{"id":7157,"date":"2013-06-19T21:47:30","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T11:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=7157"},"modified":"2013-06-19T21:47:30","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T11:47:30","slug":"what-we-are-not-getting-in-our-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=7157","title":{"rendered":"What We Are Not Getting In Our Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=justify>People sometimes ask why I take vitamin and mineral supplements as well as eating a great diet. Look at this:<\/p>\n<p align=justify>A study by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) showing the loss of vitamins and minerals in fruits and vegetables since 1975.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Apples: Vitamin A is down 41&#37;<\/li>\n<li>Sweet peppers: Vitamin C is down 31&#37;<\/li>\n<li>Watercress: Iron is down 88&#37;<\/li>\n<li>Broccoli: Calcium and vitamin A are down 50&#37;<\/li>\n<li>Cauliflower: Vitamin C is down 45&#37;; vitamin B1 is down 48&#37;; and vitamin B2 is down 47&#37;<\/li>\n<li>Collards greens: Magnesium is down 85&#37;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=justify>You read that right, an apple in 1975 is nearly twice as nutritious as one grown today. This is not good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People sometimes ask why I take vitamin and mineral supplements as well as eating a great diet. Look at this: A study by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) showing the loss of vitamins and minerals in fruits and vegetables since 1975. Apples: Vitamin A is down 41&#37; Sweet peppers: Vitamin C is down &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=7157\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What We Are Not Getting In Our Food&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}