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Perhaps Mark Twain was right when he said:

"There are two types of infinity: space and man's stupidity".

http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020132sinclair/vaccinaion.htm

Health is complicated. It isn't one thing that causes a problem. It's usually a combination.

What the heck are we eating? Are we eating ourselves sick? Dr. Mercola, Dr. Jonathon Wright, & DogtorJ relate eating grains, soy, & cow's milk to illness. DogtorJ and Dr. Richard Schulze think that illness is caused by a depressed immune system. And that bacteria and viruses are always around us. When we are really healthy, the bacteria and viruses cannot make us sick. I wanted to see if I thought Dr. Mercola, Dr. Wright, and DogtorJ were right about eating grains. I put together this timeline to look at what I think may be why were have the epidemics of modern diseases. We would like to point at one thing that caused "the" problem. but it is pretty clear that it is multiple causes from so-called modern life that are making us so sick.

American obsession with diets     Childhood vaccines & Autism   Soft Drinks, HFC, and Artificial Sweeteners

Factory/fast food - moving far away from home cooking of fresh food   Soy   Wheat/grain  Meat/Milk 

Sugar/Methanol - Obesity/Diabetes   Frankenfoods    We are guinea pigs, vaccine experiments, etc.   

Refined oils, hydrogenated fats, refined salt    What are we doing to our animals?

 

Foods

Health effect of bad food? Medicine & ? Health effect of bad medicine?

10,000 B.C.

man first started eating a crude form of flat bread - a baked combination of wheat flour and water.

herding of goats is thought to have evolved about 10,000 years ago in the mountains of Iran.

     

8,500 B.C.

wheat and barley had been domesticated in the Levant The biggest change in man's food was when he invented grain farming.   ... stores the seeds, and consumes them throughout the year.  This never occurred in nature prior to man's intervention.

     

8,000 B.C. World Disaster - Obliteration of more than 40 million animals about this time

6,700-6,500 B.C.

man ground grains with rocks

2,000- 3,000 B.C.

Egyptians made yeast-leavened breads. Since wheat is the only grain with sufficient gluten content to make a raised or leavened loaf of bread, wheat quickly became favored over other grains grown at the time, such as oats, millet, rice, and barley.

     

1552 B.C.

 Egypt, cereal foods formed the main backbone of their diet from the predynastic period onward.

 

Egypt... honey was used by the rich for a sweetener, but was probably too expensive for the poor.

... many statues and pictures of ancient Egyptians who are well overweight.

Earliest known record of diabetes mentioned on 3rd Dynasty Egyptian papyrus

In their embalming process, the ancient Egyptians used a mixture of substances, including methanol, which they obtained from the pyrolysis of wood.  

1100 B.C 

Soy did not become human food until late in the Chou Dynasty (1134-246 B.C.),miso.

500 B.C.

Roman Empire, Cloaca Maxima (big sewer) is built in Rome by Etruscan dynasty of Tarquins. As Rome grows, a network of cloacae (sewers) and aquaducts are built.

 

process known for creating sugar, by pressing out the juice and then boiling it into crystals, was developed in India around 500 BC.

  First antibiotic: moldy soybean curds used to treat boils (China).  

350 BC

Antiphanes writes about commercial baking with sifted flour

     

150 B.C.

Wheat - First bakers' guilds were formed in Rome.

Tofu came after miso. Legend has it that, in 164 B.C., Its most popular use was-and is-as a few bland little blocks in miso soup or fish stock.

65 B.C.

Norse water mills working in Asia 

     

542 to 767 A.D.

Use of coffee is known in Arabia

     

1180 - 1190

Windmills began to appear in Europe 

1104 to 1110 AD

natto and tempeh, entered the food supply around 1000 A.D.

 

plague killed more than 90% of Europeans 1100s  Variolation (inoculation with live virus) for smallpox first reported in China  

1150 A.D.

refined white bread was used by the Church and the surplus sold to the nobility while the poor people ate dark bread

1388

 

  Parliament passes an act forbidding the throwing of filth and garbage into ditches, rivers and waters. City of Cambridge also passes the first urban sanitary laws in England.  

1553

Beck's Beer

1559

Tobacco introduced to Europe

1587

Introduction of potatoes to England

1611

European dairy cows arrived in America in 1611

1650

Coffee brought to England about this time

1662

Tea introduced to Britain

     

1690

first sugar refinery was built in New York City 

1693–1700

Climate: Oat harvest failed repeatedly in Scotland – widespread starvation

     
1704 Britain's annual per capita consumption of sugar was 4lbs in 1704      

1713

By this year there are some 3,000 coffee houses in London (They drank it with SUGAR!)

