Growing up in the South, someone in the family always had a vegetable garden growing. The full, fresh taste of hand-picked veggies and the vitamins and minerals that they delivered to our bodies was just “a given.” The food really had taste back then! If you didn’t like sweet potato or spinach, you really didn’t like the actual taste of that vegetable. The delivery of truly “nutritiously rich” foods affects our human bodies at the cellular level. Today, to get the true taste and cellular advantage of these same foods requires spending more at the grocery store to buy organic or you’re relegated to the tasteless, super sludge of what is increasingly becoming genetically altered crops.

Never in my younger years, did I ever think that I would be living in a country whose land has lost 85% of its mineral and nutritional value due to many variables, variables which include the loss of top soil, irrigation factors and the over use of synthetic, inorganic nitrogen fertilizers. Around the world European soil has depleted 72%, Canada 85% and Asia 76%.

Without the adequate nutrition from minerals we should receive in our foods, our bodies are left vulnerable to disease, malnutrition and a host of chronic symptoms that affect our everyday life. I know, because I am living it right now. My health issues have become my catalyst to research and understand what has happened not only to me but to all of us and our nutritional histories.

The minerals we received back in the 1950’s from the family garden came from a soil that was full of organic material with biologically active soil microbes that contained lots of minerals. The soil held complex, carbon-based nutrients that produced high grade, dense foods. Today, the minerals in harvested foods are vastly depleted.

In recent years a new synthetic fertilizer, an inorganic, petroleum based product has been over applied to our farmlands and has destroyed the natural balance of carbon in our soil. And to add insult to injury the USDA does not address nutritional values of food…only the size, shape and color. Leaving us with pretty… but non-nutritional foods.

Addressing our nutrition level today will require us to grow organic, to buy organic and to supplement our bodies at the cellular level with the vital minerals and nutrients that are essential for our good health and well being. It is an investment in ourselves, our families and stronger bodies capable of operating at the natural, organic optimum that God intended.

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