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Did you know that the more minerals a fruit or vegetable has, the better it will taste?
Because of our several food sensitivities, as we’ve traveled to many places in the world, we’ve tried to eat primarily fruits and vegetables. Finding quality produce has been a BIG challenge. Japan has been the only place we’ve found really good quality produce on a regular basis, but we had to pay dearly for it.
We’ve recently come across some information that ties a lot of ideas together for us. We’ve long wanted a farm where we could grow enough for ourselves and for others. Now we really want to find a place where we can grow our own food.
Our recent discoveries started while talking to a farmer and eating one of the most delicious peaches I’ve ever had. He said the soil is DG soil. I asked him what DG soil is. He said decomposed granite.
The next day, I decided to find out what kind of results farmers were having with decomposed granite. Aware that the people at Remineralize the Earth have experience with ground up rocks, went there and discovered the Real Food Campaign
I have to eat five apples today to get the same nutrition I did from one apple when I was five? Actually, I’m not surprised. I’ve heard from many sources about the mineral levels in our foods and soils going down. The above article also mentioned the term “high brix”. I knew a little about brix refractometers, and had looked through one once, but the next link really got me interested.
Can poor quality grapes lead to indigestion?
I could go on, but I think this is enough for now. We’re dreaming of finding a farm in northern California where we can grow such diverse foods as citrus and blueberries. We’ve found one such area so far where it actually can be done. Imagine cherries and raspberries along with oranges, persimmons, and pomegranate?
I continued to be fascinated by the Seven Countries Study. Conducted in the late 1950’s, researchers studied the relationship between diet and cardiovascular diseases. They studied seven groups of people in several countries, United States, Japan, Italy, Greece, the Netherlands, Finland and Yugoslavia.
I’ve written about this study in a previous article. The people on Crete came out on top by far. Heart attacks and strokes were almost unknown, even though they ate the same amount of fat as the country that had the highest rates of cardiovascular disease. In the worst country, the fat came from animal sources. In Crete, it came vegetable sources, specifically olive oil.
One aspect of this study that stands out in my mind is the amount of fruit they ate in Crete. the average Cretan consumes four times more fruit than the average southern European and six times more than the northern European. Much of the fruit they ate on Crete was citrus.
Liver health is key to almost every system to the body. Citrus and olive oil have been used for centuries to clean and rejuvenate the liver. The body gets rid of cholesterol through bile which is made in the liver. If the liver or gall bladder is clogged, the body has a hard time getting rid of cholesterol.
I’ll write more about this soon. In the mean time, what are your thoughts on this?
