Getting the best nutrition from your food

The food grown by my grandparents was TWICE as nutritious as today’s crops.

A landmark study proves this. In the study, researcher Donald Davis tracked the nutrient content of 43 different fruits and vegetables from 1950 to 1999.

What he found should shock every person on the planet: Food sold on modern supermarket shelves is nutritionally bankrupt.

And you would need to eat at least 10 servings of vegetables today to equal just one serving from 50 years ago!

Take a look at the USDA nutritional values for produce today compared to then:

Apples: Vitamin A is down 41%
Sweet peppers: Vitamin C is down 31%
Watercress: Iron is down 88%
Broccoli: Calcium and Vitamin A are down 50%
Cauliflower: Vitamin C is down 45%; Vitamin B1 is down 48%; and Vitamin B2 is down 47%
Collard greens: Vitamin A is down 45%; Potassium is down 60%; and Magnesium is down 85%

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Other things you can do:

 1.)Don’t overcook — or undercook — your veggies. It’s a myth that eating raw vegetables is always healthier. It depends on the food. Some produce is most nutritious uncooked, while other kinds need heat to bring out their nutrients. For example, to release the antioxidant lycopene, tomatoes need to be heated. But steaming and boiling destroys vitamins B and C in foods like collard greens and kale.

Vegetables that are best cooked include asparagus, carrots, mushrooms, spinach and tomatoes. Those best eaten raw include onions, spinach and red peppers.

2.)Add healthy fats. If you don’t add a little healthy fat to your salad or side of broccoli, your body can’t absorb all the nutrients it would otherwise.

Researchers at Iowa State University proved this point... They had students eat greens and tomatoes with low-fat dressing, fat-free dressing or olive oil. Blood samples were taken before and after each meal.

The bloodwork revealed that people who ate the fat-free or low-fat dressings didn’t absorb the beneficial carotenoids from the salad. Only when they had eaten the oil-based dressing did they get the nutrients.3

In addition to olive oil, I recommend coconut oil, walnut oil and grape seed oil.

3.)Pick locally grown organic produce from a family farm. Food that’s grown close by has more nutrients than foods that have to be transported long distances. Local produce is allowed to ripen naturally, while food that travels long distances is picked before it’s ripe.