Ray D. Strand
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 Organic fertilizers that contain these minerals are expensive and difficult to obtain. U.S. farmers manage their costs by using fertilizers that replenish the soil with only nitrogen, phosphorous, and potassium
(called NPK). With these NPK fertilizers, farmers are able to grow good-looking grains and produce, though the crops remain depleted in all the other necessary minerals. Unfortunately, economics is the driving force behind American agriculture, causing farmers to be more concerned about bushels per acre than the nutrient content of the food they harvest. |
Michael Pollan
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 Halweil cites a considerable body of research demonstrating that plants grown with industrial fertilizers are often nutritionally inferior to the same varieties grown in organic soils. Why this should be so is uncertain, but there are a couple of hypotheses. Crops grown with chemical fertilizers
*The news of declining nutrient levels in American produce prompted The Packer, a trade publication for the produce industry, to suggest that this might actually be good for business, because people would now need to eat more produce to get the same nutritional benefit. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 Chemical "NPK" fertilizers (composed of nitrogen, phosphorous, and potassium) have been widely used in agriculture for over a century. These fertilizers stimulate plant growth by returning just three minerals to the soil, which normally contains scores of minerals. In this way, the soil is made deficient in those critical trace minerals that are not resupplied.This is similar to the situation we have created by "enriching" refined foods. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| See "Coffee" in the Resources section)
• If you must drink coffee, use only organic varieties to help reduce the number of pesticides, fertilizers, and other contaminants from commercial coffee growing techniques.
• Drink plenty of water with raw organic Apple Cider Vinegar to help renew your body and provide you with more energy. You may even find you don't need that "boost" from caffeinated products anymore!
• Clean your colon weekly to prevent irritation and excess acid in the bowel caused by regular coffee consumption. |
| Wood preservatives account for 90 percent of the arsenic used in American industry, but it can also be found in paints, metals, prescription and recreational drugs, soaps, and fertilizers, and occurs as a byproduct of mining, copper smelting, and coal burning.
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X Fig. IX: 2001 United States Geological Survey - Arsenic concentration in U.S. homes.
Ground water sources can contain especially high concentrations of arsenic since the metal can leech out of adjacent rocks. The EPA has set a standard of 10 (ig/L (ten micrograms per liter) as an acceptable level for tap water. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 Silo-filler's disease came to the fore in the 1950s, with the use of nearly airtight, enclosed metal feed silos for corn silage raised with high nitrogen content fertilizers, conditions highly effective in producing toxic gas.5 Farmers who unwittingly entered silos in the first few days after filling were sometimes overcome. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 A combination of chemical exposures in the five-town area includes those from pesticides, fertilizers, zinc smelting, heavy industrial manufacturing, unexploded weapons stored at a now defunct army depot, and toxic waste sites housing city sludge transported to the area from Chicago.
Likewise, a heightened incidence of lupus in a small African-American community in Georgia has been attributed to environmental pollutants from industrial sources. In a four-year study of Choctaw Native Americans in southeastern Oklahoma, researchers found a higher than average occurrence of scleroderma. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 Fruits and vegetables are doused with fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides. Thousands of chemicals are routinely added to canned and processed foods to improve taste and extend shelf life. Livestock are regularly injected with growth hormones to increase salable flesh yields and massive amounts of antibiotics to stave off diseases before slaughter and eventual serving on our dinner tables.
Sadly, shockingly, our toxic exposure doesn't end there. |
| The bulk of the 90 nutrients essential to human health have been depleted from the soil by fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, irrigation, acid rain and other factors. Then during food processing up to two-thirds of vitamin and mineral levels in most foods are eliminated. To make matters worse, when food processors claim to fortify these foods by adding vitamins and minerals, they are inserting chemicals that imitate, not really replace, the natural nutrients found in food. These are poor imitations that may do more harm than good. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Whatever is contained in modern chemical fertilizers (nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium) may be sufficient to raise normal-looking crops; yet the healthy-looking plant foods are short of minerals, which is reflected in their poor taste. This may cause some mineral deficiencies in the body. We are consistently missing out on the majority of minerals. And if the digestive system does not function efficiently, a health crisis may arise. Almost every disease today is linked with or caused by a deficiency of one or several minerals or trace minerals. |
| To make them resistant against the bewildering number of possible enemies we give the plants synthetically derived poisons (insecticides, pesticides, and other fertilizers) to make up for the missing antibodies. We have effectively impaired the plants' immune systems, and without our chemical assistance, most cultivated plant foods would never reach the ripening stage.
