Hi Lance...instead of going to all the trouble of buying and preparing worthless foods what product could we consume, if there is one out there, that we would benefit most from nutritionally.....thanks in advance debbie
-------------- Original message -------------- From: [email protected] Much of my information comes from my company listening in on conference calls and asking the doctors that work for the company my numerous and often skeptical questions. However long before this experience I've been researching many different sources and reviewing many opinions from Medical Doctors, Osteopaths, Naturopaths and Nutritionists, and so on and assume many of you who must be health conscious have too . One of the things I point to is how studies HAVE been done for the past decades in regards to the level of chromium in our blood, a trace mineral that regulates blood sugar among other things. All but one test showed steady decline and the immediate tests afterwards showed continued decline. I'd have to find the study/article but I could show you the dramatic results that help show that clearly even if the 1936 testing was small in scope or even flawed, there is no way that our general produce has gotten better in mineral content! We fertilize our soils with NPK primarily and have for about one hundred years. This is nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. Farmers use what is necessary for their yield. This is only two minerals, phosphorus and potassium that are being ''reimbursed''. No real effort can be given to trace minerals, or even macro-minerals like calcium. Our soils as far as big time farms are being slowly depleted of ALL minerals but what is in NPK. Those two minerals and nitrogen are the only nourishment necessary to get your apples and Idaho Potatoes and corn from Ohio, etc. Sure sometimes they use Boric acid [Boron], etc. in small amounts or you find smaller farms or personal farms that have some good methods [hopefully like mine] and help a little bit, but this doesn't really help the majority using standard cheap, inorganic produce from big company farms concerned with patents of Genetically engineered products and getting as much yield for as little resources [money] as possible. And the small farms really don't ever come close to comp lete soil nourishment even with good methods IMO. So no matter what pick of great looking and abundant produce you have in a country ''seemingly'' the richest in food quality and I would think obviously in quantity you are going to be faced with ever depleted soils. This is what those of us witnessing this slow catastrophe have been saying for years. Getting the appropriate ratio and optimal amount of all vitamins, amino acids and essential fatty acids is quite frankly impossible unless you are in the severe minority of people who have near perfect diets. As for the minerals? Your apples and bush beans and onions DON'T MAKE MINERALS. Plants don't make minerals. If you can imagine given this view how we've improved anything but our caloric intake and protein availability since 1936 for the average American by depleting our soils and converting to high usage of vitamin and mineral depleting diets [i.e. soda pop, table sugar, High fructose corn syrup, Red Bull, Ramen Noodles and Campb ell's MSG gumbo] than you have quite an imagination. I can't picture it myself though. As far as I'm concerned, being robbed of selenium alone has contributed more to death and degeneration in America by disease- as well as some supposedly genetic diseases- than our FDA or AMA would ever admit no matter how compelling the evidence. This is my opinion once again, and I'm not a doctor, a scientist or an actor. So hey you know. ''Lance''
