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Does Everyone Need Nutritional Supplements? by wittywelz(m): 3:30am On Jan 30, 2018
DOES EVERYONE NEED NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS?
Among the many reasons are:
1. Soil depletion has reduced the nutrient content of our food supply. In most areas of the world, the land has been over-farmed and over-grazed. In most of the world, manures and other mineral-rich products are not put back enough on the land. This has depleted the soil quality. In many other areas, the soil is just of low quality and is difficult to improve.
This produces food that is low in many minerals, in particular, but also low in vitamins, and hundreds of other nutrients found in food.
2. Hybrid crops provide lower-nutrient food. These are used everywhere today, even on organic farms. They yield more food per acre, but the crops all have a much lower nutrient content than those grown 100 years ago. This is
well-documented in US Department of Agriculture statistics and elsewhere.
For example, at least ten times as much rice or wheat are grown on the same land as was grown there 100 years ago. But the land is not stocked with ten times the minerals, vitamins and other nutrients.
As a result, in part, today's wheat contains about 6% protein whereas 100 years ago it contained 12-14%. Trace mineral levels are similarly much lower due to high-yield farming methods.
3. Modern fertilizers do not supply enough trace elements. One hundred years ago, manures were used extensively for fertilizer. Today,
superphosphate fertilizers have largely replaced manures. These contain mainly nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus and are deficient in the trace elements. This is sad, but true. Our crops are more like a person on steroids – stimulated, but not as strong and safe.
Superphosphates often act more as growth stimulants.
This has contributed greatly to depletion of the soil and crop minerals. This includes organically grown food, although it is much better.
4. Modern use of chemical pesticides and herbicides all over the world make food somewhat toxic, and damage soil microorganisms.
Both of these also reduce the nutrition of the crops. Soil microorganisms are needed to make minerals and other nutrients available to plants. When these are damaged by Roundup, and hundreds of other toxic pesticides, insecticides and other chemicals put on crops, the soil micro-organisms do not function as well, and the nutrient content of the food becomes lower.
Also, our bodies require extra nutrients to process pesticide residues that remain inside the foods, so the pesticides that we must eat daily also reduce our nutritional status each and every day. Many pesticides are deadly chemicals that severely tax the human system. Some contain lead, arsenic and other toxic metals that slowly accumulate in the body.
Our laws currently allow sewage and even factory sludge to be sold as fertilizer that contains significant quantities of toxic metals. These add greatly to our toxic metal burden and requires that we take in nutrients to help remove them from the body.
5. Long-distance transportation of many foods diminishes their nutritional content.
As soon as a food is harvested, the levels of certain nutrients begin to diminish.
Today, many foods
are grown thousands of miles from population centers.
The food may spend a week on a truck or a train before it reaches you.
In addition, some foods, especially fruits, must be sprayed, irradiated, or processed in other ways in order to survive the journey across the world. For example, many people do not realize that much of our food comes from South America, Asia and China. These are miles away and transportation is slow. The food can grow moldy and you wouldn’t even know it.
6. Food processing often drastically reduces the nutrient content of common foods such as wheat flour, rice, dairy products and others. For example, the refining of wheat to make white flour removes 80% of its magnesium, 70-80% of its zinc, 87% of its chromium, 88% of its manganese and 50% of its cobalt.
Similarly, refining sugar cane to make white sugar removes 99% of its magnesium and 93% of its chromium.
Polishing (refining) rice removes 75% of its zinc and chromium. This is just the beginning of most food processing, however.
This is why fresh frozen
vegetables, and freshly canned sardines are not that bad. At least they are preserved quickly after harvesting or catching the fish, and the preservation method is not that terrible. The best food, however, is freshly harvested or freshly killed and eaten quickly.
Pasteurization and homogenization of dairy products
drastically reduces the bioavailability of calcium, phosphorus and some proteins in milk and other dairy products. This is one of the worst insults to our food today.
7. Food additives often further deplete nutrients. Thousands of artificial flavors, colors, dough conditioners, sweeteners, artificial sweeteners, stabilizers, flavor enhancers like MSG, emulsifiers, hardeners, softeners, chemical preservatives and other chemicals are added to most people’s food today.
While a few are harmless and may even increase the quality of the food by preserving it, many are toxic and many diminish the nutritional content of the food.
Among the worst are preservatives like
BHA and BHT, artificial sweeteners like Aspartame , and perhaps EDTA, a chelating agent, that is added to some frozen vegetables to preserve the color of the vegetables. The way it works is by removing vital minerals from the surface of the vegetable because when minerals oxidize, the color of the vegetable turns dark and ugly. This is like tarnishing of silver.

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