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| Eating Your Veggies: Not As Good For You? I thought this paragraph particularly interesting: Less studied, though, is the "genetic dillution effect," in which selective breeding to increase crop yield has led to declines in protein, amino acids, and as many as six minerals in one study of commercial broccoli grown in 1996 and '97 in South Carolina. Because nearly 90% of dry matter is carbohydrates, "when breeders select for high yield, they are, in effect, selecting mostly for high carbohydrate with no assurance that dozens of other nutrients and thousands of phytochemicals will all increase in proportion to yield." So, we do our best to eat well, but perhaps our food just isn't as good as it could be. Makes a home garden sound pretty good, doesn't it?
__________________ Nita ![]() QueenMama ![]() Jam yesterday, jam tomorrow, but never jam today! |
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| This is exactly why I grow mostly heirloom seeds and save my seeds for future gardens. I also trade with people on my homesteading boards for other heirloom seeds. Another thing (and Dr. Atkins mentions this in his book, but I was already well aware of it) is that the land the mass produced gardens are grown on are depleted of the minerals. So when you buy produce in the store it does not have much in it. If you grow your own you can put it back into your soil or grow on virgin land that is not depleted (which is what I did). Remember a watermelon without seeds is not natural. katlupe |
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| And tomatoes that don't smell like tomatoes certainly aren't going to taste like tomatoes, either. I hate trying to find good tomatoes in the store. I eagerly look forward to our first tomatoes each summer. There just isn't anything quite like eating a tomato fresh-picked, still hot from the sun!
__________________ Nita ![]() QueenMama ![]() Jam yesterday, jam tomorrow, but never jam today! |
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| Thanks Nita! I've known this for years. no one believes me when i tell them this. I'll have to point them to your link.
__________________ Rob 310/217.5/180 Me, a skeptic? I trust you have proof ] |
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