CONNECTIONS to HEALTH

Nutrition... How low can we go? It's a good question.  Most people we see are malnourished.   BASIC NUTRITION - Are You Getting Enough? There are approximately ninety nutrients the body needs on a daily basis: up to sixty minerals, sixteen vitamins, twelve amino acids and three fatty acids. There are other things that the body would like but at a push it can make them from the other ninety. Now the body can only repair itself from the raw materials you provide for it, so if you have any doubts about being able to provide those ninety nutrients on a daily basis you may want to consider taking a good nutritional supplement, at least in the short term until you recover. So does your diet provide those ninety nutrients on a daily basis? Well, if you ate a fresh, local, organic diet of which 75% was raw you would need to eat about thirty two different foodstuffs a day to provide those ninety nutrients. Not many people’s diets are that broad. So why would anyone need a nutritional supplement if they were eating a balanced diet? Can’t we get everything we need from our food? In an ideal world we would, however, we don’t live in an ideal world. There are three main reasons why we don’t get what we need from our food. The first is that most people’s diets are not broad enough. The second is that most of the food we buy has been treated in some way to prolong shelf-life and/or storage times, which removes nutritional factors. And the third is that our soils have been over farmed so there is little in the way of minerals left in the soil. Unlike vitamins and amino acids, plants can not make minerals. If they are not in the soil then they are not in the plants that grow in them. The following audio program "Nutrition...How low can we go?" tell you what steps you can take to make sure you have good foundational nutrition. If you want to save this file directly to your hard drive the right-click the link and select Save Target As... If you have any questions after listening to this get back to Allyn or Sue.

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