A switch Complexity to Simplicity:

Seriously?  Hasn’t our food become MORE complex in the past ½ century?  It begins with our soil, which in many cases has been over used and improperly cared for.  Degradation of our soil means a loss of nutrients which transfers into the plants it produces.  A conventionally grown apple today contains 1/3 the iron as the same apple in 1940.  So you eat the apple and your body is like, “What the hell?  Where’s the iron?” so you eat another one, and another one…or more likely, grab a candy bar because the apple. “just didn’t do the trick”. In order to meet our nutritional needs, we’re having to eat more calories.  Excessive calories leads to excessive weight which makes way for disease.
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