Virtually everywhere you look today, one can observe some of the results of our lifestyles. It is now being observed in our schools, beginning at the elementary level all the way up to graduation in their senior year. Our society has to come to grip with what is certainly now emerging into an epidemic. There are diet advertisers who certainly try to capitalise on the adult obesity issues and since great emphasis has been aired in the media, the problem at the adult level, we are told, has only become worse. The federal, state, local government and even individual schools and school districts have begun changing cafeteria meal formats, removing obvious junk food vending machine suppliers.
Our Denatured Grain
For many decades our food supplies have been modified, slowly and very gradually. In the beginning, here in the U.S., we have seen some changes in the processing of our grains, where the germ of the wheat was removed. Enriched Flour (wheat) is wheat flour (no bran or germ) that has been enriched with some B vitamins...thiamin, riboflavin and niacin and may include Vitamin D, iron and calcium that are lost during flour processing.
A Harvest of Depleted Nutrients
Besides the enrichment processes of our grains after harvesting, our farm fields are highly saturated with chemical fertilizers, which have caused depletion of many of the more critical minerals such as Selenium, Magnesium, etc.. At one time the consumer got most of the full daily requirement of nutrients when they purchased their grain, but now, the processing industry would have to "replace" the nutrients lost in the growing process...but no enrichment could ever fulfill the original plant requirements. As of late, a possible solution to this problem was introduced to the consumer. It had been around for a long time, but now had found its niche. Organic farming would become an avenue for the consumer to purchase their vegetables and fruits "aux naturales" from government certified farmers.
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