1721

Variolation introduced into Great Britain by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
1750 By 1750 there were 150 cane refineries in Britain, producing some 30,000 tons of sugar each year.  

1765

The potato becomes the most popular food in Europe

 

The first soybean plant hit North American soil. Initially, American soybeans were used to make soy sauce and soy noodles for export to England.

     

1767

Carbonated Water sold

     

1769

Diabetes mentioned in medical book

1776

first ice cream parlor opened in New York City in 1776

     

1777

Wheat was first planted in the United States - as a hobby crop.

1784

Invention of threshing machine by Andrew Meikle

     

1786

Molson beer

1790

Deep fat fryer invented

     

1791

Sugar prices rise steeply - England

     

1796

 

  Edward Jenner inoculated James Phipps with cowpox, and calls the procedure vaccination (vacca = cow, in Latin)  
1800 Britain's annual per capita consumption of sugar was 18lbs in 1800      

1803

Ice Box Invented in Maryland by Thomas Moore who named his ice box "refrigerator"

     

1809

French confectioner Nicolas François Appert invents canning

     

1812

Donkin, Hall & Gamble manufacture first canned food in London More about: canned food

     

1816

England - Economic depression - rise in wheat prices

     

1816-1947

 

 

Smallpox    

1820

World population reached 1 billion.

Saratoga Springs bottled water

Tomato is proven nonpoisonous

1831

The invention of the mechanical reaper by Cyrus McCormick made it possible to harvest wheat much more efficiently than by hand with scythes or sickles.

     

1847

Chocolate Bar - 1847 (Britain)

 

European crop failure

 

nearly all of the beef sold in America was grass-fed.

     

1852

Three quarters of all milk sold in New York in 1852 was slop milk. Slop is of little value in fattening cattle. It is unnatural food to them and makes them diseased and emaciated. But it made cows produce a lot of milk.

     

1855

Patent for powdered milk in UK More about: milk

     

1856

Condensed milk patented - 1856 (Gail Borden)

1861-1865 American Civil War

1866

production of dextrose from corn starch

 

Soy milk originated as a byproduct of the process of making tofu; the earliest reference to it as a beverage appeared in 1866.5

     

1867

Henri Nestlé created a nutritious product for infants that could be used by mothers who were unable to breast-feed.

     

1869

development of margarine by Mege Mouris in France 

1870

Compound lard introduced (mixed with veg oils), cottonseed oil used as food

 

  Louis Pasteur creates the first live attenuated bacterial vaccine (chicken cholera)  

1872

a factory, built in California, was finally able to successfully produce sugar in a profitable manner

1873

introduction of the roller miller at the World's Fair 

Between 1874 and 1884

Wheat - 5,000 Russian Mennonites settled in Kansas. They brought with them Turkey Red winter wheat.

     

1876

Budweiser beer (later becomes the 1st national brand)

Beer pasteurization

 

Premium soda crackers (later Saltines)

 

    By 1876, the birth rate in Britain began to decline from 36/1000 to less than 14/1000 in 1941, at which time the National Loaf became compulsory (85% extraction, including the germ). In the next two years, the birth rate rose to 16/1000. Vitamin E deficiency was the suspected cause, since it was believed to have something to do with human and animal reproduction, and is destroyed in the refining of flour.

1879

 

  First vaccine for cholera  

1880

Using imported concentrates of lemon and lime, Pfizer begins manufacturing citric acid. (Used in soft drinks)

 

In 1880, about 1.5 million litres of wood alcohol were produced in the USA

     

1882

refined corn sugar or anhydrous sugar first produced, Corn gluten animal feed was first manufactured 

1885

Dr. Pepper - 1885 (invention)

     

1886

Aluminum Cookware manufacture process invented - 1886 (Wear-Ever)

 

Coca Cola

     

1889

origin of the modern pizza

 

first commercial production of corn oil

     

1890

During the 1890s, the market for methanol (then better known as wood alcohol) increased as a commercial product and as a solvent for use in the workplace. It was included in many consumer products such as witch hazel, Jamaica ginger, vanilla extract and perfumes.

 

Europe started to eat relatively saturated vegetable fats, as from coconut and palm oils

  First vaccine for tetanus  

1894-1920

 

  Dr. Nathaniel Potter...  pursued research in New York on three metabolic diseases: diabetes, gout, and nephritis.  

