Restoring the health of our world's soil has been a subject of concern by many for some time. The reason that we need to supplement with products like Juice Plus+ is because even at the minimum consumption of fruits and vegetables each day, we are probably still not getting the nutrients we need for optimal health. Juice Plus+ can help with that goal. Here's more on an detail assessment of the health of our soil and how the foods grown on these "stressed" lands may be adding to our health problems --
This is not a new idea, but the work of French research scientist, Francis Chaboussou. He outlined plant responses and increased pest susceptibility way back in the 1980s as part of his "Theory of Trophobiosis" in his book, Healthy Crops: A New Agricultural Revolution Jose Lutzenberger, former Minister for the Environment in Brazil, calls Chaboussou's work, "the most important discovery in agricultural chemistry since Liebig," the 19th century German chemist known as the "father of the fertilizer industry."
But the agro-chemical companies don't want you to know this. They want you to think you need their fossil fuel-based, toxic and unsustainable products to grow food. Agribusiness is even lobbying at Copenhagen to receive funding for these practices.
Here is how Choboussou explained why soluble fertilizers work to increase disease and pest vulnerability. The soluble fertilizers cause plant proteins to break down into amino acids and change the carbohydrate to sugar ratios, affecting the plant's metabolism. This change makes plants more vulnerable. Pests and disease rely on malfunctioning plants for nutrients that are not available in healthier plants. When imbalance occurs, circumstances are ripe for infestation and infection. Further, chemical fertilizers inhibit the growth of life-sustaining fungi in the soils, damaging the biological health of the soil as well as that of the plant.
Chemically-treated soils produce weaker plants that are more physiologically stressed, and these plants become more susceptible to disease and insects as well. There is, perhaps, little difference for humans. Just like plants, scientist Dr. Warren Porter at the University of Wisconsin has informed us that as a human becomes stressed and is fighting disease, he or she will break down blood proteins, which creates a similar environment to what the imbalanced plant experiences with the application of fertilizers.
When plants get nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium (NPK) as manufactured soluble salts--instead of from biologically released nutrients from a healthy, biologically alive soil--the plant becomes dependent on chemical applications for nutrition, instead of the soil. Increased applications of herbicides (to kill weeds) over time only further weakens the plants, creating more opportunities for weed resistance and pest infestation. For humans, it's the same as our immune systems are weakened by eating over- processed and corn syrup/sugar-based diets.
What happened to eating whole foods that are toxin-free- and possess actual nutrition, whole proteins, complex carbohydrates? No person in their right mind would try to survive solely on vitamin supplements—why do we think our food supply can? Crops, and humans, demand a complexity of nutrients for optimum wellness that can only come from biologically derived nutrients. (read more...)
Bottom Line: We've got to focus more on whole food, plant based nutrition, than processed foods that come in bags, boxes, or jars. If we don't, the world's nutritional supply will continue to deteriorate. Even taking a supplement like Juice Plus+ helps the demand for better quality fruits and vegetables. But either way, we can't rely on foods that are almost always sprayed with chemicals. Nor can we count on healthy crops grown on soil that has not had time to replenish the nutrients as well. Top soil is being depleted and won't just last forever when there is too much overturning of it too often. Think of it this way - you can't drive on a concrete road forever without having to put down or repair it. Unfortunately, we can only do so much, where Mother Nature has to intervene. Prevention and care is our best hope. Just start thinking in terms of eating a healthy diet so we can put the demand on better care for our soil.
The Health & Wellness Institute, PC
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