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changes normally
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addictive drugs
such as heroin.
Why should we use fresh food?
• Health practitioners
of every stripe agree
that fresh food is the
most nutritious.
Some nutritionists
have even
determined that the
best nutrition of all
comes from foods
that are in season in
one locale.
• The vitamins in almost any food
are gradually lost from the time
of harvest, as they may have
been harvested days or even
weeks before reaching the
kitchen table
Tomatoes are often picked green and
hard so that they can survive
mechanical harvesting and long-
distance transport, and then ripened in
rooms pumped with full of ethylene
gas, which artificially initiates the
ripening process. Tomatoes like these
are much less flavorful and nutritious
than the ripe tomato from a local farm,
plucked from the vine and eaten the
same day.
Buy items made or
grown locally rather
than from far away.
This cuts out '
food miles'. Also, try
my shoppers' quiz to
see how
ecof ri endl y you
are.
Some highly refined products such
as white flour; white sugar and
white rice have had most of their
nutritional content stripped away.