You Want the Life? You Have to Eat the Food.
Author: Ellis Hein

What does it take to have a body that is healthy all your life? Some people seem to sail through their lifetime with nothing ever going wrong. Is it luck?

I used to be apethetic about my health. I had tried to make myself healthier, but no matter what I tried, my state of health remained about the same. Today, I find more and more people who subscribe to my old philosophy of lethargy.

Perhaps, like me, these people have tried eating lots of foods like carrots, broccoli and leafy green vegetables. Perhaps they have heard that multi-vitamin and multi-mineral formulas are the key to sustained health. However, after months of eating such foods or after long periods of consuming the best and latest vitamin preparations, they may find they are little better off than they were.

Why? Are these foods impotent? Do vitamins and minerals make any difference in how our bodies respond to health threats?

These questions can be answered by looking at the way nature works. When I began to be aware of the design of the human organism, I recognized that there were things I could do that would have a positive impact on my health. When I realized that my body possessed the capability of avoiding metabolic mistakes, an exciting adventure suddenly opened before me. I discovered that there are certain natural laws that govern our health.

Did you know your body was made to receive the nutrients it needs from the foods you eat? But before you begin on any nutritional program or diet, ask yourself the following questions. In what soil was this food grown? Under what conditions did it grow? And what is the breeding behind the plants producing this food?

Health-giving foods have certain characteristics. You can easily digest them and you gain many more nutrients than you expend on digestion, assimilation and distribution. These foods are called "nutrient dense foods."

Our plant breeders and our agricultural practices have been robbing us of nutrient dense foods. Because easily digested and nutrient loaded food supports life — all life — such foods do not keep long on grocery shelves. Economic pressures have caused us to develop long keeping, nutrient poor varieties of our commercial food plants. Our reliance upon commercial fertilizers, which replace only three or four of the 70 or more minerals needed for optimal growing conditions, has led to mineral deficient soils that produce nutrient poor plants.

It is hard to find commercially available foods that qualify as nutrient dense. While being a step up from the conventionally grown vegetables, even "organic" foods are not necessarily grown on living, mineral rich soils.

Did you know that an analysis of the USDA Food Composition Charts shows an overall 26% decline in the average nutrient value of all our foods over the last 20 years? This decline in nutrition is a continuation of a 75-year trend.

If you are a gardener you can cultivate your food crops in a way that ensures maximum nutrient loading. Spend the time to take care of your soil by adding in living compost, beneficial plant matter and soil supplements that provide a naturally balanced, broad range of minerals. Your plants will love it and reward you handsomely.

There are certain foods that can be classified as Super Foods. These, by definition, are nutrient dense and should provide a wide range of nutrients and minerals. These super foods can help fill in the gaps that may be left by your normal diet.

So, do you want health? The first law of health is to eat the food that supports your body's efforts to maintain a high degree of wellbeing.







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Ellis Hein is an avid health enthusiast, a gardener, a writer, a woodturner and a home schooling parent. For more about Mr. Hein's pick of health giving products and super foods, visit http://www.health-helps.com. You can see a gallery of Mr. Hein's woodturning at http://www.woodturnedart.vcn.com

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