American trade tariffs are endangering decades of breakthroughs in the global food industry as sky rocking food prices is pushing billions below the bread line.

 

Trade war is believed to be one of the deadliest of them all. The most vulnerable of the world population: children, pregnant women, the elderly, lower and average income families have been brutally hit as their house baskets have vigorously declined.

 

Latest statistics on World hunger, published on March the 11th 2025 by The Global Hunger Index sends shivers down our spine:

 

• “The world produces enough food to feed all of its 8 billion people, yet 733 million people (1 in 11) go hungry every day.

 

• Half of all child deaths are linked to malnutrition.

 

• 9 million people die from hunger-related causes every year.

 

 

• Hunger rates in Africa are especially high, with 1 out of 5 people going hungry each day.

 

 

• 8 billion people around the world (35% of the global population) cannot afford a healthy diet.

 

 

• That percentage is even higher in low-income countries, where 71.5% of people cannot afford a healthy diet. 

 

 

• According to the 2024 Global Hunger Index, hunger levels in 36 countries are ranked as Serious.”

 

Global Hunger Index (GHI) gives us both a snapshot of current world hunger facts and figures, as well as a look at where we have (and have not) made progress, and what needs to change to get us closer to ensuring food security for all.

 

According to Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of The United Nations statistics:

 

“Each day, 25,000 people, including more than 10,000 children, die from hunger and related causes. Some 854 million people worldwide are estimated to be undernourished, and high food prices may drive another 100 million into poverty and hunger.”

 

 

Market chaos is triggering and engineering man-made shortages: goods from agriculture, are to face additional customs duties due to the high tariffs. 

 

 

Farmers, who are the backbone of the world economy will struggle to afford the cost of Agri-Business supplies

 

such as: machinery, baler, mowers, hay rakes… let alone the seeds, food, fertilisers, pesticides, herbicides and other farming products.

 

 

 

The difference between being able to eat or not to eat, to survive, or to die will be a very thin line.

 

 

US Official’s balance sheet in the Oval Office in brief, since President Donal J. Trump’s re-election on January the 25^th 2025 at the White House.

 

 

As soon as he joined the Executive Office for the second time as the President of the United States, from the West Wing of the White House in Washington D.C, Mr Trump started methodically and gradually his program to dismantle human rights via a set of new laws he was prompt to implement.

 

Increasing by so doing the already existent severe gap between the poor and the ultra-rich. Creating by so doing a never-ending generational manufactured poverty.

 

 

And what if the 90 days pause of unorthodox counter – tariffs is being used by Mr Trump as a “Trojan Horse”? A subterfuge in trade war strategy.

 

 

And what if the 90 days pause of unorthodox counter – tariffs is being used by Mr Trump as a “Trojan Horse”?

 

A subterfuge in trade war strategy: that provides plenty of time to the wealthiest worldwide to purchase and stock enough food and goods at their convenience.

 

Just 3 months to metaphorically, like a rattlesnake strike back with more extensive, gigantic complex trade deals that will bleed the lower class of the world population dry.

 

These crashes cause a spectrum clash as whilst the wealthy will just stock up the goods as if we were in times of dire critical warfare, the poor on the other hand -powerless, will scavenge and die of starvation and hunger.

 

In Greek mythology, the Trojan Horse was a wooden horse said to have been used by the Greeks as a fake reconciliation gift to celebrate the end of the war during the Trojan War to enter the city of Troy and win the war.

 

 

Did you Know?

 

 

The future outlook of the Pyramid of Global Wealth Distribution forecast that “By 2027, global wealth is estimated to reach $629 trillion.”

 

According to Oxfam, “World’s top 1% own more wealth than 95% of humanity and the top 1% own 43% of all global financial assets.”

 

 

Mr Trump’s war on universities 

 

Last summer, President Trump said: “I will fire the radical left accreditors that have allowed our colleges to become dominated by Marxist maniacs and lunatics.”.

 

Nurturing as a result of that, an extreme dependency culture due to the gradual degradation of society. His new laws put the ban on diversity initiatives, cutting of all universities funding and government aid.

 

 

By targeting international students, and dismantling the accreditation system, he caused an educational crash and mass migration.

 

Ambitious parents, and students, stripped of their freedom and right to education were forced to move from America to several other countries to carry on with their degrees and professional courses or research programs.  

 

Mr Trump’s war on healthcare

 

Following University cuts, President Trump has frozen all foreign assistance: all healthcare aid plans have been stopped and frozen whether it be for AIDS, cancer and several others.

