Micronutrients

On one of my earlier blogs I posed the question regarding Malnutrition and whether this was the cause of most modern diseases. Since then I’ve been reading a lot of different books/blogs on the subject and the evidence (although not conclusive) is very compelling. 

I’ve already spoken at length about Naked Calories by Jayson & Mira Carlton. Since then I’ve read numerous books/blogs on the same subject. One of the best books I’ve read is Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Dr Weston Price, this book was written almost 100 years ago but don’t underestimate the potency of the message, I would argue this book is more relevant today than at any time in its history.  

Naked Calories and Nutrition & Physical Degeneration have common themes running through the books. Both talk at length about nutrition, and both have done extensive studies in numerous countries which include some of the remotest communities on earth. What both books have highlighted is that there is a strong coloration between modern disease and urbanisation. To put it simply, the more urbanised the communities the more likelihood there is of that community being riddled with what are known as “modern diseases” e.g. Cancer, Strokes, Heart Disease, Diabetes, etc.  (I deliberately used the phrase urbanised and not civilised because we can learn a lot about health from these remote communities.)

The obvious question that one must ask is why? Why were these remote communities healthier than their urban counterparts?

The answer to this question is quite simple but hard to comprehend.

In the Naked Calories the Carlton’s go into this in a lot more detail than I will here but to put it simply we urbanised communities simply do not get enough micronutrients.

From seed to our plates we will always struggle to get all the nutrients we need from our food. So as an example let’s take the humble Tomato. According to numerous websites an average sized Tomato should give us around 25% of your RDA in Vitamin C. However this isn’t the whole truth, because you then have to take away what is lost because it was grown in deleted soil. What about the fact it was picked before it had a chance to ripen on the vine? Let’s not forget the distribution from the farm to the supermarket. Then we need to consider the time it’s stored at the supermarket and in our fridges. And finally we have to remember that most Tomatoes are used for cooking and not in salads. All these will deplete that Tomato of a large portion of the Vitamin C. So we may think we’re getting 25% of our RDA in Vitamin C by eating that Tomato but in actual fact we’re only getting a very small portion of it. 

The next question how do we ensure we get all the nutrients from that Tomato that we have paid for?

The answer to this question is that there seems to be a way to tell but I’ve only just discovered it and need to investigate a lot further before I am confident in explaining it. However, let me explain a few ways to ensure you get a better return on your investment. One of the things I’ve come across is that you cannot tell simply by looking, smelling or even tasting the product to gauge whether it is rich in micronutrient or not. If you buy locally produced organic products then the chances are that you have increased your odds in getting a lot more micronutrients. However, organics is just a farming method and cannot guarantee the quality of the product. 

In my next blog I’ll write about something called RBTI which stands for Reams Biological Theory of Ionization. I don’t fully understand this just yet so I’m reluctant to go into too much detail at this present time, however what Dr Reams discovered was that there was a coloration between a particular fruit or vegetable’s sugar content and the amount of micronutrient it contained. So if we go back to our example of the Tomato then if we were to examine two separate Tomatoes, then the one with the highest sugar content would also be the one that had the highest micronutrients.

But Dr Reams went a lot further than simply working out how to check the micronutrients of fruit and vegetables. He also discovered the equation for perfect health which is.

I’ve just started to read about what each of these numbers mean and I can tell you my BSometer is on high alert. However I will keep an open mind as I investigate this further.  

Ammo