Nutrition and Physical Regeneration

If you haven't read my posts dealing with soil fertility and food quality, you should check them out now (otherwise you won't understand some of what is written below) and then come back and read this post.

Okay. All done? Good.

Below is a little ditty I plucked awhile ago from one of the yahoo groups of which I am a member. In many ways organic is seen today as the holy grail of nutrition, but in many ways, as I will detail in an upcoming post, it is greatly lacking. Organic tells you much about what is not in a given food, but it tells you little about what is in a given food in terms of nutrition.

Up until now there has been little that we can do to determine food quality other than the very generic and often misleading FDA food labels in terms of macro-nutrients and the non-explanatory organic label in terms of nutritional food quality. What the FDA measured – from what source – when they did it – what were the growing conditions, etc., are unknown to you and me and can't be known.

Now however we can know what the quality of our food is beforehand, and if we use things like an inexpensive glucometer or a relatively expensive (with a big learning curve) rbti testing kit we can also determine the impact of any given food stuff on our bodies after we have consumed it.

There is a revolution ahead in terms of quality and macro-nutrient profile which will be fueled by personal testing. No longer do we have to depend on the supposed superiority of organic or biodynamic food. No longer do we have to suppose a food is less than optimal because it is non-organic. No longer do we have to depend on the prose of some "guru" and his understanding of the available evidence.

We can test the quality of food beforehand no matter how it is labeled, and we can test whether a particular food is good for us no matter that some writer, doctor or other supposed expert is telling us otherwise. In my opinion, it will forever change the dietary landscape as we know it. I do hope you get on board.

Enjoy!

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"It's common with monoculture produce to have Brix values as low as 3%, compared with organic produce invariably at 10% or higher."
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Statements like the above make me cringe. Does anyone here want to go with me to the local Holy Organic store and take a few brix readings? My experience has been that Holy Organic produce rarely measures "10% or higher."

I love when Chi comes on this newsgroup now and then to point out that [my paraphrase] "It ain't so much anything toxic put on your food as the everyday lack of true nutrition built in that will hurt you in the long run."

Does that mean I condone pesticides? Hell, no! What I am against is food of such poor quality that it requires pesticides to save it from Nature's clean up crew long enough for it to be harvested. It's really absurd to think that our ordinary agriculture rescues lousy quality food and then expects such trash to support building of healthy human bodies.

I have repeatedly posted Dr. Andersen's findings that high-brix food grown in toxic-laden soil will have LESS pesticide than low-brix Holy Organic food grown in pristine pesticide-free soil. All living things have the power of selective absorption. Heck, life would never have started without that power. A simple illustration is when, say, we need calcium in our bodies. Our organism will work overtime to recover calcium from whatever is passing through us. If the food is calcium-rich, the job is easy and the organism goes on to other tasks. However, if there is a calcium shortage, the organism may struggle and end up using varying amounts of some other substance in calcium's place.

The above is a classic case of where toxic substances and poor-quality substituted building materials get in the door. This is why so many American children of today need braces: there wasn't enough calcium to fill out their jaw wide enough to have space for the genetically-sized teeth. I suggest you watch those same children shy away from football because their under-built bones hate impact with kids who have stronger calcium-rich skeletons.

It works about the same way with plants. Give them what they need and they will increase their brix. Cheat them of that and they will take in what they really shouldn't. Low brix is the result and increased toxicity comes right along with that.

It's simple in my mind: quit worrying whether something is Holy Organic and concentrate instead on whether it has any nutrition or not. A brixmeter is mighty handy for that.

And then again maybe I'm just an insane man raving out here in the Maryland Wilderness.

Regards,
Rex Harrill
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