1895

Sewage cleanup in London means the return of some fish species (grilse, whitebait, flounder, eel, smelt) to the Thames River.

 

Commercial pasteurization machines were first introduced 

     

1896

 

  First vaccine for typhoid fever  

1897

Campbell's Condensed Soup

Grape Nuts

 

 

the leading causes of death in the industrial world were infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, influenza, and pneumonia. First vaccine for bubonic plague  

1898

Pepsi Cola first sold

     

1899

Wesson oil

1900 

first vacuum packed coffee - 1900 (Hills)

 

Some experts claim that the hamburger was invented that year in New Haven, Connecticut.

Nearly a third to half of all babies born in the USA in 1900 never saw their 5th birthday. Whooping cough, dyphtheria, and both rheumatic fever and scarlet fever (strep throat gone really serious) were major killers.

A journal article, written in 1942, discusses the deterioration of the physique of the British, between the 18th century and the Boer War around 1900 (Alvarez, 1942). The most probable explanation was that they had come to depend too much on white flour and sugar, whereas their ancestors had eaten plenty of 'whole wheat flour.

   

1902

Karo corn syrup

     

1904

Iced Tea

 

Popcorn, hog dogs, ice cream cones, and peanut butter were introduced at the St. Louis World's fair.

 

Invention of Ginger Ale

     

1906

Instant coffee mass marketing

 

Corn Flakes - Kellogg Company Founding

Alzheimer's Disease Discovered    

1908

Cellophane invented - Jacques E. Brandenberger

 

1st compulsory pasteurization law in Chicago

     

1910

Brassiere - first US Patent [click here for good site about bras]

 

wood alcohol ...produced in the USA ...in 1910...over 3 million litres

 

In 1910, Americans were each eating about 210 pounds of wheat flour each year.

"bleaching flour and the evidence establishes that  nitrogen-peroxide gas was employed for that purpose and further establishes that that gas, nitrous acid, nitric acid, and nitrites of the kind which may   be produced by such treatment are poisonous and deleterious substances, and that these substances when taken in sufficient quantities will produce   poisonous action or death....its purpose evidently was to open wide the opportunities for bleaching flour and the promise that no action would be taken looking to a restriction of this process.... The result is that the millers who at first were unwilling to indulge in bleaching have been forced to bleach in order to maintain their trade ....Thus the very law which the Supreme Court has said was enacted chiefly to protect the public health has been turned into a measure to threaten public health and to defraud the purchasers of flour."

     

1911

Crisco

 

soy oil used as food

 

hydrogenated all-vegetable-oil shortenings were introduced

 

Refined salt - Anticaking agents ... are hygroscopic chemicals which absorb humidity, keeping the salt crystals from sticking together.

  “…when I graduated from medical school in 1911, I had never heard of coronary thrombosis"  

1912

The 1st self-service grocery store opened in California.

 

hamburger buns

 

Oreo Cookie

     

1913

Production of Beecham’s Pills laxative reaches one million a day

     

1914

The war in Europe affected imported pasta from Italy and because of this, The U.S. started large scale production.

 

Milk tank trucks

Nitrogen bichloride, also known as agene, was one of the earliest bleaching agents used on wheat flour. After 40 years of use, it was finally found to cause canine hysteria, and was outlawed     

1914-1918 First World War (the "Great War"

1915

Lipstick - 1915 (US manufacture in tube)

 

Processed American Cheese was introduced to American stores by J.L. Kraft and Son.

     

1916

First electric refrigerator

 

first hamburger fast-food chain was White Castle 

     

1917

Mascara and Colored Powder (Helena Rubinstein)

 

"The effects of drinking caffeine on an empty stomach and in a free state are far more dangerous than drinking an equal quantity of caffeine wrapped up with tannic acid in tea and coffee." From court records re: Coca Cola

  Cholera vaccine

Typhoid vaccine (parenteral)

 

1919

Homogenized milk sold successfully

  The deadly "Spanish Flu" that killed 675,000 Americans in 1918-1919 was caused by VACCINATIONS!! Beginning in 1911, vaccinations were mandatory for U.S. military personnel. A lot of the dead were soldiers preparing to go overseas to fight the enemy abroad.  

1920

Max Factor Makeup - 1920s (era of starting popularity)

 

During the 1920s and 1930s ...Other methods for making acetic acid and methanol became cheaper.

 

The 1920s witnessed a "plastics craze", as the use of cellophane sp