You Are WHAT You Eat

[Monica]

I see figures such as that bandied about on the internet, and they strike me as quackery (unlike, I would guess, most people on this discussion board, I've actually done some laboratory analysis of foodstuffs for nutritional content).

Have you ever compared organically-grown produce with commercially-grown produce?

I have seen data from the USDA showing that commercially-grown foods are mere shadows of their former selves. The most striking example given was that one would have to consume 75 bowls of today's spinach to equal the iron content of a single bowl of circa-1948 spinach.

Not to mention the loss of micronutrients, which the mainstream doesn't even seem to care about.

This data came from comparing old USDA documents to current ones. Of course there's no way, short of going back in time, to actually test 1948 produce!

The "International academy of Nutrition & Preventive Medicine" has a high-sounding name, but it's not accepted as legitimate by those few mainstream nutritionists who even bother paying attention to it.

Well, I guess it all depends on which paradigm one chooses to accept. Personally, I trust the natural/alternative/holistic community waaaaaaaaay more than the mainstream medical community. No question.