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  • From: "Desert Eagle" <jimi@hdc-nm.com>
  • To: "Desert Eagle" <jimi@hdc-nm.com>
  • Subject: [Livingontheland] USDA's Nutritional Values Plummet...
  • Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:07:45 -0700

You Need 10 Servings of Vegetables to Equal Just One Serving from 50 Years
Ago!1
Just One of the Vital Minerals Lost was Regulating More than 300 Critical
Body Functions.

The Same Thing Is Happening to Your Fruit.
These days, the produce you buy at your local grocery store just doesn’t
have the nutritional power that fruits and vegetables had just a few decades
ago. Over farming, soil depletion, commercial fertilizer, hybrid crops and
genetic modifications are slashing the nutrients found in your fruits and
vegetables.
You’d have to eat 10 servings of spinach to get the same level of minerals
from just one serving about 50 years ago.2
Producers create “hybrid” forms of your fruits and vegetables – not for
their ability to store nutrients – but for their color, weight and shelf
life. Why? So they’ll look nice and pretty when they sit under the
fluorescent lights of your supermarket.
You may think they look nutritious, but “under the hood,” they contain
little more than indigestible cellulose, sugar and water.
To help protect you from this tragedy, I created a formula of powerful
“green foods” that gives you the nutrient power of over 9 pounds of assorted
vegetables – all from drinking a naturally fortified glass of juice or
water… Just mix in 2 teaspoons and you’re done!
If you want all those many benefits of fruits and vegetables, this
breakthrough is very exciting news!
Your Food Supply has Changed:
You’re Eating Fruit with No Vitamins… Vegetables with No Minerals…
We first began to know that there was a problem back in 1936. A group of
doctors introduced Document No. 264 to the floor of the United States
Senate. It was a dire warning that the mineral content of the soil was
eroding. Vegetables were losing their power and people were at risk.
Unfortunately congress did nothing.
Today, we’re feeling the effects…
For instance, just look at the US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA)
nutritional values for fruits and vegetables today compared to 1975.3
Take a look at the loss of Vitamins and Minerals Since 1975:


Apples, Vitamin A is down 41%

Sweet Peppers, Vitamin C is down 31%

Watercress, Iron is down 88%

Broccoli, Calcium and Vitamin A are down 50%

Cauliflower, Vitamin C is down 45%; Vitamin B1 is down 48%; and Vitmain B2
is down 47%

Collards Greens, Vitamin A is down 45%; Potassium is down 60%; and Magnesium
is down 85%
According to USDA’s own numbers, the vitamin and mineral content has
dramatically plummeted – in just 30 years!
Notice minerals like iron and magnesium have dropped by more than 80
percent. That’s from commercial farming technology and powerful fertilizers
that practically sterilize the soil – leaving it with little to no mineral
content.
If the soil doesn’t have minerals, there’s no way for vegetables to absorb
them.
And that’s bad news for your health… Magnesium regulates over 300 body
functions – every day and is critical to heart health and healthy glucose
metabolism.*

But the story doesn’t end there. I wasn’t the only one to realize your
fruits and vegetables don’t pack the nutritional punch they used to… A
report from the University of Texas in Austin, also tracked the decline of
nutrients in produce.
They reported findings at a recent meeting of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science in St. Louis. They found significant drops in a
wide range of produce across the board, including a 20 percent decline in
vitamin C and a 38 percent plunge in vitamin B2.
What’s worse, fruit and vegetable growers create “hybrids” for the sake of
making their produce “look better.” They actually create new versions of all
your favorites so they have more water, more sugar, more pith (the
indigestible support tissue like the white fibrous netting around an orange
section) and less of everything else.
Growers call this the “dilution effect.” For them, more water and more pith
helps their produce ship well, look good and weigh a lot. But it virtually
wipes out their vitamin and mineral content.
The plunge in nutrients in your produce over the last 30 to 50 years is bad
enough. But it's rapidly getting much worse. Genetic hybrids are pushing
nutrient values even lower.
A popular broccoli hybrid called “Marathon” is an alarming example:
By the USDA’s own admission, levels of calcium and magnesium in the Marathon
hybrid are 35 percent lower than other hybrids. The hybrids themselves are
50 percent lower in calcium and magnesium than “normal” broccoli. And the
“normal” broccoli has less than half the calcium and magnesium than broccoli
did in 1975!
In less than 50 years, the mineral, vitamin and antioxidant value native to
fruits and vegetables has been virtually “destroyed” – robbing you of the
natural vital nutrients you need every day.





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