By contrast, the wild-growing herbs have retained their immunity and know very well how to survive. They contain potent medicinal substances, which are nothing other than the plants' antibodies. |
| The situation worsened with the onset of chemical fertilizers that manipulate crops into growing more rapidly, with no regard to nutrient availability. When minerals and trace elements run low in the body, important functions can no longer be sustained, or become subdued. Disease is generally accompanied by lack of one or more of these important substances. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| Large companies are buying up farmland and using chemical fertilizers to force-produce crop after crop to amplify yields for increased demand. The ultimate result of these profit-driven farming practices is toxin-laced
Refined:
Meaning, a substance has undergone chemical or mechanical manipulation prior to consumption. crops with little nutritional value, not to mention the economic hardship of small-production farmers who cannot compete with multi-million dollar corporations.
Niacin (Nicotinic acid):
Part of the Vitamin-B complex made from the oxidation of nicotine. |
Ray D. Strand
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| We began with depleted nutrients in our soils, which NPK fertilizers made worse. Then came the hybrid grains that produced nutrient-depleted foods. Modern processing and food storage caused further depletion of the quality of our foods. We then take these foods home and continue to create further depletion because of storage and preparation. These all make good, solid arguments as to why we should be supplementing our diets with high-quality nutritional supplements.
You must understand, however, that these are not the primary reasons I recommend the use of nutritional supplementation. |
Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe
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 Now she contracted with the local co-operative of Maya cacao-farmers to pay 48 pence (75 cents) a pound—if they would give up the fertilizers and pesticides; so back went the Maya to their three-acre plots. They could now afford to send their children to secondary schools and their sick to distant hospitals. |
Ray D. Strand
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| NPK). With these NPK fertilizers, farmers are able to grow good-looking grains and produce, though the crops remain depleted in all the other necessary minerals. Unfortunately, economics is the driving force behind American agriculture, causing farmers to be more concerned about bushels per acre than the nutrient content of the food they harvest.
Few would argue about the quality of our foods and its decline compared to foods of a generation or two ago. Hybrid grains, vegetables, and fruits have increased in popularity. |
Ron Garner
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 Most food is grown in soils that have been depleted of minerals, and treated with chemical pesticides and fertilizers. It is picked before it has ripened and assembled all its nutrients. Next, it is processed and denatured of all its enzymes by being cooked in various ways. Once again, we end up with electrical matrices that are unnatural, distorted, incomplete, and toxic. Everything done to food changes its electrical matrix. Such food, when broken down by our bodies and processed for energy, lacks the correct configurations our cells require for energy and tissue construction. |
| In addition, there is a total dependence on chemical fertilizers and pesticides to grow produce. Depending on the soils they are grown on, there can be a significant difference between commercially grown and organically grown vegetables. One study concluded that organically grown foods were richer in minerals than commercially grown products. By comparison, there was 87% less content of magnesium, potassium, manganese, iron, and copper in conventionally grown foods. |
| Chemical fertilizers are not used. Studies have shown that organic produce contains significantly higher levels of minerals and fewer heavy metals than conventionally grown crops.13
READ THOSE LABELS!
We need to become aware of the ingredients that are in the products we consume, put on our body, or clean with. To do this, we must read labels!
If you are not already in this habit, you may be in for a surprise. For instance, most brands of toothpaste contain three ingredients that pose health risks if too much is ingested. |
| Commercially-produced fruits, and especially vegetables, are now deficient in vitamins and minerals due to the overfarm-ing of soils and the use of chemical fertilizers. These may satisfy our acquired tastes and hunger, but unfortunately, their mineral and vitamin content does not satisfy the body's cellular requirements for nutrition.
