As I was cutting up a tasteless store-bought tomato for our salad, I was looking out the kitchen window onto our vegetable garden that is still buried in three feet of snow. I can’t wait to start digging in the dirt again and grow some fresh veggies! These store bought tomatoes taste like grass and I am SO ready to have some nice, juicy, flavorful tomatoes, picked fresh from the garden. Yum!
Veggies fresh from the garden taste so much better and are better for you, but what is their nutritional value? My garden has been there for many, many years. All the people that lived here before us have used it and taken from the soil, but what have they put back into the soil to help it grow veggies that are high in vitamins and minerals? Plants do not make minerals. Rather, they take minerals from the soil. If they don’t get the essential minerals from the soil they can’t make vitamins efficiently, and therefore you end up with a vegetable, or fruit, that is deficient in essential nutrients (minerals/vitamins). Our food’s nutrient value has dropped drastically over the years because we are not replacing the minerals that we are taking out of the soil. The fertilizer (whether it be organic or not) only supplies enough nutrients to help the plant grow lush and big. Plants only need 9 minerals to grow happily and healthy, whereas our bodies need 60 minerals. To help our crops reach their full potential when it comes to their nutritional value, we ourselves need to supply all the minerals to make that possible.
Wood ash is very high in minerals and in years past people would always sprinkle their wood ash from the fireplace or cooker in the garden. This added loads of nutrients to the soil. Last fall I burned some branches that were blown off our trees and collected the wood ash to sprinkle on my garden. I’m hoping that this will add much needed minerals to the soil. I’m also looking forward to adding some Blooming Minerals soil conditioner and plant food, containing up to 77 organically bound earth elements. I’ve heard so many good things about this stuff. Not only does it promote healthy plant growth, but it also feeds the plants all the minerals necessary to bare a crop packed with essential nutrients the way it was designed to be.
Think spring everyone!
Showing posts with label Essential Nutrients. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Essential Nutrients. Show all posts
Why Are Essential Nutrients Called Essential Nutrients?
For two reasons:
1. Our body does not manufacture them, we must consume them.
2. If you are missing even just one essential nutrient you will get a disease, or a collection of diseases, many of which are life threatening.
Nutritional minerals are not distributed evenly throughout the earth’s crust. Just like gold and silver do, nutritional minerals appear as “veins” in the earth’s crust much like raspberry sauce in raspberry ripple ice cream. Therefore it is impossible to get ALL the essential nutrients from produce which is grown in the same field.
Plants only need nine (9) minerals to grow happily; we need sixty (60). When you see a plant that looks very healthy and nutritious you know that it has at least nine (9) minerals but we need the other fifty-one (51) as well! Therefore, just because the food you are eating looks nutritious does NOT mean that it has ALL the ESSENTIAL NUTRIENTS that we need to stay happy and healthy!
(my notes from one of Dr. Joel Wallach’s lectures)
Added on March 19th, 2008:
How to ensure that your body receives the 90 essential nutrients:
1. Our body does not manufacture them, we must consume them.
2. If you are missing even just one essential nutrient you will get a disease, or a collection of diseases, many of which are life threatening.
Nutritional minerals are not distributed evenly throughout the earth’s crust. Just like gold and silver do, nutritional minerals appear as “veins” in the earth’s crust much like raspberry sauce in raspberry ripple ice cream. Therefore it is impossible to get ALL the essential nutrients from produce which is grown in the same field.
Plants only need nine (9) minerals to grow happily; we need sixty (60). When you see a plant that looks very healthy and nutritious you know that it has at least nine (9) minerals but we need the other fifty-one (51) as well! Therefore, just because the food you are eating looks nutritious does NOT mean that it has ALL the ESSENTIAL NUTRIENTS that we need to stay happy and healthy!
(my notes from one of Dr. Joel Wallach’s lectures)
Added on March 19th, 2008:
How to ensure that your body receives the 90 essential nutrients:
- Ultimate Classic or Tangy Tangerine (depending on what your taste buds prefer)
- EFA’s (Essential Fatty Acids)
The Classic and Tangy are a highly bio-available liquid packed full of vitamins, plant derived colloidal minerals, and amino acids. It’s safe, even for children.
Conquering that Sweet Tooth
The munchies have been a big problem for my husband. He especially loves chocolate. There has been a few times where he has resorted to munching on my semi-sweet chocolate baking chips when he stays up late working and can’t find any other sugary snack to satisfy his midnight cravings.
Some kids eat dirt, pregnant women crave all sorts of amusing things, my husband devours my baking chips, and cows or horses chew on fences or barn doors. They all have the munchies, but in animals it’s called Pica. Before the cows eat their way through the barn door, the farmer supplements their diet with minerals and voila!...Problem solved. Pica is actually a mineral deficiency. If farmers can curb a cow’s craving by simply giving it supplements then surely I can curb my husband’s cravings with supplements too. And while I’m at it, my own cravings for salty things are in need of consideration also.
We both started taking the 90 essential nutrients. It’s very simple really. One bottle of Ultimate Classic or Tangy Tangerine (depending on what your taste buds prefer), and some EFA’s (essential fatty acids) is all you need to complete the “mighty 90”. The Classic and Tangy are a highly bio-available liquid packed full of vitamins, plant derived colloidal minerals, and amino acids. It’s safe, even for children, and my husband stopped munching on the barn door...errr...I mean my baking chips.
Some kids eat dirt, pregnant women crave all sorts of amusing things, my husband devours my baking chips, and cows or horses chew on fences or barn doors. They all have the munchies, but in animals it’s called Pica. Before the cows eat their way through the barn door, the farmer supplements their diet with minerals and voila!...Problem solved. Pica is actually a mineral deficiency. If farmers can curb a cow’s craving by simply giving it supplements then surely I can curb my husband’s cravings with supplements too. And while I’m at it, my own cravings for salty things are in need of consideration also.
We both started taking the 90 essential nutrients. It’s very simple really. One bottle of Ultimate Classic or Tangy Tangerine (depending on what your taste buds prefer), and some EFA’s (essential fatty acids) is all you need to complete the “mighty 90”. The Classic and Tangy are a highly bio-available liquid packed full of vitamins, plant derived colloidal minerals, and amino acids. It’s safe, even for children, and my husband stopped munching on the barn door...errr...I mean my baking chips.
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