Determining Food Quality – See With The Eyes Of An Insect
"Why don't insects eat high Brix fruits and vegetables? Well, since a high Brix plant emits a superior spectrum energy than the low Brix plants, insects will eat the plants with the weakest emanations. Insects have specialized eyes that see in this range and always go for the weakest species of crop. A Brix meter simulates the way insects see with their eyes."
I think the above quote can be attributed to Rex Harrill, though I am not sure about that.
To learn more about food quality and how to easily determine it at the point of sale (i.e. you don't need to have your own garden to find good food grown on high quality soil), see this earlier post of mine: The Revolution In Nutrition: How To Identify Good Food
For an excellent interview with Rex Harrill on why soil is so important and the refractometer (the "eyes" you will need to "see" as an insect) is your personal key to discovering what foods were grown or raised on healthy soil, see this article by Suze Fisher: The Quest For Nutrient Dense Food.
Finally, this chapter from one of the great nutritional clinicians of the last century should quickly bring you up to speed on the most ignored concept in modern nutrition circles: Dr. Weston Price on Food Is Fabricated Soil Fertility.
If you will take the above to heart and apply it to your daily diet you may be able to avoid many of the metabolic issues that plague so many consumers of SAD, i.e. the Standard American Diet, such that even when adopting a better nutritional paradigm, optimal health takes a long time to achieve or is never fully achieved.
Oh yeah, if you juxtapose the work of Dr. Carey Reams on Brix as applied to human health and Dr. Melvin Page on body chemistry issues I think you will see a lot of similarities. They are not the same by any stretch of the imagination, but they were looking in the same direction when it comes to human health.
Any paradigm which takes into account individual metabolic differences is bound to save you from the one size fits all nonsense out there like "carbohydrates make you fat" or "fat makes you fat" (among many other equally narrow concepts).
Neither (even consumed in large quantities) per se makes you fat or otherwise harms your health. It all depends.











































"Any paradigm which takes into account individual metabolic differences is bound to save you from the one size fits all nonsense out there"
So true, which is why modern American health care is fatally flawed. In the three minutes that a doctor spends with a patient, there is no time at all for the doctor to listen to the patient's unique concerns and answer questions. Instead, all the doctor can do is quickly type up a half dozen of those one-size-fits-all prescriptions and rush the patient out the door.
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Yes, that can be a problem, but I don't think it is the fundamental flaw behind American health care.