Looks Great, Less Filling

Couldn't agree more Lithuania. Photos (minus) Journalism

fruit should not be the only food to use to reduce weight.balance everything diet exercises.

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2009/09/looks-great-less-nutritious

But the King of fruits is Durian. any1 tried it. Im from Singapore and many southeast Asians love the fruit. it is an acquired taste.

Fruits are as well sweet and delicious to eat are useful to health. I myself like fruit too much and.........

Can't tell if this broccoli was grown organically or not. So hard to compare. Factory food? What? Depeletion of soil quality is a major problem, especially using oil-based phosphate fertilizer. The soil just becomes the repository for the phosphates, and has no quality outside of that.

MJ should follow up with some detail. Copy editor wanted. Or maybe just an editor.

In spinach, for example, our bodies can only absorb a small amount of the iron present - the rest of it is bound by oxalates and is not bioavailable. So while I agree that conventional mass-farming practices have degraded the quality of many of our fruits and veggies, the numbers involved here are not necessarily as dire as they may seem.

Although we have all apparently become addicted to 'eye candy', this information would have been more effectively presented as a table [i.e., spreadsheet], and well, yes, some 'journalistic information' would have made it much more interesting and relevant. After why do i have to click through pictures of a tomatos and spinach just to see a few numbers that would have been more useful presented in a simple table. Yikes. Perhaps Mother is getting, well, senile.

Interesting analysis.

One thing puzzles me though. How can carrots have 126% less Vitamin A than they used to? If they have none now that would be 100% less right?

Do carrots end up with a negative amount of Vitamin A now?

It is a very true and very sad article. Due to escalating marketing demands, wrong storage and other reasons, the fruit and veggies in our markets are becoming almost more harmful than useful. Don't you remember, how sweet, refreshing and juicy the fruit were just 15-20 years ago, when we were children? This is really sad...

Could this be a contributor the obesity in America and Europe?

How about some links to actual research? The links embedded in the article are completely useless. What a waste of my time.

Proposed solution: review your journalism standards.

The Bile already has tips on how to grow good crops, follow it and enjoy.

Despite modifications supposedly made to this article, and a link in the comments to an irrelevant article on E.coli, I don't see any of the "USDA data" to back up these claims. References to that data are not in the previous article either, and all the explanations given for this supposed phenomenon say what "might" be the reason behind it. The author is supposedly a science journalist, but I see neither science or journalism here. Everything claimed in the article may be true, but you do yourself a disservice by making it seem like you're hiding something.

Yep,

It is not publicized, but the life expectancy for Americans is going down. Our food supply is f,,,,,

I try to get some nutrition in the winter from supplements. In my blender I put:

4 oz of milk
A banana or strawberries or both
1 Tbl of Nutritional yeast
a med scoop of natural vanilla whey
A smaller scoop of egg and milk protein powder with vitamins
Twin Lab capsules popped opened of various minerals and vits, such as maganese, selenium, pantothenic acid, copper, iron, Vit D in the winter, sometimes folic acid or Vit A, (but usually get lots of that in food.)
Solgar bone meal with B-12
Vanilla extract
3/4 tbl of sugar
Probiotics

In the summer I grow much of my food myself.

I think we have a real food crisis brewing for the world. Not enough young farmers replacing the old, we will run low of fertilizer as the NG dries up and that food which is grown is devoid of nutrition and not healthy. And to make matter worse, fewer people can even afford to buy produce.

If that was not enough, rainwater runoff from all the concrete jungles we have built is fouling our waters. When you combine this with all the hormones, antibiotics (from people pissing them out) and PCB's that make their way into our water supply it is mutating the frogs to have 5 or 6 legs and become hermaphrodites as well as some fish to exhibit hermaphrodite tendencies.

With the recent food shortages in the news I have to wonder as Richard Heinberg brought up "Who will be growing our food 20 years from now?"

