“What We Eat in America” - Survey Shows Major Deficiencies
CategoriesAn often repeated mantra of health officials and medical "authorities" is that "one can obtain all the nutrients one needs from a normal varied diet". The reality is starkly different. According to a recently completed survey by the Agricultural Research Service's Food Surveys Research Group in Beltsville, Maryland, 93 % of Americans don't get enough vitamin E from their diet, and more than half (56 %) are deficient in magnesium, while roughly one third (31 %) are not getting even the bare minimum of vitamin C.
No wonder heart disease kills so many, one might add. All those deficient nutrients are essential for good heart function.
See the article on Life Estension Foundation's site here.
The whole report can be downloaded from the USDA's Agricultural Research Service site.
posted by Sepp Hasslberger on Sunday October 2 2005
updated on Monday October 3 2005URL of this article:
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2005/10/02/what_we_eat_in_america_survey_shows_major_deficiencies.htm
