Also, most of the agricultural soils in the world are horribly
depleted of trace minerals. This means that both vegetables and meats
may contain far less nutrition than they did 100 years ago, when most
of the data that is referenced for the nutrient content of various
foods was gathered.

For examples of the difference between assumed nutritional value of
food and current nutritional value of foods, see Paul Bergner's "The
Healing Power of Minerals, Special Nutrients, and Trace Elements,"
which contains early and recent USDA nutrient charts which make it
pretty clear: food isn't as nutritious as it once was. (And with this
we are speaking of 100 years ago, after a couple hundred years of
extractive farming on American soils)

We take supplements to bring out actual nutrient intake up to our
assumed nutrient intake.

Other than that, I agree with you: nutrition should come from food and
food only.

One way to work with nutrients and food this way is to work with
farmers who are doing special soil testing and soil amendment work to
produce nutrient dense foods, foods of the highest natural nutritional
value. There's a whole movement of farmers doing this now, vegetable,
fruit and meat producers.

-Allan in WV

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 9:40 AM, william <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On 01/10/2012 08:59 AM, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>>
>> I am curious why all the banter about supplements?  Just eat a good
>> paleo meal and all is taken care of.
>>
>> (Scratching my head)
>>
>
> If we are after "food", meaning that which supports life and health,
> paleofood does not work in the poisoned neolithic, for the reason that the
> paleo-designed immune system needs more iodine than is or was in our food.
> Without supplements, the immune system defense is crippled, the result is
> many diseases including cancer and heart disease.
>
> Kind of like creating gun-free zones in schools, then when defenseless
> people are murdered, calling for more gun-free zones.
>
> Believers in evolution please note that our iodine receptors do not
> discriminate between bromine, fluorine and iodine.
>
> William