Missing Nutrients

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Missing Nutrients JoAnn Guest Mar 12, 2002 12:55 PST

The Case of The Missing Nutrients

 

The nutrient content of foods, especially regarding minerals,

fluctuates widely, depending on growing conditions.

 

 

Our soil is depleted of selenium and often has only marginal levels

of zinc. magnesium, calcium and other trace minerals.

 

Evidence shows that the food tables that supposedly tell us the

nutrient content of the foods we eat vastly overstate nutritional

value.

 

Without mineral-rich soils,

 

it is impossible for fruits and vegetables

to contain a rich supply of nutrients! Fruits and vegetables begin to lose

nutrients from the moment they are

picked!

 

Green vegetables lose almost all their vitamin C after a few days of

being stored at room temperature!

 

Today, there are an unprecedented number of chemicals all around us---in

our food, water, and the very air we breathe!

The Environmental Protection Agency has estimated that 60,000 chemicals

have been buried or dumped throughout the United States and are now

penetrating our water supply!

 

 

Automobiles and industry spew millions of pounds of pollutants into the

atmosphere each year. Our food has become a chemical feast that is

sprayed with pesticides, injected with hormones, fed with antibiotics,

and adulterated with over 3,000 chemicals in the form of artificial

colors, flavors, textures, and preservatives!

Living and working with smokers can be equivalent to smoking several

cigarettes a day. Many of the chemicals now in or environment have been

proven to pose haxards to human health! Others may be potentially

hazardous.

 

Xenoestrogens are " foreign " estrogens that are found in pesticides,

herbicides, plastics, salad dressings, margarines, etc.

 

Due to these

harmful estrogens many women are producing 50% of the progesterone that

their mothers did! They contribute to estrogen dominance, damage the

developing follicles of the fetus and cause breast cancer,

osteoporosis and infertility!

 

 

Xenoestrogens, like DDT and dioxin, can bond with estrogen receptors and

never leave your body!!

 

As might be expected, our meats, which come from animals raised on some

of the same nutrient-depleted foods that are available to us, are also

lower in vitamins and minerals than indicated in food tables.

 

 

The nutrient levels in our factory-farm livestock, which are fed

artiificial diets, also differ from those of animals that enjoy a more

natural existence! And, of course, cooking robs meat of even more

nutrients---up to half of its thiamin, B6, and pantothenic acid.

 

Perhaps one of the greatest injustices inflicted upon foods occurs

during the milling of grains.

When wheat is processed into white flour, up to

40% of the Vitamin C,

from 65 to 85% of the B vitamins,

59% of the magnesium

and 72% of the zinc are lost!

Also lost are significant amounts of other vitamins, proteins, and

fiber.

 

The food industry puts back a few cents worth of iron, calcium,

niacin, thiamin and riboflavin and calls it " enriched " !!

 

 

Reduce the chemicals in your foods and eat organically.

 

 

Dozens of toxins in the form of chemical cancer stimulants found in

pesticides, unfiltered water, and nonorganic processed foods accumulate

in the body's fatty tissues.

 

 

These play a part in cancer, particularly in hormone-sensitive tissues.

 

 

Whether the chemicals deplete nutrients or increase your requirements,

it is wise to SUPERFORTIFY appropriately in order to obtain the

necessary antioxidants to help your body withstand these CHEMICAL

INSULTS!!

 

Fortunately, it has been found that certain vitamins and minerals are

productive against some of these toxic substances.

 

For example, vitamin

C and E have been shown to be protective against nitrosamine, a

carcinogen your body forms from the nitrates and nitrites found in

processed meats such as hotdogs, bacon, ham, and bologna.

 

 

These same carcinogens form from pollutants in the air and in cigarette

smoke.

 

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In addition to being cancer-causing agents, toxic chemicals have become

a prime suspect in male infertility.

 

Sperm counts all over the world are

half what they were in the late 1930's, and of low quality.

 

But sperm

counts of men who eat Organically Grown foods are twice as high as

average. Vitamin C and Glutathione have been shown to increase the

percentage of normal sperm, sperm mobility and sperm viability.

 

JoAnn Guest

 

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