Why do Today's Fruits & Vegetables Lack Yesterday's Nutrition?

The produce that is grown commercially today contains 75% less nutrition then it did in the 1950’s. (source: Health Canada)

Modern agriculture has supplied us with an unprecedented abundance of food.  The downfall is that intense processing and sterilization of foods renders many of their healthy nutrients and minerals biologically inactive.  For example, while the pasteurization of milk enables us to kill many pathogens that would make us very sick, it also denatures and even destroys many of the valuable nutrients that our body needs to survive.  The end result is that we need to replace the components that have been lost so that our body can function at optimum levels. 

Furthermore, long distance transportation and poor crop-breeding practices to enhance many features which rarely pertain to better nutrition are all believed to be contributing to the drop in vitamins and minerals. This is another good reason to support our local family-owned farms.   

Our bodies have evolved over hundreds of thousands of years based on a dietary regime that has more or less remained unchanged. In the last decade, with the advent of mass produced foods and modern food preparation technologies, we have radically changed our diets. At no time in our documented history has food been so readily available and that in quantities that are unprecedented. Paradoxically, the quality and nutritional value of these foods has greatly diminished. Many use the term, ‘empty foods’ or ‘empty calories’.

With that same ideology, cutting-edge research from leading Canadian scientists has brought us a way to recover many of these nutrients.  By taking advantage of new patented pharmaceutical-grade supplements, your body can finally regain many of the nutrients that are needed to ensure the best possible physical condition, to repair parts that are damaged and to slow down the aging process. Immunotec Research has endeavoured in identifying these nutritional voids and has produced supplements to assist in filling the ‘gap’.

There exists a handful of companies and research firms that are attempting to deal with this ever-growing problem of poor nutritional status in modern-day foods. With the increasing need for food and the coinciding expanse of cities and towns into agriculture lands, the need for optimal supplementation will keep growing.

For more information, feel free to contact me at:

nutraceutical@sympatico.ca

Eric N Leclair, BSc., A-EMCA, PCP