WHAT IS MORE DANGEROUS? COCA COLA OR AL QAEDA ?

 Since the 1980s, in the USA, obesity and diseases related to that have been on the increase. Despite the enormous amount of money spent on TREATMENT (Americans are less interested in PREVENTION), the morbidity and mortality shows no decline.

They have successfully exported their way of eating to many countries wanting to imitate the USA and thus now, India is the Diabetes Capital, China soon will be Obesity Capital and no one is spared, even poor little Cambodia.

Yuval is a public intellectual and an influential thinker. I hold him in high esteem and almost prophetic, in a curious way, Bob Marley was a prophet.  (Listen to Bob singing, War). Yuval is thinking of a time in the future which all of us have to prepare.

In yogic way of thinking, You are your own worst enemy, can be applied to what is happening now. People are killing themselves, in a slow suicide, with the choice of their food. 

When the quality of nutrition in the USA began to decline, the vulnerable, either physiological or socioeconomical, began to suffer first. None of the Indigenous people were overweight or obese before intense contact with the European settlers in the early part of the 20th Century: Diabetes, Hypertension and other diseases that "civilization" brought them were unknown.

I remember an Indigenous elder telling me: First they poisoned us, now they are poisoning themselves.

In a very short period of time, the obesity began spreading upwards along the socio economical status. Now the majority of Americans are overweight or Obese.

Who can forget my good friend Georgia G from the HCank people, who taught me so much of the wisdom of her people. She said to me: I can walk into the Indian Health Clinic and get lots of Anti Cholesterol medicine, anti Kidney disease medicine etc etc, but I cannot get advise or any help with FOOD that is causing these diseases among us. 

During this period of isolation due to Covid, I have had the chance to comfort a lot of my friends around the world. Here the Eastern Philosophy had helped me. The source of your unhappiness is within you, Be Humble, Be Grateful, Be Compassionate, to make yourself and to make others happy.

But in the developed world, people are slowly killing themselves. This generation of Americans will not live as long as their parents, thanks to Spiritual, Emotional and Physical Disruption of their lives which are so interrelated.

I will ask them to read Omar Khayyam of Nishapur, 11th Century

Oh, threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise!
One thing at least is certain — This Life flies;
One thing is certain and the rest is Lies;
The Flower that once has blown for ever dies.

HERE IS ANOTHER ONE OF HIS VERSES:

“Hell and heaven are in heaven,” say the bigots.
Having looked into myself, I was convinced of the lie:
Hell and heaven are not circles in the palace of the universe,
Hell and heaven are two halves of the soul.

DO not return to Dust for the wrong reason

Take care of yourself, your inner self first 

Be Humble, Be Grateful, Be Compassionate

When you are balanced inside, enjoy being in the present

and everything else would follow..