We Are As Healthy As What We Eat-The vital role Soil Biology plays in food quality.
The nutrient losses in our food during the last 50 years are astounding. A US-study shows that between 1975 and 2000 vegetables dropped on average calcium by 27%, iron by 37% and Vitamin C by 30%. Yet another study states similar losses between 2000 and 2020. Added up, those figures become even more devastating. Today we get as many nutrients out of eight oranges our grandparents got out of one.
Our bodies need the energy to run the extraordinary amount of tasks they continuously perform every day and every night.
The heart beats about 100,000 times and pumps 8000 litres of blood through our body every single day of our life. The kidneys clean 180 litres of blood per day. We breathe about 20,000 times in 24 hours to filter 9000 litres of air to oxygenate our blood – to name just a few.
On top of the ongoing every-day-tasks, our bodies are in a constant state of repair. Every ten years we produce a new skeleton, we replace our entire skin every two to three weeks, a new set of lungs every six weeks and our liver is not older than five months.
This repair work requires building blocks provided by our food. The better the quality of the building blocks, the better the repair. The better the repair, the longer our body functions at its peak and the longer we live.
High-quality building blocks also provide our energy. If the building blocks are substandard or don’t match, we operate on low energy levels. We feel drained after a meal, for example.
In a perfect world, hunting and gathering our food would provide optimum nutrients for our bodies. All compounds would be bio-available, we would get the exact amount of what we need at the time when we need it.
In reality, of course, most of our food is farmed. The closer farmers work with Nature, the better suitable our building blocks, the better our bodies can fuel and repair themselves. This is called SLOW food – Seasonal, Local, Organic and Whole.
The key to optimum building blocks is a high nutrient density of our food. The nutrient density of plants is directly proportionate to the quality of the soil in which they grow. The quality of the soil means the quality and diversity of the soil biology, depending on the quantity and quality of soil organic matter in the topsoil.
The better the topsoil, the higher the nutrient density of our food, the more energy we have and the better the repair work of our cells, the longer we live. We are only as healthy as the soil our food grows in.
Healthy and vibrant soils grow healthy and vibrant foods, making healthy and vibrant people.
Stefanie Hildmann
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