Nutrition

Nutrition

EATING TO THRIVE NOT JUST TO SURVIVE

We normally think of nutrition only in regard to losing weight or getting fit. Eating a more nutritionally dense diet could be the first choice in addressing pain, sickness and every day health issues.

A very good way to start talking about and looking at nutrition is micronutrients. When we think of nutrition we often just think about macro-nutrients, fat carbohydrates and protein. Micro-nutrients are often relegated to more of an afterthought.

Micronutrients are minerals, vital minerals (where we get the word vitamin) and trace minerals. Our bodies are made of the earth. In the history of human life we have replenished our bodies with plants taking the many micronutrients from the soil and the sea. When we eat meat the animals have taken the nutrient from the plants and transferred them to us.

After WW1 the chemical companies needed to find ways to stay in business and realized they could use chemicals to poison plants, bugs and use as fertilizer. After WW2 many governments supplemented farmers only if they would use chemicals on the crops.

Now we were harvesting food and taking out many micronutrients and adding back only a few– usually 3– NPK.  These also are petroleum based which damage the living organisms in the soil.

We are eating food from decades of this destructive land management, which results in food that looks great but has a fraction of the naturally occurring nutrients.

Add to this the incredible toxic load from our environment that we have to deal with from birth. The extra load would require more nutrition to combat and our food has less.

Now we can ask the question of what to do. Each person has a unique nutrition makeup and needs, and would require and individual answer. However it is clear that we all would benefit from extra nutrition and to eat in a way that fits our own system.