What are food supplements, and why do we need them?
Food supplements are vitamins and minerals and other concentrated nutrients which are necessary for good health. Why do we need them? Can't we get everything we need from our regular food? What if we choose healthy organic foods? Many health authorities tell us that w edon't need supplements. They say all we have to do is eat a good diet. But millions of us feel that this is precisely the problem. Most of us do NOT get a good diet, and we are desperately in need of extra help to maintain our health.
An important USDA survey showed that only 3% of the population of the US eats a diet which meets the Four Food Groups pattern. Not a single person of the more than 21,500 people surveyed obtained 100% of the RDA for each of ten essential nutrients. (USDA Human Nutrition Information Service Publication Nutrient Intakes: Individuals in 48 States, 1977-1978. Nationwide Food Consumption Survey, report no. 1-2, pp. 367-370)
Much is lacking in our food
It is a fact that most of our food is grown on commercial farms and is produced by chemical fertilization in nutrient-depleted soil. The result is food that looks good, but may not supply what our bodies need for good health. To further darken the picture, it may be picked before it is ripe, and stored for weeks before we get it. Results? Less and less nutrition that reaches our plate. If it is displayed under bright lights, cooked at too high a temperature, or boiled in water, more nutrients are lost, resulting in further deficit.
Much is added to our food
Not only are we hurt by what is lost from our food supply, but there is the problem with what is added. During the past century a whole new world of additives and pollutants have deluged our food, water and air. Hundreds of chemicals have been added to our food which are designed to flavor it, preserve it, color it, keep its shape, etc. Our water supply is fouled with poisons that are added, or simply find their way in -- such as chlorine, pesticides and industrial wastes. Our air is also polluted with things like petrochemicals from automobile exhausts and tobacco smoke. All of this requires more nutrition daily just to cope with the toxins and allergens that surround us.
We need super nutrition to handle the stresses associated with modern civilization, but we bring home less and less from the grocery store in the form of usable nutrition. Consequently, our civilization is plagued with an increasing onslaught of degenerative disease. Immune systems can't keep up. Cancer, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis and other diseases sweep like a giant epidemic across the land, taking even children and young adults in its path.
The refining industry
To further complicate the picture, there is the food refining industry. Perhaps a more fitting term would be the "robbing" industry. They take our wheat which contains so much good nutrition, and strip it of approximately twenty-two nutrients. Then they add back a few synthetic vitamins and minerals, and call it "enriched."
This is like walking down the street one dark night with $22.00 in your purse, and somebody jumps out and slugs you, and takes it all. But as you lay there unconscious, your assailant feels sorry for you and puts back into your wallet a few counterfeit dollars, and says, "There! Now you are enriched." After that kind of treatment you probably would not feel "enriched". Yet that is what is happening to us, nutritionally, every day. The food giants constantly rob us of the nutrients God put into our grains, and replaced them with a few synthetics, and called the devitalized white flour "enriched."
Ancient Einkorn
and the only wheat that’s never been hybridized. Einkorn is a delicious, healthy alternative to modern, mass market wheat and can be an excellent solution for those with gluten sensitivity.
Ancient einkorn (rhymes with "fine corn") is the oldest food to make it's way back to your table.
Food supplements are vitamins and minerals and other concentrated nutrients which are necessary for good health. Why do we need them? Can't we get everything we need from our regular food? What if we choose healthy organic foods? Many health authorities tell us that w edon't need supplements. They say all we have to do is eat a good diet. But millions of us feel that this is precisely the problem. Most of us do NOT get a good diet, and we are desperately in need of extra help to maintain our health.
An important USDA survey showed that only 3% of the population of the US eats a diet which meets the Four Food Groups pattern. Not a single person of the more than 21,500 people surveyed obtained 100% of the RDA for each of ten essential nutrients. (USDA Human Nutrition Information Service Publication Nutrient Intakes: Individuals in 48 States, 1977-1978. Nationwide Food Consumption Survey, report no. 1-2, pp. 367-370)
Much is lacking in our food
It is a fact that most of our food is grown on commercial farms and is produced by chemical fertilization in nutrient-depleted soil. The result is food that looks good, but may not supply what our bodies need for good health. To further darken the picture, it may be picked before it is ripe, and stored for weeks before we get it. Results? Less and less nutrition that reaches our plate. If it is displayed under bright lights, cooked at too high a temperature, or boiled in water, more nutrients are lost, resulting in further deficit.
Much is added to our food
Not only are we hurt by what is lost from our food supply, but there is the problem with what is added. During the past century a whole new world of additives and pollutants have deluged our food, water and air. Hundreds of chemicals have been added to our food which are designed to flavor it, preserve it, color it, keep its shape, etc. Our water supply is fouled with poisons that are added, or simply find their way in -- such as chlorine, pesticides and industrial wastes. Our air is also polluted with things like petrochemicals from automobile exhausts and tobacco smoke. All of this requires more nutrition daily just to cope with the toxins and allergens that surround us.
We need super nutrition to handle the stresses associated with modern civilization, but we bring home less and less from the grocery store in the form of usable nutrition. Consequently, our civilization is plagued with an increasing onslaught of degenerative disease. Immune systems can't keep up. Cancer, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis and other diseases sweep like a giant epidemic across the land, taking even children and young adults in its path.
The refining industry
To further complicate the picture, there is the food refining industry. Perhaps a more fitting term would be the "robbing" industry. They take our wheat which contains so much good nutrition, and strip it of approximately twenty-two nutrients. Then they add back a few synthetic vitamins and minerals, and call it "enriched."
This is like walking down the street one dark night with $22.00 in your purse, and somebody jumps out and slugs you, and takes it all. But as you lay there unconscious, your assailant feels sorry for you and puts back into your wallet a few counterfeit dollars, and says, "There! Now you are enriched." After that kind of treatment you probably would not feel "enriched". Yet that is what is happening to us, nutritionally, every day. The food giants constantly rob us of the nutrients God put into our grains, and replaced them with a few synthetics, and called the devitalized white flour "enriched."
Ancient Einkorn
Nature’s Original Wheat http://jovialfoods.com/
Jovial Foods is proud to offer you einkorn, the world’s most ancient wheat,and the only wheat that’s never been hybridized. Einkorn is a delicious, healthy alternative to modern, mass market wheat and can be an excellent solution for those with gluten sensitivity.
Ancient einkorn (rhymes with "fine corn") is the oldest food to make it's way back to your table.
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