User:PlessRoderick883
Food has always provided humans with all the nourishment they needed. What is the problem today?
There are several problems, actually. Let's start with food adulteration and refinement. In centuries past, humans have either gathered or hunted their food - visiting the supermarket wasn't an option. Many people think that everything edible within the store is food, and that is not the case.
We have plastics masquerading as fats, for heaven's sake! Margarine, anyone? We've powders containing who-knows-what masquerading as eggs, broth, cheese, etc. We have breads doused with chemicals that may sit on a shelf for weeks. We've liquids that dissolve teeth being the most popular drinks. I possibly could continue, but it is too painful. And I haven't even touched the GMO issue!
An educated shopper can weave through the fake foods and find the organic section. All seems well, right? Do you know the number of feet of soil those meals was grown on? You do not? Only then do we have a problem. When western civilization landed around the American continent, the land was covered with several feet of rich soil. It was so deep the plow would sink and obtain stuck in it. Whatever seed was dropped onto it changed into a plant.
What is left today in most places is about six inches of soil, and no-one knows how long this type of thin layer will be able to support life, especially at the rate most of it is being doused with chemicals. The thing is, in case your food (plants and also the animals that eat those plants) originates from unpolluted, deep soil, and you are eating all the foods your ancestors ate, congratulations - you don't have to supplement.
Why do I mention the foods your ancestors ate? Because we've become as refined as our foods. Think of foods your grandparents loved, such as animal organs, and you're simply totally grossed out. Just because you don't like something doesn't mean the biological need has gone away.
Even if we eat 100% organic food, we're not obtaining the nutrient density that was present decades ago. For instance, the amount of iron that was present in one cup of spinach decades ago now takes sixty five glasses of spinach. The quantity of food we'd have to consume today to obtain the same quantity of nutrients we used to get is staggering and impossible to achieve for many people.
Compounding the problem is the ever increasing load of chemicals (pesticides, herbicides, cosmetics, vaccines, drugs, food additives, etc.) our bodies have to deal with, which causes nutrient depletion in the make an effort to neutralize them. Which means we want a lot more nutrients now than we did several decades ago, or maybe even a few years ago, but are getting less.
How can we start creating for the lost nutrient density in our foods? It appears logical that the more we concentrate the food, the greater its nutrient density. The problem is then within the method, because any drastic measures (extreme temperatures, chemicals, etc.) destroy intricate living processes in the foods. Unfortunately, it is extremely easy to turn a living food into an inert substance, but impossible to reverse it.
The solution is in both, eating living organic foods whenever possible, and supplementing with equally living supplements. Unfortunately, most supplements are synthetic, developing a greater problem for that body. When they boast high potency, many units of measurement, along with a list of ingredients that aren't real food, you aren't getting real vitamins, but just impostors - regardless of brand name. We should be detectives and discover how supplements are made before we get them.
