Depleted Soil, Food, Body~ Nutrients to Complete Life Cycle ~Monsanto etal

Vitamins and minerals are not functionally separable. They make each other work.

Mineral deficiencies can cause vitamin deficiencies, and vice versa. Epidemic mineral deficiency in America is a well-documented result of systematic soil depletion. So that is the other prime difference between whole food vitamins and synthetics: whole food vitamins contain within them many essential trace minerals necessary for their synergistic operation.

Synthetic vitamins contain no trace minerals, relying on, and depleting, the body’s own mineral reserves.

Following the German agricultural methods of Von Leibig in the mid-1800s, American farmers found that NPK (nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium) was all that was necessary for crops to look good.
As long as NPK is added to the soil, crops can be produced and sold year after year from the same soil. They look OK. But the trace minerals vital for human nutrition are virtually absent from most American soil after all these years. Many of these minerals, such as zinc, copper, and magnesium, are necessary co-factors of vitamin activity.

Depleted topsoil is one simple, widespread mechanism of both vitamin and mineral deficiency in American produce today. This doesn’t even take into account the tons of poisonous herbicides and pesticides dumped on crops.
American agri-business has one motive: profit. Such a focus has resulted in an output of empty produce and a nation of unhealthy people. The earth’s immune system is its soil. To be vital and capable of growing vital foods, soil must be rich in both minerals and soil-based organisms – life forms. Healthy produce naturally resists insects. Insects are like bad bacteria in the body: they are attracted to diseased tissue, though they do not cause it.

http://www.thedoctorwithin.com/vitaminc/ascorbic-acid-is-not-vitamin-c/#sthash.dQFJ2jbW.dpuf

Sunday, August 11, 2013

“Stunning” Difference of GM from non-GM Corn" ~Formaldehyde~ ~NO NUTRITION~

A comparison of US Midwest non-GM with GM corn shows shockingly high levels of glyphosate as well as formaldehyde, and severely depleted of mineral nutrients in the GM corn Dr Mae-Wan Ho

The results of a comparison of GM and non-GM corn from adjacent Midwest fields in the US in Table 1.

Table 1   Comparison between GM and non-GM corn grown side by side*

	Parts per million (ppm)
Ingredient	GM corn	Non-GM corn
Glyphosate	13	0
Formaldehyde	200	0
Nitrogen	7	46
Phosphorus	3	44
Potassium	7	113
Calcium	14	6 130
Magnesium	2	113
Sulphur	3	42
Manganese	2	14
Iron	2	14
Zinc	2.3	14.3
Copper	2.6	16
Molybdenum	0.2	1.5
Boron	0.2	1.5
Selenium	0.6	0.3
Cobalt	0.2	1.5

*The GM corn was grown in a field that has been no-till, continuous GM corn (Roundup Ready) for 5-10 years and with a glyphosate herbicide weed control regime for all of the 10 years. The Non-GM corn has not had glyphosate (or Roundup) applied to the field for at least five years. The GM corn test weight was 57.5 lb; and non-GMCorn test weight 61.5 lb.

http://fightforyourhealth.blogspot.com/2013/08/stunning-difference-of-gm-from-non-gm.html