Nutrition facts – what the media is not telling you about super foods

[artcanthurtu]

In years past, it was really true that we could get all of the nutrition we needed from our diets. Back then, the soil was rich and nutritive, and imparted all of its benefits to the food we could grow for ourselves as well. In addition, because food was both seasonal and local, there wasn't much time or distance between when the food was plucked from the ground and when it appeared on our dinner tables.

Now, however, times have changed. Not only have our diets themselves become more poor through extreme processing, reliance on fast foods and prepackaged convenience foods, and decreasing consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables and whole grains, but the soil itself has become depleted, which means the foods grown in it are simply not as nutritional as these to be.

Where does this leave us, then? Popular media does not tell us that in fact, even if you eat a completely nutritious diet, it's very hard for you to get all of the nutrition you need from your food itself. Because the nutrition itself has been depleted from the soil, and because contaminants like pollution, pesticides and chemicals fertilizers have become ever more present in our foods, we need to ingest extra nutrition that simply doesn't come from our normal diet.

In addition, modern transportation techniques mean that the food we eat often comes from far distances; because it is not eaten right after picking, this food can simply sit on the shelf or in a refrigerated truck, and by the time we get to it, it will have lost a lot of its original nutritional value because it took so long to get to us.

With all of this difficulty getting nutrition even from healthy foods, what are we to do?

Enter super foods. Super foods such as super green powders, nutritional yeast, and other forms of whole foods supplementation can help ensure that we get all the nutrition we need, simply and easily. Super green powders such as those that contain spirulina contain complete nutrition, high antioxidant levels, and beneficial "green vegetable" nutrients such as chlorophyll, for best health. That is some real nutrition facts!

To be healthier and to slow down the aging process, then, we need to ingest super foods to ensure that we get the most out of our diets. Not only do super foods give us better nutrition, but they also help us absorb the nutrition from our regular diets more completely as well.

It's not yet widely known that supplementing with super foods can solve the problem of nutritional depletion, and therefore, the popular media has not yet jumped on this bandwagon. Rest assured when it does, however, that this will be in the news as one more way to not only ensure better health, but increase energy, fight aging and enjoy life more.

[HealthyLauren]

Jul. 6, 2008 at 5:32 PM

I have to say, I really wish that more people realized how nutritionally poor some of our current food options are. I was looking at the tomatos in my grocery store yesterday and even in a health food store they're just pale comparisons to the ones at the farmer's market. Which I'm sure pale in comparison to the ones that my great-grandmother used to eat on the farm.

It's great that there are still some foods left which will give us proper nutrition and keep us from becoming malnourished. It's also so much healthier to use foods as diet supplements instead of using some kind of factory-produced chemicals which aren't what normal people are supposed to be eating. I wonder if in the future people really will eat nothing but chemicals. I hope that if they do, they use plenty of super foods, otherwise I doubt people's bodies will handle them right.