Health Nutritional Supplements, the Necessity (web page 006_TN_01).

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We can observe that fruits and vegetables are frequently not as tasty as they used to be. This is easily noticeable in apples, pears, bananas, peaches, nectarines, plums and tomatoes. I'm sure that this is partly because of the soil becoming more depleted in minerals. Also, I'm sure that the use of certain preservative methods play a significant role in the loss of tastiness of the fruits and vegetables. I believe the loss of tastiness indicates that the fruits and vegetables, provided by the mainstream produce industry, are losing their nutritional quality.

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This web page responds to the question "is health nutritional supplements necessary" by providing information concerning the necessity of health nutritional supplements.

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       Necessity (DHNStN)                                                                                 Go To SoD, ToC, EoD

This web page is concern with: (1) the necessity of health nutritional supplements, the helpfulness of health nutritional supplements and/or the usefulness of health nutritional supplements; (2) the nutritional quality of food.

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       Health Nutritional Supplements (LtWStPICtNoHNS)                           Go To SoD, ToC, EoD

•     Links to The Derek B Tran Eight Grade Science Project Web Site (LiTDBTEGSPWS)                                                                                           Go To SoD, ToC, EoD

The Derek B Tran Web Site indicates the following:

(1) the nutritional quality of food (fruits and vegetables) has decreased because of overuse of commercial fertilizers and
over-processing, preserving and packaging of foods for longer shelf life.
(2) the nutritional quality of food has decreased because of toxic substances in the environment.

(3) Mineral and vitamin content of foods has declined drastically.
“In 1948 you could buy spinach that had 158 milligrams of iron per hundred grams. But by 1965 the maximum iron they could find had dropped to 27 milligrams! In 1973 it was averaging 2.2. That’s from a hundred and fifty"! “That means today you’d have to eat 75 bowls of spinach to get the same amount of iron that one bowl might have given you back in ‘48. That’s when Popeye was really big, right?” — Linda Grover, August Celebration.
(4) Why can't I just eat healthy? The USDA surveyed 21,500 people and discovered that none of the surveyed people obtained 100% of the RDA for each of ten essential nutrients (Vitamin B-6, Thiamine, Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Magnesium, Vitamin B-12, Riboflavin, Vitamin D, Vitamin E, Calcium).

(5) Are you eating empty foods? Here are just a few examples according to the RDA Handbook:
 VITAMIN B6 “50-70% is lost in processing meats, and 50-90% is lost in milling cereals.”
FOLIC ACID “As much as 50% may be destroyed during household preparation, food processing and storage."
In addition to the soils today generally being devoid of minerals and essential nutrients, there is additional nutrient loss in going from the farm to the table. Starting at the farm with 100%.
20% Loss due to Chemicals, Pesticides, Early green harvesting - 80% Left
20% Loss due to Storage, Milling, Freezing, Preservatives - 60% Left
10% Loss due to Shipping, Shelf life, Home storage, Refrigeration - 50% Left
20% Loss due to Washing, Peeling, Canning, Baking, Boiling - 30% Left
30% Left- A good, well-balanced meal?
(6) Is your vitamin supplement adequate?
“The majority of multi-vitamins are woefully inadequate.
In a recent study at Yale New Haven Hospital, researchers evaluated all common brands of vitamins bought off the
shelf at a wide range of stores. Many were made with the wrong ratios of nutrients to each other, or contained too little of the more expensive nutrients, or were missing some nutrients altogether. Of the 257 vitamin products tested, only 49 were judged to be adequate.” Source: Dr. Michael Colgan, The New Nutrition, page 100
(7) Major brands are lacking! Look at Centrum, for example, the most advertised vitamin on TV. Capitalizing on the mass of new evidence that antioxidants prevent disease, the ads say, ‘Contains the complete antioxidant group.’ True, but in what amounts?
When you read the small print on the label it says, ‘vitamin C, 60 mg.’ Yet the studies showing disease prevention effects of vitamin C almost all involve gram amounts 20-100 times the amount in Centrum. For vitamin E, the Centrum label says 30 IU. Yet the studies show that disease-prevention effects of vitamin E require over 100 IU.” Source: Dr. Michael Colgan,The New Nutrition, page 101.

Links to The Derek B Tran Eight Grade Science Project Web Site: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18

http://www.derekbtran.com/presentation/frame.htm, http://www.derekbtran.com/

•     Links to The Supplements 2000 Nutrition Real Food

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The Supplements 2000 Nutrition Real Food Web Site provides (1) historical information about the use of fertilizer, (2) information about food losing nutritional quality because of  processing. Some salient information provided on the  web site is that by the 1960s, 97% of American farms had become totally dependent on nitrate/phosphate/potassium fertilizers (NPK fertilizers) to make a living. Mixtures of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium will grow fine-looking produce. But as each succeeding crop soaked up the other minerals in the soil, and only N,P, and K were replaced, soil quality was decimated. The RDA handbook, for example, reviews studies indicating a direct correlation between the growth of NPK fertilization and declining mineral levels in our food supply. Human bodies cannot grow on NPK alone. Human bodies also require minerals such as selenium, chromium, calcium, magnesium, iron, copper, iodine, molybdenum, zinc, cobalt, boron, and vanadium. Human bodies cannot make minerals. If the minerals are not in the soil, then the minerals are not in the produce.

