The Neglected Importance of Health

Hello there, its been a while, but here I am. I've been pondering lately on the real importance of living a healthy life opposite to what the system offers us. For The Matrix, health beens a good hospital system or pharmaceuticals that will fix us up after we've wasted our bodies indulging in the vain pleasures in life, besides awfully bad food we consume. Good food, is basically any food that is good for our taste buds regardless of the consequences of eating such foods. As a matter of fact, economy also comes in, because the lesser the quality of the the cheaper it is hence people with low resources either eat really bad food or nothing at all. So this has become a complex problem, and we see in the recent years that us humans a re so susceptible to more diseases, and more ailments and maladies spring up everywhere. Not only in the form of viruses, such as EBOLA, AIDS, SARS, H1N1 Bird Flu, etc.; but also in the form of obesity, cancer, high blood pressure, etc.
We live in a system in which our society indulges us to consume products that are bad to our health, for example a bottle of beer is more "tasty" than a glass of water, even though its the contrary. Or a big hamburger made out of whatever type of meat seems more delicious than a salad or even a sandwich made with organic food. As the matter of fact, the term organic food has been included in publicity and in the public opinion since we are surrounded by synthetic foods, GMO crops, imitations of meat or any other industrial concoction sold to us as a refreshing pr nutritional supplement to our diet. So as time passes, the system gradually makes us weaker and weaker and weaker with all the intoxicating pleasures, such as alcohol, tobacco, drugs, pills, or anything that springs up in the apparent "fascinating" world of self-destruction. We think that weakness only comes in the form of undernourishment we see in documentaries of food crises in third world countries or UNICEF post cards or anywhere else. Thats just the same concept developed by the MATRIX taken to the extreme, there you see three of the many spearheads designed to inflict misery and despair on humanity taken to an exponential level:
1)Economy
2) Bad Environmental Conditions
3) Bad Health

And of course there are many other factors involved in such human catastrophes but in a general sense we can outline those three, which are quite visible on the other side of the spectrum. In wealthy countries and we could add wealthy households (even in developing nations), we see the same factors only in different scopes. For example a person living on such commodities generally does not worry about the consequences of his excesses (actually almost everyone since we are blinded from the truth) and indulges himself or herself greatly creating a market for excess and also becomes increasingly dependent on others since that individual produces little from the earth itself or in some cases some of his own products but is not 100% independent. On the other hand this person relies on health insurance to cure future ailments despite all the pain and suffering this might bring. On the other hand his/her consumism only promotes the destruction of the environment in the name of development and globalized market economies and whatever else you want to name it. It can be Global Warming, Green House Gases, Destruction of water supply, soil erosion, you name it, all of this comes together. Afterwards we have human beings, no matter if rich or poor that has a shorter productive life span. Sure there are people, who live a hundred years or reach 80, but these people stopped being productive to their societies long time ago, mostly they are on welfare, even though they might more capable than many young people in important tasks. When you reach a certain age, all those greasy meals, coke bottles, chips filled with artificial flavors and colorants (and recently GMO foods), chemicals disguised as medicines, all of this slowly accumulating through our lives; in the process of time , your body pays the bill even if you don't want to. Our lifestyles is set on the path of self-destruction, to the point that who are advocate for consuming organic products, advocating for preemptive health, advocating for healthy meals, are seen as lunatics, or vegetarian extremist. In some countries, there is the belief that if your are a little fat and eat what everybody eats, even if its crap, you are a healthy person. All of this since a certain lifestyle is imposed on us. A lifestyle that brings, physical weakness, unnecessary pain and suffering. I'm not saying that becoming vegetarian is the solution or stop eating, what I'm saying is that our bodies, especially in the inside, is a very important part of an individual as it is the spirit and the soul. It’s the vessel which our souls and our spirits live in and we must take care of that vessel so that in the passing of time we do not suffer. It’s far better to prevent than to suffer and be filled with grievous lamentations.
How it is that nature exists with no purpose? How is it that in antiquity a man lasted far more many years than today with our modern science and medicine? How is it that with today's high yields in agricultural production we are weak or undernourished? We have all what we need in nature, that’s an indisputable fact. But the MATRIX tells that inside the supermarket our human industries have come up with the solution to our hunger. The Matrix tells us that with the traditional dishes (some cases not all of them) filled grease and based only on flavor we shall abide in a healthy path. Even those traditional dishes have been degraded. The famous hamburger for example in fast food chains is not even cooked with real meat and real oil, but with transfat oils, lab made meat and GMO vegetables. Everywhere we look around we see an enormous offer in food: chicken, sushi, beef, salads, sea food, pork chops, pizza, pasta. etc. Yet the ones that is really good for our bodies we count with our fingers and in some cases is more expensive than the things can eventually kill you. Such is our lifestyle that when start tasting healthy food or beverages, we despised them, the taste for use is repugnant since our bodies have been fed with what we thought was the fat of the land and in reality is the toxins of the system.
Even in nature we find unhealthy trends, such as unclean animals, and they are unclean not only for religious reasons, but mostly because they have unclean habits or eat unclean things. So if we eat something that consumes filth eventually we will consume its filth. Some argue that if you put them in a an isolated farm and feed them "clean food" you will cleanse such creature. Well confining them into a quarantined are won't change the nature of the creature, the rat won't stop being a rat if its in a sterile laboratory unless of course they do some DNA freak experiments, but that’s another issue. For example high consumption of sea food brings some complications in health such as high uric acid and other ailments since mollusks act as water filters in nature, just to mention an example. Besides even if pork is kept in a specialized farm, you have take consideration of the meals it eats, where does animal food come from. The industrial complex usually makes animal food from left over’s of shrimp production and recently the vegetable part come from dangerous GMO crops. And the effects on the long run of these practices are unlikely to be foreseen. Or even chicken is highly fed with growth hormones to meet production rates, all of this adds up and we see people suffering of strange diseases or suffering things usual of older ages. So in conclusion, our lifestyle, is based on a biased concept of health or in shorter terms: a lie to gradually weaken and kill us. We do not care for tomorrow, we take health for granted; we think that health care is for the sick only. The idea of preventing diseases is seen from afar. We must take care of our bodies, our bodies are an integral part of our individuality. The outside is meaningless if YOU will eventually rot from the inside, and what happens the outside degrades itself. Most importantly, like I've said before, the most important thing in life is to fulfill our purpose, to leave a mark before we die, not only live, work reproduce and die. WE ARE NOT INSECTS, even though others might see us as such. We have to leave a mark in the history of our lives, and taking care our inside is fundamental for that. So lets start taking care of our bodies, love ourselves and become selfless servers of the betterment of our fellow humans. May the light of the truth shine for ever over the darkness of deceit.