We know as a fact that food is good for us and gives us energy by providing the right nutrition for the body. We learnt it from our childhood and therefore have a firm belief in it. However, it is about the time to think about the question, “Is the food we are eating the same food that supposedly should give us the nutrition?” Why do we have to ask that question? I think we have to ask the question because there is a big change that has occurred in our food & the quality of our food. The fact of the matter is:

The vegetation that grows on earth is enriched by the soil it is grown in. If the soil is rich in minerals, and microorganisms that make it fertile then the vegetables that are grown in that soil will absorb those nutrients and convert them to an organic usable form so it is easily absorbed by our system and is able to provide the nutrients that we need. However, when no organic matter is put back in the soil and erosion takes a lot of topsoil away, there is a large loss of the good, mineral-rich soil. When vegetables are grown on a soil that is deficient, how can they have enough vitality to pass on to us? (These facts about vegetables grown in deficient soil are true even in the case of organic foods.)

Adding chemical fertilizers that are inorganic makes the situation even worse. In addition, because of lack of resistance in such vegetation, these plants are attacked easily by the bugs and insects, requiring the use of herbicides and insecticides. Eating such vegetables or fruits cannot bring the type of nutrition your body needs? The same thing applies for the production of meat and other processed foods. Technologically we have advanced to a point that we can chemically process any food item and store it in containers with the help of artificial preservatives for a long period of time. But can we get or maintain the health benefits of such processed foods?

So the food I eat isn’t perfectly nutritious? Can’t I just eat more of it or take vitamins? Unfortunately, it just doesn’t work that way. Once food is consumed, it has to be broken down or digested to keep the body running. Fully nutritious food comes with ingredients that help the body do this work. But if we eat deficient food that has not provided the right ingredients to help the body metabolize it, the body takes care of this situation in the best way it can: to get the food digested it takes the missing ingredients from wherever it can find them.

In such a case it would borrow ingredients from different organs and pull out or literally rob whatever is needed to process the food to bring it to its final destination. In such case we literally are losing the nutrients from our body rather than getting them and although we may physically feel loaded with food, the body is getting weaker by losing the nutrients that it should keep to do multiple tasks assigned to it day in and day out. The scale may show the weight increasing but the body is getting deficient and weaker in its performance everyday and we keep wondering, “What is happening to me?”

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