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“A
lot of what we see in the supermarket I would argue is
not really food. It’s
what I call edible, food-like substances.”
Journalist
Michael Pollan
A
food expert featured in "Food, Inc"
“The
industrial food system fills us up but leaves us
empty.... But what we eat--how it’s raised and how it
gets to us--has consequences that can’t be ignored any
longer.”
Time
magazine in partnership with CNN
“Getting
Real About the High Price of Cheap Food”
Friday, August 21, 2009
“Science
has recently discovered that when sugars are missing in
these cell surface structures, the immune system can
become compromised, allowing these abnormal cells to
proliferate and go unnoticed.”
Dr.
John Rollins, retired award-winning Patent and US
Tradmark official
The
Atlanta Voice, March 2010
Ignorance
is not bliss; it's dangerous and costly. Know the facts;
know the solutions!
The need is real and growing. In 1975, the US
Senate Select Committee on Nutrition came to a startling
conclusion after several years of investigation: “We have
reached the point where nutrition, or the lack, or the excess,
or the quality of it may be the nation’s number one public
health problem.” Yet despite such warnings, today,
statistics show the nutritional content of even our “healthy” foods has dramatically declined still further,
with newly recognized categories largely absent.
•
In 1951, 2 peaches supplied the
RDA
of vitamin A for adult women. Today a woman would have to eat
almost 53 peaches to meet that
RDA
. Today it would take 65 cups of spinach to equal the amount of iron in 1 cup of
spinach in 1951. * (Jeffrey Christian “CHARTS: Nutrient Changes in Vegetables and Fruits, 1951 to 1999,” July 5, 2002.
CTV .ca)
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89% of those surveyed admitted that they
failed to consume their daily recommendations. 50% said they
do not eat any fruit and 25% said they do not eat any
vegetables on a daily basis. (American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2007)
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Today’s fast-food diets, loaded with unhealthy
fats and empty calories, are leading to an epidemic of health
problems.
• “Most people do not consume an optimal
amount of all vitamins by diet alone...it appears prudent for all adults to
take vitamin supplements.” (Fletcher RH, Fairfield KM, JAMA 2002, 287(23): pp. 3127-3129)
• “...Controlling free radicals,
antioxidants...influence how fast and how well we age...it is
virtually impossible to get the optimal amount of antioxidants
through food alone; we must supplement.” *(The Antioxidant Miracle: Put Lipoic Acid, Pycnogenol, and Vitamins E and C to Work for You, Lester Packer, Carol Colman, December 1999.)
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Key saccharides identified in Harper’s
Biochemistry, providing the very basis for cellular
communication and proper immune function, are strikingly
deficient. The typical modern diet supplies only 2 out of 8 of
these sugars!
| In a land where low cost and convenience trump nutrition, the results have been devastating. The choice we face, both personally and even nationally, is increasingly not
IF we will spend more, but WHEN we will, and
how. Common sense indicates that answers are no longer a luxury but a necessity. Just as our nutrition and health are directly related, our health and finances are equally interdependent. We are surrounded with warning voices. Experts such as Nicolas Webb in The Cost of Being Sick and mainstream publications like Time magazine in “Getting Real About the High Price of Cheap Food” have one message:
Wisdom is proactive. The less we want to be dependent upon others for our future and the more we value our health, freedom and finances, the more passionately we will seek out the most effective answers to live by.
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