Advantages of Fresh Raw Fruit and Vegetable Juices
The advantages of consuming fresh raw fruit and vegetable juices over eating the actual fruits and vegetables are that they: are an alkaline meal with concentrated nutrients. |
| Garden Produce
When garden produce is grown commercially to be large-sized through the use of chemical fertilizers, herbicides, mineral-depleted soil, and poor quality water, it is lacking in gv and wl. Likewise, if it is harvested in its second half life cycle, it is deficient in gv and wl. The same can be said for average garden produce that reaches large sizes after months of growth.
There is a net dual benefit from growing produce with structured water where it can reach large sizes and still be in its first half life cycle, without producing seed. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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 However, the huge toxic load that can accumulate in these organs because of foods contaminated by chemicals from pesticides and fertilizers may severely compromise the bioenergetics of your stomach field. A further insult to your system may tesult from overconsumption of heavily processed and synthetic, lab-engineered foods.
In TCM, and as confirmed by NES research, your stomach field is bioenergetically linked to your lungs, heart, and muscles. The connection to muscles is especially strong because diet and nutrition in general affect muscle function. |
| Exacerbating her family medical history was Paula's use of tobacco and her environmental exposure to pesticides and fertilizers because she worked intermittently in commercial farming in rural Australia. She was on a regular regime of pharmaceuticals, including medications to thin her blood and help control high blood pressure and an elevated cholesterol level.
In 2002, Paula failed a stress test. An angiogram revealed that the main artery to her heart was 80 percent blocked. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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 Moreover, the vast majority of plants are grown with petrochemical fertilizers, which have existed for only the past fifty years. If you think for one
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A doctor in his early forties on staff at the hospital where I practice, Thomas is thin and committed to his daily regimen of running. He ate rice, pasta, and whole wheat bread; drank skim milk and several glasses of pure vegetable and fruit juices a day; and eschewed all fat. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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 Among the typical stressors are toxic metals (mercury leaching from fillings, aluminum), petrochemical residues (from pesticides and fertilizers), chemical pollutants (in the water and air), electromagnetic pollution (from power lines), undiagnosed food allergies, nutritional deficiencies, biochemical imbalances, insufficient exercise, and emotional stress. All these factors impinge on the immune system's natural ability to resist the downhill slide into illness. |
Michael Pollan
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| And while it's true that the organic label guarantees that no synthetic pesticides or fertilizers have been used to produce the food, many, if not most, of the small farms that supply farmers' markets are organic in everything but name.To survive in the farmers' market or CSA economy, a farm will need to be highly diversified, and a diversified farm usually has little need for pesticides; it's the big monocultures that can't survive without them. |
Stacy Malkan
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 At first my son-in-law wouldn't give up the fertilizers," Carolyn said. "But he finally did give it up, and do you know when that happened — when he had kids." The family is now using all unscented products and has switched to organic food. toxic to the brain) that should be thoroughly investigated so we might better understand the impact to human health.18 But government and industry have been slow to demand or fund such research. The FDA has taken no action on a petition submitted to the agency in 1999 requesting fragrance components be listed on labels. |
David R. Montgomery
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 The growth of mechanized industrial agriculture promoted rapid soil loss as farmers spenr their narural capiral ro service loans for machinery and fertilizers.
Records at Woburn Experimental Farm, established about twenty-five miles north of London in 1876 by England's Royal Agricultutal Society, inadvertently documented the effects of changing agricultural practices on soil erosion. The first half century of crop yield experiments recorded little erosion. After the Second World War, the introduction of herbicides and heavy farm machinery changed that. |
| As early as 1760, he used marl (crushed limestone), manure, and gypsum as fertilizers and plowed crops of grass, peas, and buckwheat back into his fields. He built barns for cattle in order ro harvest manure, and instructed reluctant plantation managers to sptead the waste from livestock pens onto the fields. He experimented with crop rotations before finally settling on a system that involved interspersing grains with potatoes and clover or other grasses. Washington also experimented with deep plowing to reduce runoff and retard erosion. |
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