Next time you hear the line, “I don’t take vitamins. I get all the nutrients I need from the food I eat.” ask the person saying it, “When was the last time you had a blood test done to determine the level of vitamins in your blood and a mineral hair analysis done to determine the level of minerals in your body?”
Because honestly, how do you know unless you test and measure? For a lot of what passes for reality in this society is merely froth and bubble – no substance. A smoke and mirrors game in fact. Or, perhaps more accurately, a bait and switch scam where you are promised one thing and delivered something nowhere near as good.
Presently nowhere near as much as psychiatry which offers help and delivers torturous, destructive and deadly treatments, the food industry is fast catching up with their pretty packaging and tasty poisons.
And unfortunately this scourge is not just the ‘food-like substances’ that more accurately describes many packaged foods, it has also made its way into the fresh food aisle in the supermarket.
Sam Knowlton wrote on Twitter the following, which is nothing new to me (it’s been in my book for over ten years) but might be to you.
“Since the 1940s, vegetables have decreased in nutrient density by 35%, fruits by 26%, meat by 32%, and cheese by 39%.
“During the same period, our fertilizer use has increased by ~ 3,000%.
“The declining nutritional integrity of our food supply since the introduction of synthetic fertilizers and hybrid crop varieties is well documented.
“Is the increase in fertilizer use the sole cause of this? No. Hybrid varieties bred to favor yield over quality play a huge role.”
Here is some homework for you over the holidays. Check out some of the links in this article and get a better understanding of the importance of supplementing your diet with my NutriBlast Greens+ or some other product.
This is just the first of two and a half pages of references:
Declining fruit and vegetable nutrient composition: What is the evidence? Horticultural Science
Morris, C. E., and D. C. Sands. 2006. The breeder’s dilemma—yield or nutrition? Nature Biotechnology
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gEX_Y2mtt97QS0_Ku7IpV68iQHc2eEns3tns591-Bf4/edit