Unlocking Eden: Revolutionize Your Health, Maximize Your Immunity, Restore Your Vitality by Belt Daniel & Horn Joe

Author:Belt, Daniel & Horn, Joe [Belt, Daniel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Defender
Published: 2020-07-04T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 7: NUTRITION AND GUT HEALTH

We discussed earlier how modern farming practices have made it more difficult to obtain healthy food. Between chemicals sprayed on crops and the depletion of our soil through over-farming, even foods that pose as the healthiest can be devoid of nutrition.

Before we move on, let’s take a minute to define nutrition. A nutrient is an agent that carries into the body a means of both survival and nourishment for thriving. It’s primarily delivered to our bodies in the form of carbohydrates, proteins, and fats;200 but other vehicles of nutrition are vitamins, minerals, fiber, water, and oxygen. Nutrients include two categories: micronutrients and macronutrients. The first category includes those we can live on small quantities of, while the second, the macros, are nutrients we require in larger measures. An example of a micronutrient is iron, while macronutrients include substances like water and protein.201

MODERN HABITS SABOTAGE OUR HEALTH

We face an ironic paradox. While our society has more access to food than many previous generations, we’re more malnourished on average than those same ancestors. It seems odd that a populace with such wealth and abundant availability of food—and with such an obesity epidemic—would be suffering from deficiencies of some of the most basic nutrients. Yet, Dr.

Zack Bush points out an “inverse relationship” between being well-nourished and obese.202

(“Inverse” indicates “opposite”: When one number goes down on a chart, the other one comes up, and vice versa). This is counterintuitive: You would think that an obese person would have no nutritional deficiencies because of plentiful access to food. However, this assumption hinges on the concept that obesity is caused by eating large quantities of healthy food , which is rarely

the case these days. Many individuals are surprised to learn that their health problems stem from the fact that they are extremely undernourished.

In addition to the fact that our food is depleted of many of its nutrients, there is (again) the issue of circadian rhythm where sustenance is concerned. Recall that previous generations only had access to food for about twelve hours a day, because once it was dark outside, they didn’t go out in pursuit of it. Many people only ate about two meals a day, and those who ate three didn’t snack. Thus, nutrients were ingested in proportion to the body’s rhythm and need, and didn’t fight against the its systems. This allowed the physiology to fully absorb and benefit from the nourishment ingested.

DEPLETION OF NUTRITION

In 2004, the Journal of the American College of Nutrition published a report based on a USDA analysis comparing produce grown in 1950 and 1999. The results showed that produce appearing the same actually showed a vast decline in nutrients in just forty-nine years. For example, radishes saw a 50 percent decline in calcium and protein, a 10 percent drop in phosphorous, and a whopping 75 percent decrease in vitamin A. Tomatoes had fallen 15 percent in protein, 30

percent in ash, 45 percent in calcium, 12 percent in phosphorous, 25 percent in iron, and 50

percent in vitamin A.

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