-disrupting sprays!
This SSU/RI-RA course changed how I look at and deal with weeds and nourish the soil around my home and in my pots. While I did not use toxic chemical sprays to kill weeds, I laboriously removed them by hand. However, nature put them there for a reason. So now, I will cut most of them off at the ground level instead. Roots and decomposed biomass feed the soil just as grass cuttings do. Instinctively, whenever I cut off dead flowers, I put them back into the soil around the plants. Plus, I use worm castings instead of fertilizer.
In a rainforest or jungle, dead leaves and branches fall to nourish the soil as part of nature’s recycling system for new life to thrive.
by Lady Carla Davis, MPH
Specializing in Nutrition