(02-28-2010, 03:31 PM)Bring4th_Monica Wrote: The foods we are currently eating are all denatured to some degree, compared to their ancestors. According to USDA figures, it takes 75 bowls of today's spinach to equal the iron content of 1 bowl of spinach from 60 years ago. The US has had its wheat refused by other countries because it had no protein. Many oranges on the supermarket shelves have zero vitamin C! Any random sampling of lettuce has as many as 90 different chemicals on it.
In short, the foods we're eating are but shadows of their former selves!
I would like to research this fact more before I accept it. Could you please provide a link for this information that we now have less nutritional content in the food from 60 years ago? Oranges with 0 vitamin C?
I think many people have developed bad food habits but they are still living longer than ever before. I just did a quick search and found that between 1970 and 2004 the life expectancy increased by around 5 years for all racial groups.
Although I do agree with the statement that new research about the nuts have changed the landscape.