In addition to soil degradation, further nutrients are lost in ripening, storing, drying, cooking, freezing, blanching, pasteurization, hydrogenation, ultra filtration, and multiple other practices of modern food processing. The RDA handbook reviews hundreds of studies, showing that the already degraded crops of today, may lose even their meager supply of nutrients between harvesting and your table.

The RDA handbook states, "the tocopherol [vitamin E] content of foods varies greatly depending on processing, storage, and preparation procedures during which large losses may occur" (p.101). Vitamin C can be "considerably lower because of destruction by heat and oxygen" (p.117). Vitamin B6: 50-70% is lost in processing meats, and 50-90% is lost in milling cereals (p.144). Folic acid: "as much as 50%...may be destroyed during household preparation, food processing, and storage" (p.150).

For magnesium, the mineral essential for all cell growth and replacement, the RDA handbook states, "more than 80% is lost by removal of the germ and outer layers of cereal grains" (p.189). Next time you eat a slice of bread, remember that the germ and outer layers of grains are removed in the making of all white and so-called "enriched" flours.

These facts don't come from some scare-mongering media report. They are from the handbook of the Recommended Dietary Allowances published in November, 1989 by the US National Academy of Sciences. They are the official word on American nutrition.

There are numerous other authoritative sources indicating the degradation of our food. Dr Robert Harris, Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry at MIT, documents enormous destruction of nutrients in vegetables in modern cold storage. Every time you eat an apple and see the flesh turn brown within a few minutes, remember that is a sign that the apple has oxidized in storage, and has lost most of its vitamins. Dr Theodore Labuza, Professor of Food Technology at the University of Minnesota reports that up to 90% losses of thiamin in the drying of meats.

Professor Darryl Lund of the Department of Food Science of the University of Wisconsin, shows that blanching of vegetables and fish, can destroy one-third to one-half of their thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, pyridoxine, and vitamin C. Similar large losses of B vitamins and vitamin C occur in the pasteurization and ultra filtration of milk.  Dr Henry Schroeder, foremost American authority on nutrient content of foods, reports that freezing of meats can destroy up to 50% of the thiamin and riboflavin, and 70% of the pantothenic acid.

If you add up the nutrient losses that have accrued to our food since the late 1940s, there is not a great deal left. First came degradation of the soils by use of nitrogen/phosphorus/potassium fertilizers, that do not contain the minerals essential to human health. Then came development of modern food processing that has stripped our food of many of its vitamins.

Now we have also irradiated foods that do not rot, and may be years old and devoid of vitamins by the time you eat them. And 1992 is the first year of the bioengineered foods, the genetic alteration of which changes their nutrient content in yet unknown ways. Tomatoes that don't freeze and die in a sudden frost because they contain genes from the arctic flounder may be great for farmers, but they leave human bodies out in the cold.

The only way to obtain decent vegetables and fruits is, avoid all processed produce and buy fresh, outside the mainstream of the produce industry: (1) Buy your produce close to the ground that it came from, (2) Buy only organic vegetables and fruits, if possible, straight from the farm, (3). Buy at local farm outlets, (4) Buy only certified organic produce, preferably from health food stores and local markets. from Micheal Colgan's "Optimum Sports Nutrition", ISBN 0-9624840-5-9, Advanced Research Press, New York, 1993

Links to The Supplements 2000 Nutrition Real Food Web Site: http://www.supplements2000.com/nutrition/realfood.html

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Derek B Tran, Eight Grade Science Project Web Site (2003/March), Lenape Middle School

Dr. Henry Schroeder, foremost American authority on nutrient content of foods
Dr. Michael Colgan, The New Nutrition (http://www.colganinstitute.com/)

Dr. Robert Harris, Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry at MIT
Dr. Theodore Labuza

Linda Grover, August Celebration
Professor Darryl Lund of the Department of Food Science of the University of Wisconsin

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US National Academy of Sciences

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The conclusion is that nutritional supplements are necessary, helpful and/or useful. Optimum use of  nutritional supplements will enhance your health. To go to the marketing web page, click here.

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    1     Start of Document (SoD)

    2     Immediate Information (II)

    3     Observation (O)

    4     General Information (GI)

    5     Description: Health Nutritional Supplements, the Necessity (DHNStN)

    6     Links to Web Sites that Provide Information Concerning the Necessity of

                   Health Nutritional Supplements (LtWStPICtNoHNS)

           •     Links to The Derek B Tran Eight Grade Science Project Web Site

                 (LiTDBTEGSPWS)

           •     Links to The Supplements 2000 Nutrition Real Food Web Site

                 (LtTS2000NRFWS)

    7     The People List (TPL)

    8     The Organization List (TOL)

    9     Concluding Information and Marketing Information (CIaMI)

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