Hence causing a medical crash and crisis as people are no longer able to access healthcare in America (unless they are wealthy).

 

President Trump’s administration has cancelled funding for an ongoing 30-year, nationwide study tracking patients with prediabetes and diabetes.

 

Researchers said that this could have dire consequences due to the intrinsic link between the decline in health care due to their officials having emphasised their ambition to curb the decline of such chronic conditions surging.

 

President Trump’s administration has cancelled a myriad of grants to study how to prevent new HIV infections and expand access to care, killing progress towards eliminating the epidemic in the United States and by ricochet worldwide – scientists say.

 

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is reported to have terminated more than 145 grants related to researching advancements in HIV.

 

Termination of more than 145 grants will wipe out decades of progress towards eliminating epidemics – scientists say. The list goes on.

 

 

Mr Trump’s war on food supply chains – a catalyst that nurtures the final conflict of extreme hunger

 

 

After the decline in both education and healthcare, to finish off any chance of mankind savouring one last glimmer of hope to survive, Mr Trump’s administration has now torn that away due to the tariffs imposed economically on import and export products.

 

Therefore, the socio-political reliance, hypocrisy and dependency culture surfaces as society falls back on the same government people voted and criticised.

 

Is Mankind doomed to fail despite medical, technology and social sciences breakthroughs? How much have we learnt from past experience misfortunes? 

 

 

The most alarming with human society regarding the power hierarchy or dynamic is that:  

 

Once someone has the upper hand and bleeds the lower class dry, the lower class will do anything for a piece of bread.

 

 

And doing anything then leads to disruption and thus the integration of all sorts of crimes surface as a survival instinct within society and economic evolution.

 

This will cause revolution and rioting. Maintaining tyranny in power will continuously create a cycle of dependency until an irreversible mistake will result in wiping out that society as in erase it from earth.

 

 

When people are hungry, it awakens the monster and the beast in them. Even Emile Zola’ soul will be shocked beyond the grave. He depicted this in his famous novel Germinal centuries ago!

 

Extreme hunger and misery are knocking at people’s doors.

 

 

If a handful of good hearted ultra-rich humans, such as: those who have not shut down their humanity,  some Non-Governmental Organisations, Officials or governments, decisions makers worldwide….

 

If collectively they do not act swiftly with effective laws, aids and budgets to alleviate human hunger worldwide, history will inevitably and unfortunately repeat itself and we will live in our 21^st century era, the misery depicted by Emile Zola in his powerful novel Germinal (1885).

 

Germinal takes its name from a spring month in the French Republican Calendar.

 

Throughout Germinal, (the 13th novel, was ranked as the best in Zola’s 20-volume Les Rougon-Macquart series Novels).

 

 

Zola uses the metaphor of spring and growth to show a different kind of political engagement.

 

He portrays greed and altruism, bravery and ambition, the cost of love, justice, and the tragedy of human suffering.

 

Zola’s masterpiece was in regards to exposing the inhuman conditions of miners in France in the 1860s. An era of rapid industrialisation and growing class tensions between wealthy mine owners and impoverished workers.

 

 

The novel follows a young worker who joins a mining community and successfully leads a strike against pay cuts.

 

Despite his unfortunate failure in the end, his belief in struggling for a better world remains unbreakable.

 

Poverty in Germinal is present in human relationships; everyone exploits everyone else namely through Emil Zola’s choice of character portrayals throughout the novel.

 

Maigrat (the grocery shop owner) forces women to bring him their daughters if they want him to give them free food to pay later.

 

Jeanlin continuously bullies, ill-treats and exploits Lydie and Bébert by never giving them a fair share, after forcing them to do silly things and commit petty thefts for him.

 

As a human, starving your kind to death, enslaving people who are ready to do anything for a loaf of bread and a beverage… to escape hunger to get wealthier, is not noble. It does not make you richer: It rather impoverishes and deprives your soul, stripping you of natural augustness which all humans should be inclined to practice.

 

 

Below are a few MUST HAVE superfoods to boost your immune system in order to survive the hunger crisis that awaits us and has already creeped its way into societies households. 

 

 

As a reminder, The Bridge Magazine only provides it readers with real life newsworthy factual based, health related and constructive human life editorial advice.

 

All humans are different: with different genes, different skin colours and tones, different blood lines, different age ranges, different bone structures, different blood types, different health history board cards, different Body Mass Indexes (BMI) hence why our DNA. There is as much DNA as humans exist.

 

For that reason, for dietary / health related personal or Family Health Tree specific advice, do not hesitate to seek advice from a Health care Professional or an Accredited Practicing Dietitians (APDs).

