Choose Whole Food Nutrition,
for Better Health

Whole food nutrition is unquestionably the best for your body and for your general health.

All the associated nutritional factors are present in fruits and vegetables in the correct form and precise amount needed by the body. You were designed to use this type of fuel.

• Poor quality (old). The average grocery item, including fruits and veggies, travel over a thousand miles to get to the store.
• There is a very significant loss of nutritional value the more time passes since harvesting. 50% of vitamin C is gone after each 24-hour period.
• Pesticide residue can't always be washed off, especially on thin-skinned varieties like peaches, peppers, celery, lettuce, spinach, berries and many others.
• Time-consuming to prepare. (Shop, chop and mop!). I love to eat a healthy, made-from-scratch meal but I'm also the first to admit it's a full-time job to cook that way.
• There was a time when over half the population was involved in food production. Today it's less than 7%. Corporate farming has taking over food production, and a large amount of it comes from foreign countries.

What Can You Do?

Find a Farmer's Market or Food Coop in your area and patronize it. Locally-produced organic produce is about as good as it gets.

Start a garden. Hey, it's good exercise too. Don't try to do it all in one summer. Learn as you go. It's not as easy as sticking seeds in the ground but is very rewarding, both physically and emotionally.

Use heirloom seeds in your garden. Rediscover what a really good, tart tomato tastes like. We need more people to use the heirloom seeds to prevent the loss of our seed heritage.

Buy free-range poultry and meat. Avoid feed-lot beef like the plague. Yes it's more expensive. So is diabetes, cancer, macular degeneration and the rest.

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