"The average American farmer is 55 to 60 years old. The proportion of full time farmers younger than 35 years of age has dropped from 15.9% in 1982 to 5.8% in 2002. Who will be growing our food 20 years from now?" from "Peak Everything" by Richard Heinberg

"Amish farmers can't compete in conventual agriculture farming. 40 years ago 90% to 95% of the Amish were farmers. Today less than 10% are farmers." Ffrom: "How the Amish Survive" DVD

And even if the farmers keep up with production, many people cannot afford the high prices of produce. At Krogers a butternut squash was $7, a large apple was $1.85, a rutabaga was $3, an artichoke near $5 and a lemon was $1.35, a bag of cherries was $14.75, ONE organic yam was $8.25.

And these high priced produce are being offered when times are still relatively good What will this stuff sell for when gas is $10 or $15 a gallon? As people buy less produce due to affordability issues and the produce stops selling and rots on the shelves, the farmers will grow less produce that just rots unsold and less potential farmers will be entering that field.

We have been worshiping the wrong God all these years. We should have been making farmers our God. We should have been worshiping the farmer and doing everything we could to make their life a better one and kiss their asses for producing healthy and nutritious food for us.

Our food supply has degenerated unbelievably in recent years and getting worse every day that goes by. A societies well-being is based on healthy food that the farmer produces.

Just as cows go mad with poisonous, unnatural diet - so will society.

People will be headed off the deep end more and more as global warming starts to cook us, the oil and natural gas dries up and our excessive desires cannot be fulfilled any longer.

If the poison food does not drive us crazy, the salty and unnatural combinations and nutritionally bankrupt content will do the job as we get cooked from the inside with EMF and radio wave radiation for every direction.

The food being fed to us is factory made, genetically engineered, poison. But besides the greed for money, the drive for GMO food is that of necessity. We are overpopulated and our land is devoid of nutrition so they monkey with the food to try and keep pace with the insatiable demands of feeding the US.

In addition, there are not enough farmers in the US to feed us any other way than the way they do now. If the US went to organic farming with the same amount of farmers we have now - we would starve to death.

"In 1935, the number of farms in the United States peaked at 6.8 million as the population edged over 127 million citizens. There are over 285,000,000 people living in the United States. Of that population, less than 1% claim farming as an occupation."

http://www.epa.gov/oecaagct/ag101/demographics.html

If we look at the trends of farming in the US it goes in just one direction ... DOWN.

Much of the citrus groves in Fla and CA are disappearing due to skyrocketing real estate values. You know farming is tough work and many times nature deals you a blow with disease, pests and inclement weather that destroys crops.

So why would a farmer want to put up with all that when they could get $5,000,0000 or $10,000,000 for prime real estate?

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2007/Oct/19/bz/hawaii710190345...

http://www.californiagreensolutions.com/cgi-bin/gt/tpl.h,content=1039

It is really a tough life 'just finding' some decent food to eat nowadays unless you happen to live in a town with a good natural grocer and have lots of money. But money is still no guarantee. I bought some 'organic peaches' last summer at Krogers for $3 a pound...they rotted before the ripened ....went straight in the trash.

When I was a kid growing up in L.A. we could pick apricots from a tree in the alley and they had fabulous flavor even when somewhat green. What do you get now with apricots...tasteless rubber for $3 a pound.

The peaches have lost their fuzz since they are picked green, buffed and waxed with poisons and anti fungals. You can't wash it off either.

Soak a buffed peach in water and you will get a rainbow oil slick on the surface of the water composed of poison...no matter how many times you rinse it. Each summer I make it my mission to try and find a few edible peaches with the fuzz still on them...I usually fail unless I drive great distances and luck into a 'real' farmers market. (I've noticed some roadside farmers stands just buy their produce in normal channels to resell)

We will run out of natural gas, just as we deplete our crude supplies in the not so distant future. Our population boom was fueled by synthetic fertilizers made from natural; gas. Once the natural gas dries up so does the fertilizer and a shortage of fertilizer equals a shortage of food...aka STARVATION!

http://www.amazon.com/High-Noon-Natural-Gas-Energy/dp/1931498539

In this talk show they say Monsanto and DuPont are patenting heritage seeds. (I think they mean heirloom seeds.) If these corps eventually patent all the heirloom seeds it will make seed saving illegal for everyone...all backed by the full faith and credit of our gov!

See:

http://www.metrofarm.com/mf_Food_Chain_Radio.php

Show #659: THE SEED GIANTS