They say (who "They" are I'm not exactly sure) that our excessively obese society is starving to death nutritional. In other words we eat to much food the has little or no nutrition and is packed with calories. Eg: soda pop and sugary foods.
Now lets say that you are a very conscientious eater. You eat all the EAR (estimated ave. req.) of nutrients. You eat nine servings of fruit and veggies/day, low sat & trans fat, low sodium, low sugar, etc. Are you really getting in all your EAR? Probably not. Why? Because of the way our food is being produced.
The soil that our food is being grown in has been striped of nutrients and replaced with chemical additives.
A colleague of mine was telling me about a study that was done with a head of romaine lettuce from a popular local grocery store. It was tested for its nutrient value against one grown in someone's private chemical free backyard garden. The store bought variety had 60% less nutrients than the home grown one.
Now I know that studies can be vague and mis-interperted but is the food that we think is healthy really healthy enough?
This is one of the reasons that I take my all natural multi-vitamin.
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