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IN THIS ISSUE:

• Modern Food's Malnutrition
• How to Avoid Flu Shot
• Vitamin A

Modern Foods Malnutrition

The foods that we eat today are not what they used to be. With today’s agriculture and farming practice ever more focused on profit and producing more in less time, for less money, in smaller space, the foods that are produced are increasingly depleted from their nutrients.

With the average Westerner’s focus on taste rather than nutrition, the foods we eat often include junk, empty carbohydrates, processed stuff, and lots of sugar. Perhaps it’s no wonder that diabetes is a growing disease worldwide. The basic idea that the foods we eat provide nutrition and are the basis for our ongoing good health, seems to have been replaced (through clever food chains marketing) with the idea of ‘pleasuring our taste buds’ with ‘great new taste sensations’. Never mind that most of it is just empty junk, as far as is nutrition concerned.

The life saver for many people is supplementing their diet with vitamins and minerals, which have been depleted from their food. A British Guardian article from February 2006 states that mineral levels in milk and meat have plummeted over the last 60 years.

“The levels of iron recorded in the average rump steak have dropped by 55%,” states the article, “while magnesium fell by 7%. Looking at 15 different meat items, the analysis found that the iron content had fallen on average by 47%. The iron content of milk had dropped by more than 60%, and by more than 50% for cream and eight different cheeses. Milk appears to have lost 2% of its calcium, and 21% of its magnesium too.”

As Dr. Tim Lobstein, of the UK consumer watchdog agency “The Food Commission” says, “today’s agriculture does not allow the soil to enrich itself, but depends on chemical fertilizers that don’t replace the wide variety of nutrients plants and humans need.”

The result is growing minerals and vitamins depletion of the foods we eat, while the big companies and various government agencies are working in cahoots to take control over vitamins production and remove it from being freely available on the market. 

How to Avoid Flu Shot

Here’s some straight-forward, yet valuable advice on how to keep cold and flu away.

1. Avoiding flu shot

   Eat right
2. Make sure you get your daily dose of fruits and veggies.
3. Take your vitamins and bump up your vitamin C.
4. Get plenty of exercise because exercise helps build your immune system.
5. Walk for at least an hour a day, go for a swim, take the stairs instead of the elevator, do housework, etc.
6. Wash your hands often. If you can't wash them, keep a bottle of antibacterial stuff around.
7. Get lots of fresh air. Open doors and windows whenever possible.
8. Try to eliminate as much stress from your life as you can.
9. Get plenty of rest.
10. Live Well - Laugh Often - Love Much

Vitamin A

In the coming issues of this e-letter, we’ll bring you more information about Vitamin supplements. In each issue you will find digested version, while the full article will be published online.

Vitamin A was given the first letter of the alphabet for a name because it was the first vitamin to be discovered. One of vitamin A many uses is that of keeping eyes healthy.

Many people will remember being told that eating lots of carrots helps you to see in the dark, because of the high levels of beta carotene that are found in the vegetables, and in particular carrots.

Other foods with high levels of beta carotene are tomatoes and dark green leafy vegetables, such as spinach. Vitamin A is also found in eggs, milk, liver and meat.

Children need plenty of vitamin A to help them develop bones and teeth properly. In adults, vitamin A helps fight infections and illnesses that attack various parts of body, such nose, mouth, throat and lungs.

More about Vitamin A.

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