User:CottoPang400
Food has always provided humans with all the nourishment they needed. What is the problem today?
There are many problems, actually. Let's move on 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 assume that everything edible in the store is food, and that is not the situation.
We've 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 can take a seat on shelves for weeks. We've liquids that dissolve teeth to be the most popular drinks. I could continue, but it is too painful. And that i haven't even touched the GMO issue!
An informed shopper can weave with the fake foods and find the organic section. All seems well, right? Do you know how many feet of soil those meals was grown on? You don't? Then we have trouble. When western civilization landed around the American continent, the land was engrossed in several feet of rich soil. It had been so deep the plow would sink and obtain stuck inside it. Whatever seed was dropped onto it turned into a plant.
What's left today in most places is all about six inches of soil, and no-one knows how long this type of thin layer can support life, especially at the rate most of it is being doused with chemicals. The point is, in case your food (plants and the animals that eat those plants) originates from unpolluted, deep soil, and you're simply eating all of the foods your ancestors ate, congratulations - you don't have to supplement.
Why do I mention the foods your ancestors ate? Because we have become as refined as our foods. Think of foods your grandparents loved, such as animal organs, and you are totally grossed out. Simply because you do not like something does not mean the biological need has gone away.
Even when we eat 100% organic food, we are not obtaining the nutrient density which was present decades ago. For instance, the amount of iron that was contained in single serving of spinach decades ago now takes sixty-five glasses of spinach. The amount of food we'd have to consume today to get the same quantity of nutrients we used to get is staggering and impossible to achieve for many people.
Compounding the problem is the increasing load of chemicals (pesticides, herbicides, cosmetics, vaccines, drugs, food additives, etc.) the body suffer from, which causes nutrient depletion within the attempt to neutralize them. That 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 do we go about making up for the lost nutrient density in our foods? It seems logical that the more we concentrate the meals, the greater its nutrient density. The issue is then within the method, because any drastic measures (extreme temperatures, chemicals, etc.) destroy intricate living processes in the foods. Unfortunately, it is extremely simple to turn a living food into an inert substance, but impossible to reverse it.
The solution is in both, eating living organic foods as much as possible, and supplementing with equally living supplements. Unfortunately, most supplements are synthetic, developing a greater problem for the body. When they boast high potency, large number of units of measurement, and a list of ingredients that aren't real food, you aren't getting real vitamins, but just impostors - regardless of brand. We should be detectives and find out how supplements are created before we purchase them.
