Nutrition No Bullsh$t

Standing in line at any modern supermarket, it may appear inconceivable that anyone today could have a deficiency of vitamins or minerals.  But behind all those pretty signs and bright colors, its all just smoke and mirrors.

THIS IS THE PROBLEM FOLKS!------>

Consider, for just a minute that about 25% of all calories we eat comes from added sugar, which contains nothing besides empty calories.  Right off the bat cross out 1/4 of your diet as a potential for vitamins.
If we do not take into consideration those who do not drink alcohol at all, those that drink at least a couple drinks a week consume 25% of all calories from alcohol. Sooo between the sugar and the booze, the average person is getting approx. 1/2 of his daily calorie input from nutritional blanks.
More calories in a typical modern diet come from processed fats: salad oils, cooking oils and fats added to almost everything!  Such fats contain only traces of vitamins and may constitute another 30% of empty bullsh$t calories.

Put all those together and you can see that the same technology that keeps us fat, happy and entertained  has also made it possible to waste almost 80% of our daily diets on food that couldn't keep a sewer rat alive and healthy.

EAT MORE RAW!

Food Processing and Prep: the Vitamin Massacre

A whole healthy food is a different animal when its caged in a can, freezer packed or in a box.  Potatoes, for instance are potentially a regular, reliable source of vitamin C.  But today, many people eat potatoes reconstituted from instant mixes, not realizing that these potato products contain no vitamin C whatsoever.  Figures for citrus fruits(a staple source of vitamin C) are not much better.  Orange juice from a cardboard carton has up to 30% less vitamin C than fresh squeezed juice.  That wouldn't be so bad, but 40% of whats left of the vitamin C is biologically inactive(of no use at all). 

For years the USDA believed that a 6 oz pork loin delivered 5.4 mg of iron a substantial amount.  But recently the USDA has discovered that pork contains only 1.62 mg, 70% less than thought.  Beef the most popular meat in America contains 20% less iron than originally thought. 

Today there are more than 3,000 chemicals used in the commercial food we eat.  And in one way or another many of them are nutrient and immune system antagonist.  The plants we grow are deficient, so in turn we take them a boil the crap out of them, or steam them or even worse microwave those bad boys.  And as a result they contain 20% the original nutritional content after molecular destabilization by cooking.

Vitamin Deficiencies: USDA Stats

The following list highlights the principle vitamins and minerals that were found to be deficient in a recent study conducted with 40,000 Americans.

Calcium: 68% very unsatisfactory results EAT YOUR DAIRY.  This is why levels of osteoporosis and arthritis are so high. 

Iron:  57% this is a weird phenomenon considering our meat consumption is high but our iron is low this could be contributed to the fact that roughly 55% of Americans consume Aspirin regularly which leads to an iron deficiency.

Magnesium:  75% reasons being the body excretes magnesium when stressed i.e. most of America lol

Vitamin A:  50% if you don't know someone with it you have it.  Increase your spinach intake.

Vitamin B12:  34% essential for energy and healthy mental function.  Eat your peanuts.

Vitamin C:  45% If there is any vitamin you do not want to be deficient in it is Vitamin C.  RDA is       listed at 60mg but research proves that levels of 500-1000mg a day are optimum levels.

Niacin: 33%  Niacin shortages lead to depression and large amounts can cure Alcoholism.

Vitamin B6:  80%  Essential for energy and mental clarity shortages have been linked to schizophrenia.

Now these are only the Vitamins and minerals, these statistics are unsatisfactory for the level of luxury that we live in these times.  If we can create ipods and robot dogs and crap we can learn to give our bodies what it needs to survive properly.