Is Malnutrition Causing Your Obesity?

November 8, 2007 | By NRP In Weight Loss |

Your body needs a certain amount of nutrition to survive and thrive. The Federal government has a PDF you can get at http://www.mypyramid.gov/which lists dietary plans ranging from 1,600 calories to 3,150 calories per day depending on your body type, gender and needs. These guidelines should tell you that starting a diet below the 1,600 calorie per day level will trigger starvation mode in your body and this means you’ll eventually gain weight.

Before we get into thinking about calories, I want to give you some background on farming and nutrition that, I hope, will make you angry enough to want to do something about it.

For hundreds of years man cleared ground then farmed it planting the same crop in the same place year after year until the ground would no longer grow that crop. The farmer would then clear another patch of ground and repeat the process. (I encourage you to read your history books or check with your county extension services to verify this bit of history.) This practice lead to mineral depletion in the soil.

Another practice that farmers had for centuries was to plow in the Fall so the ground was ready for planting in the spring. This exposed the topsoil to removal by winds and rain because there was no plant root system to prevent or slow its loss. Losing fertile soil to the rivers and streams leaves less good fertile ground for the crops.

In 1908 a commercial fertilizer was introduced to help the crops grow longer on the same ground. This fertilizer is called NPK which stands for nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. These minerals are often the only ingredients found in fertilizer. the two quotes below clearly indicate the results of poor long term land care practices and improper fertilization.

“A declining soil fertility, due to a lack of organic material, major elements, and trace minerals, is responsible for poor crops and in turn for pathological conditions in animals fed deficient foods from such soils, and that mankind is no exception.” Dr. William A. Albrecht, Chairman of the Department of Soils at the University of Missouri

“NPK formulas, as legislated and enforced by State Departments of Agriculture, mean malnutrition, attack by insects, bacteria and fungi, weed takeover, crop loss in dry weather, and general loss of mental acuity in the population, leading to degenerative metabolic disease and early death.” Dr. William A. Albrecht, Chairman of the Department of Soils at the University of Missouri

The 1992 Earth Summit statistics showed that North American farm and range land mineral content has declined by 85% in the past 100 years.

The above shows we are growing crops in soil that does not contain the proper nutrients and because of that there is a greater incidence of our farm animals and us receiving foods that aren’t as nutritious as they could be.

The result of hundreds of years of poor stewardship of the land has resulted in you eating mass produced foods that aren’t as nutritious as you need to be fully nourished. Because you aren’t receiving all of your nutrition from the food you are eating even if you are making the right choices, your body is telling you to eat more so it can get the nutrients it is craving.

I don’t know about you but I think it’s about time we start eating organically whenever possible and supplementing our diets with whole food vitamins and ionized minerals that’ll help us feed our bodies what they need to thrive. You can control obesity with proper nutrition and exercise.

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