Obesity

It may be hard to think of overweight people as being undernourished but think about it. Our bodies require all of the essential elements to go about their business of building, maintaining and restoring themselves. When the food you eat doesn't contain enough of the elemental building blocks, your body signals your brain to tell you to eat more. It is quite natural for you to willingly oblige and when you do it is quite natural for your body to store those extra calories as fat. If your body was getting everything it needed it wouldn't be hungry and if it wasn't hungry you wouldn't be fat. Sound simple, it is! Weight control is a natural function of your body. Simply give it what it needs and it will respond. Let’s play Sherlock Holmes for a few minutes, let’s begin at the beginning and follow the deductive reasoning that illustrates these simple facts.

• First Fact: Your body is a self replicating machine, it continuously replaces worn or damaged parts.
• Second Fact: Your body must have daily supply of essential elements in order to perform the critical tasks of maintaining, rebuilding and replacing itself.
• Third Fact: The food you eat contains only minimal amounts and sometimes none of most of the essential elements your body needs.
• Fourth Fact: When you don’t get the nutrients you need, your brain signals you to eat.
• Fifth Fact: When you eat more calories than your body can burn, many are stored for later use as fat.

The chart below the pyramid illustrates what is actually in the food we eat.  It has been known for a long time that essential elements were not in our foods but before now there was little that could be done about it.

The elements listed below are the known elements that make up the human body. oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, sulfur, sodium, chlorine, magnesium, iron, fluorine, zinc, silicon, rubidium, strontium, bromine, lead, copper, aluminum, cadmium, cerium, barium, iodine, tin, titanium, boron, nickel, selenium, chromium, manganese, arsenic, lithium, cesium, mercury, germanium, molybdenum, cobalt, antimony, silver, niobium, zirconium, lanthanum, gallium, tellurium, yttrium, bismuth, thallium, indium, gold, scandium, tantalum, vanadium, thorium, uranium, samarium, beryllium, tungsten

Below is the Governments Food Pyramid.  It is supposed to represent the perfect diet.  So what's wrong with this picture?

1.  Commercial Growers remove minerals from the    soil each time they harvest a crop. 2.   Minerals are lost naturally through erosion. 3. Only a few minerals necessary to produce attractive plants and high yields are replaced.  Usually only two or three. 4. Plants are hybrid and selected for their appearance and ability to produce high yields economically, not for their nutritional value.

If the minerals critical to health aren't in the soil, how can they be in the crops?  The obvious answer is, they aren't.  To prove our conclusions we went shopping.  We purchased all of the fresh fruits and vegetables in the pyramid, put them in a blender and then took them to a commercial laboratory for analysis.  The following chart shows what we found.

1.  Many essential elements are not there at all.

2.  Of the ones that are there you would have to eat a rather large amount to get your minimum requirement.  For instance:

9.9 Pounds to get a minimum daily requirement of iron

12.57 Pounds for Calcium

8.8 Pounds for Zinc

6.94 Pounds for Phosphorus

4.4 Pounds for Copper

Starting to get the picture?

Certificate of analysis reported in mg/kg  

We feel we would be remiss by presenting a problem without a solution, so here it is!

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