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Are You Overfed and Malnourished?

An introduction to the American diet starts with sugar and ends with fat. Government statistics show that this country’s typical diet is made up of 40% sugars and 35% fat.
Over the past few decades, fat consumption has increased by 30 percent and sugar consumption by 50 percent.
We are a nation of over-fed and undernourished individuals.

The more we research the food situation, the more we realize that our society has created a major dichotomy. We are overeating and we
are starving.

We are starving and exhibiting lifestyle illnesses which represent nutritional deficiencies – because the nutrients are no longer present in our foods in the quality and amounts we require for optimum health.

	Early Harvesting	can account for food value losses of UP TO 25%
	Transportation	can account for food value losses of UP TO 25%
	Storage	can account for food value losses of UP TO 50%
	Cooking	can account for food value losses of UP TO 50%
	Freezing	can account for food value losses of UP TO 83%
	Canning	can account for food value losses of UP TO 83%
	Overprocessing	can account for food value losses of UP TO 100%
	Refining	can account for food value losses of UP TO 100%
	Pasteurization	can account for food value losses of UP TO 50%

Food companies have been forced by consumer demand to produce products that sell rather than foods that nourish.

Whole foods – fruits, vegetables and grains – have been so contaminated by chemicals and depleted through processing that they no longer contain the essential nutrients to sustain life. Nutrient poor soils produce nutrient poor food and sick people.

Lowered immune function and less resistance, fatigue, irritability, depression, muscle aches and pains, premature aging, hyperactivity, attention deficit, heart disease and cancer are merely a few symptoms of our malnutrition.

Time Magazine reported, “As far as America is concerned, most people don’t even come close (to following the U.S. dietary guidelines). A mere 9 percent of adults manage to consume five servings of fruits and vegetables each day.”

According to Cass Ingram, M.D., the way we process our food destroys the nutrients in them. “Heating and boiling food can destroy over 90 percent of the folic acid content. Refining whole wheat into flour destroys between 50 percent and 86 percent of the niacin, thiamin, folic acid, riboflavin, pyridoxine, pantothenic acid and vitamin E.

Up to 90 percent of the manganese is lost in this process, as well as 87 percent of the zinc, 81 percent of the iron content and 83 percent of the magnesium. Eat whole organic foods. You will eat less, enjoy good health and probably live longer. If you are tired of being sick and tired, save your money and your health and eat organic.

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