William J. Sears C.W.F.N. (certified in whole food nutrition) This is what I Practice: explained by Dr. Joseph Olejack , Delmar Wellness Center , My Mentor Therapeutic nutrition is defined as “feeding concentrated organic whole food nutrition to improve organ function and correct nutritional deficiencies.” It may sound odd that nutritional deficiencies exist in modern America, but when you consider just two factors (so-called modern farming methods and processed foods) deficiencies abound. These often show up as sub-clinical syndromes that do not fall neatly into a narrowly defined diagnostic category. Chronic fatigue is a good example where thyroid function is normal on blood work and lab tests turn up nothing wrong but the person complains of no energy. ‘Modern Farming’ is the greatest misnomer of our times. The U.S. Dept. of Agriculture released a study not long ago that showed between 1966 and 1996 there was a net loss of nutrient content in food harvests of 25%. In translation, what this means is that even if you follow the food guidelines of 9 servings of vegetables and 4 of fruits a day you’re only getting 75% of the nutrition your grandparents ate. Now comes Dow & Monsanto. Today’s food is riddled with pesticides, herbicides and toxins that are being sprayed in the thousands of tons per year on American farmland. And that’s just what is allowed by law. What’s not allowed by law (DDT and others chemicals banned by the EPA in 1972) are still manufactured and shipped to third world countries like Mexico, Peru, China, and Chile. These chemicals are used to grow food abroad which is shipped back to your local supermarket to complete what has come to be known as “the circle of poison.” Processed foods have become what people just consider normal food now. Many families and individuals rely on prepackaged goods because there is simply not enough time to prepare meals. And this is just the tip of the processed food iceberg; we have not even mentioned fast food drive-thru. Processing food does three major NO-NO’s to food: uses heat, removes nutrients, and adds preservatives. Tissues and organs that have been damaged by the Standard American Diet (SAD) require concentrated organic whole food nutrition to provide basic nutrients back to what amounts to a starving body. ‘Starving body’ does not refer to the emaciated people we see on the TV during times of famine. Quite the opposite; starving Americans are well fed on the macro-nutrients (carbohydrates, fats, and proteins), but sorely lacking the micronutrients (minerals, vitamins, enzymes, cofactors, and unknown synergists only found in live food). In fact, the epidemic of obesity in America is due largely to the fact that Americans are overfed and under-nourished on too many processed foods. The Remedy Organic whole food nutrition is the remedy in therapeutic nutrition because it is the only source of nutrients that the body can use to repair and regenerate damaged tissue. Our current biochemistry was put together over 100,000 years ago as part of co-evolution with the plant kingdom. Many “wanna-be Dr. Weil” integrative medicine docs seem to forget this fact when they recommend synthetic nutrition. Maybe they never knew it. What’s missing in synthetic nutrition is the farm. Most people do not understand that the starting materials for synthetic nutrition is coal tar. Yes, you read it right! Compounds put together in an organic laboratory can’t come close to the ones made naturally. Let’s just consider one: Vitamin C. Surely, you’ve read the label on a bottle of Vitamin C and found the familiar words ‘ascorbic acid’ standing in for Vitamin C. It’s so common, so accepted that you’d be surprised to discover that it is a cheap impostor for the real thing. Albert Szent-Gorgy, Nobel Prize 1930 for Vitamin C, called ascorbic acid a fraud. He found his experiments could not be successfully completed with ascorbic acid. So what is the true Vitamin C Complex? It contains ascorbic acid, but it also has a copper-based enzyme called tyrosinase and two other proteins Gyorgy called J factor and P factor. Yes, they may bear some biochemical similarity, but thats where superficial comparisons end. What the farm contains that the laboratory lacks is the sun, the soil, and the beneficial microbes that reside there. Without these three essential ingredients the plant cannot extract minerals from the soil and make them available to the animal kingdom. If we go back to the Vitamin C Complex symbiotic microbes living on the roots of the plant fix the element copper and make it available to the plant. If whole food complexes represent the “real thing” in food; why would you accept anything less? Its like buying a Gucci bag and then finding out that it was a Chinese knock-off you paid full price for. That would make you indignant, but yet you don’t demand a higher standard for the products you put inside your body? Something to consider!
Posted on: Fri, 05 Jul 2013 03:10:58 +0000
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