 

Reliance on Superfoods to tackle hunger, prevent and fight infections and strengthen our immune system is of paramount importance as President Trump’s war on global health care raises concern.

 

Pulling the US out of the World Health Organization, raises questions about the UN agency’s ability to fight diseases and respond to emergencies worldwide without the United Stated of America who are its biggest funder.

 

According to The Medical Online Dictionary, the Human Immune System is “A complex network of cells, tissues, organs, proteins and the substances they make that, help the body fight infections and other diseases, whilst protecting the body’s own cells.

 

The immune system includes white blood cells and organs and tissues of the lymph system, such as the thymus, spleen, tonsils, lymph nodes, lymph vessels, and bone marrow […] The immune system keeps a record of every germ (microbe) it has ever defeated so it can recognise and destroy the microbe quickly if it enters the body again.”

 

 

The Medical Online Dictionary also describes superfood in these words:

 

“The term “superfood” is a fairly new term referring to foods that offer maximum nutritional benefits for minimal calories.

They are packed with vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. No standard criteria or legal definitions classify any food as a superfood at this time. However, most superfoods are plant-based.”

 

As previously published in several of our successful articles and books: Mother Nature is the most talented artist of them all.

 

Mother Nature remains the most talented artist. This is almost a leitmotif at The Bridge Magazine.

 

 

Health is and remains humanities most valuable asset- Eating SUPERFOODS can dramatically reinforce your immune system and reverse the signs of ageing, experts reveal.

 

In your food shopping list, please ensure to include, at least 3 of the following superfood ingredients that you should try to eat every day.

 

Unlike what you may have been led to believe, the food they state that are killing you are in fact SURPERFOODS: (medically and scientifically proven to have health and wellbeing benefits to us).

 

Butter: Since butter is made from milk, it is classified as a dairy product.

 

 

Butter is a robust Nutrient, at the epicentre of our health.  Butter has and continues to suffer from bad PR. Wrongly accused for clogging arteries and for being high in saturated fat.

 

In Fact: Butter, especially grass-fed butter, is a source of vitamins A, D, E and K. Unless you are lactose intolerant, consuming butter in moderation can be part of a healthy diet.

 

If we dissect the vitamins within butter, we could find out how vital it is for human health and wellbeing – according to The Medical Professionals.

 

 

Vitamin A

 

Vitamin A (retinol, retinoic acid) is a nutrient vital to vision, growth, cell division, reproduction and immunity. Vitamin A also has antioxidant properties. 

 

“Antioxidant” is a broad term for any compound able to prevent unstable molecule known as free radicals that damage DNA, cell membranes and other parts of cells.

No wonder bread and butter has always been mentioned as an essential survival meal: hence the phrase: “it is my bread and butter”.  

 

 

Vitamin D

 

Vitamin D is also known as the sunshine vitamin. This is because vitamin D is made by the body in response to sun exposure.

Vitamin D is a nutrient needed by our body, along with calcium, to build and keep bones healthy.

 

The human body can only absorb calcium if it has enough vitamin D.

Calcium is a major part of bones. Vitamin D also has many other uses in the body. It supports immune health and helps keep muscles and brain cells working.

 

Vitamin D is needed for normal bone growth. It is also needed for healing bones after a fracture. 

 

Calcium is the major component of the bone (more than 99%), and provides the skeleton, strength and structure, making the bone a metabolic reservoir to maintain the intra- and extra-cellular calcium pool.

 

 

Vitamin E

 

Vitamin E is a nutrient that is important for vision, fighting off diseases and the health of the blood, brain, and skin. Vitamin E is an antioxidant.

 

 

Did you know?

 

It has been scientifically and medically proven that a serious lack of vitamine E can cause nerve pain (AKA Neuropathy, and damage to the retina AKA retinopathy.) Retinopathy may lead to vision loss.

 

 

Salt

 

Wrongly accused of causing high blood pressure and heart disease only.

But, whilst  an excessive sodium consumption may be harmful, salt is essential. Salt plays a crucial role in maintaining human health.

It is the main source of sodium and chloride ions in the human diet.

 

 

Sodium is essential for nerve functioning, muscle contractions and hydration. (involved in the regulation of fluids in the body). Sodium also plays a role in the body’s control of blood pressure and volume.

 

 

Meaning, no one could live on sweets and sugary foods alone as it may result in a myriad of health issues such as: higher blood pressure, inflammation, weight gain, diabetes and fatty liver disease…

 

 

The aforementioned of health problems are all linked to an increased risk for heart attacks and strokes.

