Why isn't our food good enough anymore ?
This is a first of a series of articles on your health. Why isn't our normal food good enough any more ? Since artificial fertilizers started to be used some 60 years ago the natural minerals in world wide soils have been seriously depleted. To best realize what has happened here is an article written by a prominent nutritional scientist in the USA.
Until the 1940's, farmers returned essential nutrients to the soil by mulching, manuring and crop rotation. At the end of World War II, drug conglomerates making nitrates and phosphates for weapons were left with few buyers for their stockpiles of chemicals. They had to find new markets for their products. Earlier experiments had shown that many plants will grow on a mixture of just three minerals, nitrogen (N), Phosphorus (P), and potassium (K).
Armed with this knowledge, war chemical manufacturers began selling NPK fertilizers to farmers at attractive prices that made traditional soil enrichment methods uneconomical. By the 60's, in order to compete in the food market, almost all American farms had become totally dependent on NPK products in order to make a living. Mixtures of NPK, provide three of the main minerals essential for plant health. They grow fine-looking crops with abundant yields. But your body is not a vegetable. Humans need more than nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. They need selenium, chromium, calcium, magnesium, iron, copper, iodine, molybdenum, zinc, cobalt, boron and vanadium. NPK fertilizers do not contain the minerals essential for human health, because they were never designed for human nutrition. As each succeeding crop grown on NPK products has depleted the soil of other essential minerals, and these minerals are no longer replaced. Most produce and food animals now grown in America, have become "mineral deficient". And it's the same in the rest of the world. Farmers have been top dressing their paddocks and crop fields with NPK. So that the vegetables and meat that we eat are seriously depleted in minerals.
Please see our Nutritional Supplements Category in the right column to supplement your diet to stay healthy.
Posted 09/12/05 by Almabiz | Filed under: General Health Information
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