Vitamins or Minerals in food... which is more important?

bpetrosky

JanPalmer500 wrote: »

64crayons wrote: »

JanPalmer500 wrote: »

Is it no wonder why many of us are overweight?

What's the connection you're making between depleted soil and being overweight?

Thanks for the question.

The body might 'crave' food in order to obtain any specific minerals that it doesn't have. If those are not in the food we eat, then maybe it complains and makes us feel hungry...

- OR -

For many people in the western world food is cheap, convenient, and abundant while the requirement of manual labor has reduced, which is a relatively unusual circumstance historically speaking.

Add to that a prevailing culture that has loosened social restrictions on eating between meals, eating out more often, and larger portions, it is not really that surprising many people are consuming more calories than they burn.

That is the far simpler explanation than mass nutrient deficiencies.

lemurcat12

bpetrosky wrote: »

JanPalmer500 wrote: »

64crayons wrote: »

JanPalmer500 wrote: »

Is it no wonder why many of us are overweight?

What's the connection you're making between depleted soil and being overweight?

Thanks for the question.

The body might 'crave' food in order to obtain any specific minerals that it doesn't have. If those are not in the food we eat, then maybe it complains and makes us feel hungry...

- OR -

For many people in the western world food is cheap, convenient, and abundant while the requirement of manual labor has reduced, which is a relatively unusual circumstance historically speaking.

Add to that a prevailing culture that has loosened social restrictions on eating between meals, eating out more often, and larger portions, it is not really that surprising many people are consuming more calories than they burn.

That is the far simpler explanation than mass nutrient deficiencies.

This makes sense to me.

snikkins

bpetrosky wrote: »

JanPalmer500 wrote: »

64crayons wrote: »

JanPalmer500 wrote: »

Is it no wonder why many of us are overweight?

What's the connection you're making between depleted soil and being overweight?

Thanks for the question.

The body might 'crave' food in order to obtain any specific minerals that it doesn't have. If those are not in the food we eat, then maybe it complains and makes us feel hungry...

- OR -

For many people in the western world food is cheap, convenient, and abundant while the requirement of manual labor has reduced, which is a relatively unusual circumstance historically speaking.

Add to that a prevailing culture that has loosened social restrictions on eating between meals, eating out more often, and larger portions, it is not really that surprising many people are consuming more calories than they burn.

That is the far simpler explanation than mass nutrient deficiencies.

Especially since nutrient deficiencies can cause extremely specific health conditions that we haven't seen an uptick in as well.

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