Comments about "A study on the mineral depletion of the foods available to us as a nation"

Our backyard vegetable plot in Central Wellington.
Rhubarb, brocolli, zuchini, cucumber, spinach,
beans, beans and more beans!
We are expecting a bumper crop this summer.
Note the rotting seaweed.

Rick of Rick's Running sent me this document "A study on the mineral depletion of the foods available to us as a nation over the period 1940 to 1991"which shows how the mineral content of vegetables in the UK has plunged over that period.  Looks shocking, while hardly surprising.

Hair Tissue Analysis indicating a diet that has been
seriously deficient of minerals.

I am not at all surprised with the findings because they sit comfortably with the Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis reports of which I have completed hundreds.  These reports consistently show that our modern diets are falling terribly short when it comes to supplying nutrients other than calcium (in gross excess in most cases).  This is most apparent in vegetarians who do not have the benefit of concentrated nutrients from animal sources.

The source of the problem is this:

• The faster the rate of production/growth, the lower the concentration of nutrients.
• Modern fruit and vegetables have been selectively bred to produce more sugar and less bitter nutrients.
• Soil is continuously over-cultivated by the use of pesticides and herbicides, perilously depleting minerals.
• What is replaced is only what makes plants grow fast; nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium fertiliser (NPK) and loads and loads of lime (calcium).  Humans need over a hundred different minerals to thrive.

The solutions are to:

Unhealthy products such as tobacco and alcohol like to
associate with "healthy" activities.  Note the irony of
the slogan for this nutrient-poor product!

• Grow your own vegetables in your back yards as much as you can, composting all your organic materials and adding sources of minerals such as seaweed.  Kill any bugs with your fingers, rather than smothering your plants with pesticides (Press-gang your kids into this job - wee fingers are perfect for the job!).
• Buy the rest from organic sources, if you can afford it.
• Avoid processed foods, especially breakfast cereals, including the ones that claim to make you strong and healthy.
• Eat fresh meat, milk and eggs from free range sources - not from factory farms where the animals are raised on a combination of grains, antibiotics and hormones.
• Take supplementary vitamins and minerals.  Best guided by an annual Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis.

_______________________________________

About this website

The advice in these articles is given freely without promise or obligation.  Its all about giving you and your family the tools and information to take control of your health and fitness.

Ultra Protein Plus Pea Protein by Douglas Labs 984 grams

Perfect for vegetarians!

Ultra Protein Plus Pea Protein by Douglas Labs


Note: For sale in New Zealand by Practitioner prescription only.  Contact Gary Moller by email for pricing details and to determine, for sure, if this is the most suitable product for you.
Email: gary@myotec.co.nz

Ultra Protein Plus Pea Protein provides a rich source of all the indispensable amino acids essential to health, as well as 25% of the nutrition provided by Douglas Laboratories' Ultra Preventive® III, a multi-vitamin/mineral dietary supplement. Pea Protein beverage powder also provides a significant amount of the prebiotic fructooligosaccharide (FOS) in delicious chocolate almond and vanilla bean flavors. It contains no genetically modified plant tissue and is pesticide, lactose and gluten free.



Ultra Protein Plus Pea Protein Chocolate Almond Powder 948 grams
Serving size: 1 heaping scoop, 31.6 grams
Servings per container: approximately 30

Can you get all your protein from fruit, veges and berries?

"Gary, wonder if you would comment on the following - XXX, the therapist who is helping me, is also a vegetarian and he told me that every day he drinks equiv. of three mugs of green-leaved veges, i.e. spinach, cale, watercress, type stuff, whipped up in a blender with water or juice and a piece of fruit or berries, whatever, to make it taste a little nicer. XXX says you can get your necessary protein i.e. that's amino acids, right? complement from this. A book I looked at recently claimed quite definitely that you cannot! Neither XXX nor the writer of the book are nutritionists, so wondered about your opinion on this? "
_________________________________
Gary Moller comments:
Being a vegetarian is not that easy in New Zealand. It is very difficult to get all of the nutrients, including some essential amino acids, vitamins and fatty acids. Even if some animal-sourced foods like eggs and milk are included. While spinach and kale are extremely rich in vitamin K, the uptake of it is very poor if not digested with fat (Vitamin K is one of the fat soluble vitamins). Spinach is best eaten with a dollop of yellow New Zealand butter.

I have an elderly Hindu friend. His extended family's principal source of many essential nutrients that are rare from plant sources is from the home made yogurt that is served with each meal. This is why the cow is sacred in India (from a nutritional viewpoint!). The only problem for them is the milk they use is the relatively indigestible type A1 milk protein, the pasteurisation and the the fact that most of the goodness is removed when most of the milk fat is removed. I therefore worry for their health. I have observed unusually high rates of osteoporosis, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis and depression within the Indian population of Wellington and I wonder if it is partly due to the poor quality of the milk in their diet.

Not long ago, I had a client who went on vegetable juice diet. Trouble is he flushed his body clean of minerals and ended up in intensive care with heart problems. Just the other day, I had an inquiry from another person who had just completed a 10 day juice cleansing diet, only to be unable to sleep due to twitching legs. Another case of mineral flushing. To determine if you need minerals please go here.

A vegetarian diet should have a wide variety of foods, including lentil, nuts, vegetables and fruit. I am convinced that the vegetarian diet should include some animal protein and fat from raw milk and free range eggs. For more about the essential role of fats and fat soluble proteins, Google search for the Weston Price Foundation.

I would also be cautious about drinking loads of juice daily if it is not organic. The person drinking this could be ingesting more than their share of pesticides and other agricultural chemicals.

Do you have a question?
Email Gary: gary at myotec.co.nz (Replace the "at" with @ and remove spaces). Please include any relevant background information to your question.