What’s Happening to Our Food?

In the first of our Food Posts, we investigate what is going on with the quality of our food.  

Much of the food available today doesn’t have the nutritional value it could have. There I said it. Any moment now I expect a Black Van of operatives to pull up outside my house, blind-fold, gag and kidnap me to some undisclosed location, however the cat is firmly out of the bag anyway.

Under pressure from big retailers, many farmers are forced to repeatedly grow crops in the same soil without allowing mother nature sufficient time to recover and replenish said soil, which leads to depletion of the soil’s nutrient value, which leads to depletion of our food’s nutrient value.

Picking fruits and vegetables “green”, before they allowed to fully ripen, further drains our produce of vital vitamins and minerals, as the majority of essential nutrients are carried into our fruits and vegetables in the ripening stage of the growth process. Transporting fruits and vegetables in containers over long distances, for many days and the subsequent gassing of the produce to ensure it is ripe upon arrival, further compounds the denaturing of the food we buy off the supermarket shelves.

Additionally, our fruits and vegetables are produced in a polluted planet, with chemicals, pesticides, unclean air and water being the nursery within which they grow. All this combines to create food that is lacking in what our bodies need to be optimally healthy.

A study by the American College of Nutrition found that in order to get the same vitamin C that our Grandparents received from eating two peaches, we would have to eat 50 peaches today.

So our food is dropping in quality, what’s the big deal?

Studies have shown that as our food has dropped in quality, so has our health along with it.

In a World Health Organisation Report , the USA went from being the 12th Healthiest nation in the world in 1998 to the 37th in the space of 2 years. This, despite having spent over 1.3 Trillion Dollars on healthcare.

Even more disturbing is that the top 10 most common causes of death over the last century have changed significantly. Heart Disease, Cancer and Diabetes didn’t even make the top 3 in 1900, now they are rampant.

                                                                         Source: International Weekly Journal of Science.

Which begs the question, what happened?

1998 was the year that green harvesting and processed food became mainstream practice in the USA.

What’s more, poor nutrition is even increasing cases of Heart Disease in kids!

It’s no wonder more and more people are turning to quality natural ingredients to give themselves and their families the energy and immunity they need to live a healthy active lifestyle.

Would you agree that the quality of our food is declining? Feel free to share your views below – 

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