Sentences with phrase «in modern food supplies»

Excesses of chemicals, sugar, processed flours, herbicides and pesticides, preservatives and sweeteners found in modern food supplies stress out the pancreas and liver, sometimes even leading to diseases like diabetes and cancer.

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These modern varieties have helped vulnerable farmers by securing their food supply, and providing them with added income and the opportunity to invest in their own future.

If a baby is going to need a certain nutrient at a certain time that isn't supplied by breast milk, it makes sense that there would be a built - in way for baby to get this nutrient that doesn't involve modern fortified foods.

In a perfect world, our food would naturally contain high levels of fulvic minerals from the soil, but this is not usually the case with our modern food supply.

The cause of heart disease is not animal fats and cholesterol but rather a number of factors inherent in modern diets, including excess consumption of vegetables oils and hydrogenated fats; excess consumption of refined carbohydrates in the form of sugar and white flour; mineral deficiencies, particularly low levels of protective magnesium and iodine; deficiencies of vitamins, particularly of vitamin C, needed for the integrity of the blood vessel walls, and of antioxidants like selenium and vitamin E, which protect us from free radicals; and, finally, the disappearance of antimicrobial fats from the food supply, namely, animal fats and tropical oils.52 These once protected us against the kinds of viruses and bacteria that have been associated with the onset of pathogenic plaque leading to heart disease.

From this perspective, grains probably never accounted for more than 1 - 3 % of our historical calorie intake... and as you know from one of my recent articles, currently our modern processed diet that the average person eats consists of 67 % of total calories from grains such as corn, soy, and wheat and their derivatives... now THAT»S a shocking revelation in why our entire food supply is backwards, and how that affects your waistline!

Points to make: soy protein isolate and other highly processed modern soy protein products are not safe and have no long history of use in the food supply; studies published since 1999 undermine the credibility of — and conclusions drawn — from key studies evaluated by the FDA when it approved the health claim in 1999; recent studies show that soy can contribute to or cause heart disease, including endothelial damage (especially in women), heart arrhythmias and cardiomyopathy, an increasingly prevalent condition that affects 1 in 500 Americans.

Increased exposure to goitrogenic mercury, bromides and fluoride compounds, and soy products ubiquitous in the food supply, coupled with declining levels of thyroid - supporting nutrients such as selenium and vitamin A in modern diets, may explain why some people need much higher levels of iodine than those found in traditional diets.

There are lots of other changes this represents too, such as the presence of chemicals in our food supply (pesticides, herbicides, xenoestrogens, etc) that didn't exist in the ancient diet, as well as the dramatic changes caused by hybridization of many of our foods, which creates versions of fruits and vegetables bred more for size, sweetness, and appearance as opposed to natural nutrition... this aspect has decreased micronutrient content in the modern day food supply (just look at wild blueberries vs cultivated blueberries as an example of that with wild berries coming in at more than DOUBLE the antioxidants from ORAC testing).

That's why Natural Society Co-Founder Anthony Gucciardi spent more than a year doing the research on how to escape health pitfalls and rediscover what «healthy» truly means in light of the modern day food supply's chemical makeover.

Modern day cats eat lots of dry food which has very low water content (about 10 %) and so they need an additional water supply in the form of a separate water bowl.

Modern cat foods may do a grand job in supplying your feline with the right vitamins and nutrients, but they do little to keep their teeth healthy.

Dog food shopping is a very personal decision; after all, aisle upon aisle in pet supply stores are stocked full of kibble, cans, and everything in between for today's modern dog parent.

That would lead to a hemispheric wide breakdown in the affected areas infrastructure, governmental control and it's ability to direct recovery and total failures in the modern electrical / communication dependent food supply and food transport and water distribution networks leaving billions without the sophisticated infrastructure that underlies all of today's city centric society ability's to exist and survive.

Just five companies (Monsanto, Dow, Bayer, DuPont, and Syngenta) own more than 60 % of the global commercial seed supply, and with many of the modern seed varieties being hybrids that won't breed true for home gardeners and small - scale farmers, or that have regulations outlawing the collection and replanting of seeds, today's growers are being locked into a cycle of reduced genetic diversity, which may lead to a potentially dangerous food security situation in the near future.

I am well - versed in supervising food production, maintaining food and supply inventories, and keeping up - to - date with modern food trends.