 

 

Chicken Eggs

 

 

Wrongly accused of being high in cholesterol and bad for the human heart. Unlike what you have been led to believe, eggs, and especially organic eggs are a great source of high-quality protein, vitamins and healthy fats.

 

 

Eggs increase HDL (good) cholesterol and are not linked to heart disease in most people. In fact, eggs are arguably the perfect food. They contain a little bit of almost every nutrient you need.

 

 

It is believed that a single large boiled egg contains:

 

 

• Eggs also contain decent amounts of vitamin D, vitamin E, vitamin B6, calcium and zinc

 

• Folate: 6% of the DV

 

• Pantothenic acid (vitamin B5): 14% of the DV

 

• Phosphorus: 7% of the DV

 

• Riboflavin (vitamin B2): 20% of the DV

 

• Selenium: 28% of the DV

 

• Vitamin A: 8% of the DV (daily value)

 

• Vitamin B12: 23% of the DV

 

The health benefits of eggs include: nutritionally rich, a complete source of protein, source of choline, good for heart health, eye health, may protect against sarcopenia, may support weight management, strengthen the immune system.

 

Eggs are highly nutritious and are an affordable source of complete and highly digestible protein. A source of vital nutrients, including choline which contributes to heart health and brain development. Their nutritional contribution makes them useful for both maintaining a healthy weight and for optimising body composition.

 

 

Red meat

 

Wrongly accused of causing cancer and heart disease.

Unless you are vegetarian, lean cuts of red meat are rich in protein, iron, zinc and B vitamins.

It is about choosing and eating quality red meat in moderation.  

 

Red meat is a vital source of a myriad of vitamins and minerals, such as: vitamins B, A, and E, copper, zinc, selenium, iron.

 

Compared to fat-soluble vitamins, such as vitamins A and E, water-soluble vitamins, especially vitamin B12, are present at high concentrations in red meat.

 

 

Dark Chocolate

 

Proven health benefits of eating chocolate

 

 

The secret of dark chocolate lies in its powerful cacao bean packed with healthy chemicals such as polyphenols, flavonoids and numerous ingredients beneficial to humans, such as:

 

Calcium, iron, thiamine (vitamin B1), riboflavin (vitamin B2), phosphorus, niacin, niacin amide (vitamin B3), pantothenic acid (vitamin B5), vitamin E, pyridoxine (vitamin B6), ascorbic acid (vitamin C), magnesium, zinc, copper, manganese.

 

Calcium is vital for ensuring the strength and healthiness of bones, teeth and capillary growth; it regulates the circulatory system, blood pressure and the beating of the heart.

 

Iron has oxygen-carrying proteins which empower the muscles across our bodies.

 

Thiamine (B1) vitamins assist the body in converting carbohydrates into energy; vital for our heart, muscles and nervous system.

 

Zinc: a vitamin which stabilises cell walls, and is necessary in keeping the immune system healthy and robust.

 

 

Copper: along with most of the iron attributes, builds up red blood cells and also maintains the immune system, blood vessels, nerves, and healthy bones.

 

Manganese, iron, collagen and flavanols contained in chocolate enhance energy levels, hair growth and skin repair, protecting skin from the sun’s rays and reducing the severity of burns.

 

Flavanols, a type of flavonoid found in dark chocolate, helps to protect you from heart disease by lowering blood pressure, improving blood flow, and preventing cell damage.

 

Cocoa powder also contains polyphenols, antioxidants that help to improve cholesterol and blood sugar levels and reduce the risk of heart disease.

 

It has been medically and scientifically proven that dark chocolate may boost mankind’s immune system.

 

There is no health risk with the myriad of vitamins included in organic chocolate dietary supplements because those vitamins are evenly balanced in high antioxidants, vitamins and minerals. Chocolate is a powerful ‘Super food’ packed with vitamins that help our bodies stay healthy and avoid DNA damage.

 

 

Easter is indeed the month that crowns chocolate as God of foods.

 

The origins of Easter can be traced to Christianity:

 

The celebration of Christ’s rising from the tomb, and that those who believe in Him and follow His ‘Word’ will also be spiritually resurrected into eternal life.

 

Easter Sunday marks the end of a forty-day long period of fasting called Lent, which culminates in the celebration of Christ’s resurrection on the third day after his crucifixion. 

 

The roots of the celebrations are diverse. However, cultures from around the world observe spring holidays and festivals at this time of year, around the common theme of rebirth.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Today, The Bridge Magazine wishes a Happy Easter to ALL.

 

 

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The Bridge Magazine Editor