The vast majority of dropouts really do not understand what is and is not properly nourishing foods.  The just can’t grasp the full meaning of the basic A, B, Cs that underscores the critical nuances of proper food selection.

• A.  Eat low glycemic foods.  High glycemic foods are foreign to body function and cause fungal issues that negatively impact the body.
• B.  Eat foods that are low in Omega-6s and high in Omega-3s, seeking a 1:1 ratio.  This 1:1 balance between Omega-6s and Omega-3s is critical for a strong immune system.
• C.  Eat nutrient dense foods, especially those that provide 100% of the nutrients needed for optimal body function. Why eat foods that do not significantly contribute to the needs of the body?

When folks do not understand all the various issues and meanings of the words in the A, B, Cs they are lost.

Do dropouts understand the meanings of glycemic indexes and glycemic loads and their implications for human health?  Do they know that all human bodies harbor fungi that react to “sugars” by spewing out mycotoxins?  Do they understand that the fungi living in our bodies are 100% organic and natural, yet some of the mycotoxins they produce are highly toxic chemicals that destroy many body functions?  Do they understand that some of these perfectly natural, organic mycotoxins are so toxic (such as aflatoxin) that they make agricultural pesticides look benign in comparison?

Do dropouts understand that most food products contribute to the Omega-3 deficiency?  Do they understand what defines an Omega-3 deficiency?  Do they understand that too much Omega-6 versus Omega-3 in the cellular makeup of a body is inflammatory?  Do they understand that the Omega-3 deficiency can result in a damaged immune system, mental disorders, aggressive tumor growth, heart disease, and is a factor in nearly all other chronic diseases both mental and physical?

Do dropouts understand that most food products do not offer even 90% of the nutrients required for optimal body function?  Do they understand that if they consume nutritionally deficient foods their bodies will be malnourished or diseased?

Perceptions Versus Facts

Dropouts usually launched on their new and better nutritional path with high hopes and enthusiasm.  What they did not realize is that learning how to eat and staying with it is a demanding task.

For starters, just to find out which foods are proper requires considerable time and effort and that is serious homework.  Quite often this takes longer than imagined.  Compounding the problem is an inability to think critically.  Most dropouts have never learned or even been exposed to critical thinking.  Knowing how to read scientific reports and evaluate the credibility of studies and commentary is totally foreign to them.  Maybe this is because so few people have any scientific training!  It’s like as if most Americans never even attended high school.  What’s this about an Atomic Table of the elements?  Right.  And if these problems aren’t enough, knowledge is dynamic.  It grows and evolves.  Nobody knows it all . . . ever.  Therefore the learning experience is like reading a book that has a few more chapters added to it at the end every day along with revisions of the prior work.

Sometimes New Year’s resolutions for dietary change are not aimed at improving one’s own health.  Instead some folks want to make social statements.  They have fallen for the marketing chants of the politically correct.  They have swallowed hook, line, and sinker the many anti-food industry myths drummed into them by movies such as Food Inc., books, articles, and broadcasts, health food store propaganda, and Internet marketing sites.  Little do they know that these sources have their own agendas that promote their goods or ideologies by condemning the efforts of others with skewed data, outright deceptions, and a reliance on the ignorance of others.  After awhile these dropouts grow weary of their cause and they revert back to their old ways.

Another large group of dropouts consists of those who have decided that they want to improve their diets.  They also need to hear the marketing propaganda that the foods they buy are more socially correct.  Real health is not the main driving force.  They just want to think they are making an effort.  They believe that by purchasing organic corn that is better than buying non-organic corn.  They believe that by replacing a few meals a week of grain-fed beef with grass-fed beef they are going to make a difference in their long-term health.  These folks eventually dropout because they are not really committed to anything; therefore they have a take-it-or-leave-it approach.  Sometimes, after they fade away, these dropouts show up again in January for another few months.

Change Is Required

Dropouts rarely understand that a perfect diet will not improve their health overnight.  Eating proper food is not the same as taking a powerful drug.  It takes time for the body to assimilate the proper balance of nutrients and “fix” its problems from within.  In addition, every deviation in the “perfect” diet causes a setback.  For instance, if one consumes high glycemic foods once a week they may never stop their body’s symptoms of disease.  The symptoms are caused by their immune system reacting to mycotoxin overloads.  It can take two weeks for a body to heal the wounds caused by a mycotoxin overload.  Because of innocent deviations (often done as a reward for several days of good effort), these dropouts conclude that because their health issues persist, diet change does not work – for them.

Dropouts are rarely supported by their families, friends, the medical community, and the society in which they live.  All too often dropouts have grown tired of being confronted with ridicule, social stigma, and pressure to conform to what the masses consider normal behavior.

Dropouts are always being enticed by medical professionals to take the quick fixes.  They swallow that concept in spite of the fact that those tactics of never ending doctor visitations, drug dependance, and operations and procedures are extremely expensive, dangerous, and usually ineffective for curing chronic diseases.  For some reason the dropouts believe the failed medical industry’s “solutions” seem better (easier?) than having the perseverance and discipline to do what it takes to change what they eat.

Yes, dropouts have to overcome the many internal and external barriers to change.  In many cases their addictions drive them.  Society drives them.  Their family and friends drive them.  The demand on their time drives them.  But without change, all the resolutions in the world are meaningless.  Without change nothing new can be accomplished.