Does Your Food have the Nutrition You Need

It is an interesting fact that during the War (WW2) in England the shortage of food and medicines forced many people to return to the old ways of growing food in your own yard. Many lawns were ripped up and potatoes and tomatos started appearing. The revival of interest in gardening was motivated by need but the benefits to the average gardener was improved health. The levels of reported heart disease and cancers fell dramatically during those years and many researchers attribute this to the simple diet made up of fresh organic fruits and vegetables.

 Stress

This is even more interesting when you consider the stress that people must have been under  during the years of the blitz. Yet despite that health as a whole was pretty good.

When I first read about this I was intrigued and it sparked a series of questions in my mind.

Wholesome food

I have had a great deal of interest in the benefits of wholesome food for many years. I have tried to eat well and get plenty of rest but I still suffered from the odd malady and some more serious illnesses from time to time.So I did some research and it became clear that the food I was eating may be whole, unprocessed fruit and vegetables but maybe it was still lacking something. That something turned out to be the essential components we now know as vitamins and minerals.

Nutrition and the Soil

You see the food you eat is only ever going to be as good as the soil from which it was grown. If the soil was lacking in say an element like, selenium, then it is clear the fruit would also be low in this nutrient. So there you are eating away and thinking all is well but in fact you are short of an essential nutrient.

Vitamin and Mineral Supplements

Once I understood that this may be the case with the food I was buying and feeding to my family I decided to get more information on how to make up for the missing elements. After quite a bit of reading and searching through many websites I came to the conclusion that I may need to supplement my diet in order to attain a more complete supply of nutrients.

So today it is quite common to see multivitamins and fish oil tablets in our cupboard next to the  cereal boxes since the taking of a range of supplements is now part of our daily routine.