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Soil Depletion – Pass the Broccoli

When I learned this info on the state of our farm soil it turned my head! I had no idea this was happening in the land of plenty, the United States. I am not known in my family as very “scientific” but this information made me really evaluate my diet.

Here’s a little know fact that is having a major impact on our health. The soils in the United States are DEPLETED of nutrients. This info comes from the 1992 Earth Summit in Brazil. It reported that soil depletion is a worldwide epidemic with the United States topping the chart with 85% of its soil depleted. You would think that with all the modern technology available to farmers, this would not be a problem. The technology is the main reason the soils are depleted. The crops are planted over and over again with high volume and high productivity as the goal. Very little nutrients are put back into the soil, and the ones that are returned are simply to reach that goal. Nutrition of the plant is not a consideration. So, if the nutrients are not in the soil, guess what, they are not in the plants either!!!!

Americans are the most overfed society and yet we are the most malnourished. We are eating empty foods, void of trace minerals that existed in abundance 100 years ago. So, the broccoli looks just like the broccoli my grandfather ate on his farm in rural Kansas, but it is hugely different. To get the same amount of trace minerals that my grandpa got in one serving, I would have to eat a whole wheelbarrow full!!! I like broccoli just fine, but a wheelbarrow full would probably give me a really bad case of gas!!!!

Linus Pauling, a two time Nobel Prize winner for his work on vitamin C said, “Every ailment, every sickness and every disease can be traced back to an organic trace mineral deficiency.”  It is no surprise to me that our society is seeing diseases that did not exist 100 years ago. Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Lupus, ADD, ADHD, just to name a few were not around back then. We used to refer to Diabetes and Adult onset and Child Onset. Now, children are getting “Adult onset” as early as 5! So sad!

But don’t panic! We can get the nutrients and trace minerals, just not from the land….The Ocean! The Japanese have taught us about the ocean and what a huge nutritious salad bar it is. Japan has little land to farm on and they learned centuries ago to use the ocean as a resource for their food. They eat lots of sea vegetables that are nutrient dense. The oceans are chocked full of trace minerals. Sea vegetables obtain their nutrients through their leaves, not their roots like their land locked cousins. The benefit to the Japanese people is their disease rate is dramatically lower that the Americans. There are over 100,000 Japanese over 100 years old living healthy productive lives!!! Studies show that when Japanese move to the US and adopt a typical American diet, their disease rate does increase.

Wow!!!! Sea Vegetables gives us what is missing in our American diet. Who knew?????

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