Invest for your Health

The adage “We are what we eat” always proves true. 20 years back, yes! Now, not anymore!

Today, if we eat junk, well end up being junkies without realizing our dreams of growing old together, of spending our dream honeymoon in the Moon when the first space tourism gateway is opened. On the other limb, if we eat healthy foods, we are still not guaranteed of a perfect health and we may just end up landing in the hospital - - and worst, dead before the usual average age for dying.

This leads us to question how healthy is healthy? Actually, nobody knows. We keep on digging molecular components of elements, excavating quarks from quarks, designing DNA, engineering basic components of nature and yet we are still empty handed in providing a good nutritious diet for everyone. We rely much on our knowledge to defeat my grandmother’s motto, “Organic Gardening will keep you coming home.” As a result, we design GMOs, diversified species, imported new breeds, and created new organisms just to provide the increasing demand of humanity for a healthy food – again, to no avail.

In a country as erratic as the Philippines, you can’t help but wonder whether an average man will last beyond 70 years. Given that our presumed healthy diet (gulay, gulay at gulay) is slowly pervaded by McDo and Jollibee along seasoning mixes from Knorr, Maggi and the Nam Nam Nam (don’t know the brand), there’s no wonder why people at a very young are contacted with sickness - which, in stricter sense, could only be felt by older individuals twenty years ago.  These food companies have exploited our gullible minds through their propagandas/ads for us to buy their product because theirs is good, healthy, fulfilling and cool. Someday, I wouldn't be surprised if these companies are conglomerates with big hospitals, investing in stem cell research and eugenics, making people's sickness healthy for their business.

Foods are slowly defining the time-line for our precious life. They create sickness, they fashion genetic anomaly that will one day take you aback when  you see your  eldest male child  suddenly learn to imitate Barbie more than Lionel Messi. Well, whether we last longer or not, or we remain humans or deteriorate into primeval apes, that’s all up to what kind of food we take. After all, it’s always our choice. I just hope that we should invest for our health, the way multi-junky companies are investing for our illness. Hehehe.