Nutrition - Food quality & Organic foods

Continuing from the last post...

There is a "Cycle of Food Quality" which helps to understand food production.

This starts with nutrients from soil that help to grow plants, the plants are then eaten by animals, animal produce is then eaten by man, man eats plant produce, man then decides how to enrich soil and the cycle starts again.

Now we move onto "Organic foods".

Relating to studies, organic produce was shown to have the same or higher nutrient content than commercial food in 85% of cases. Around 70% of organic producers in the UK are checked that they are meeting the correct requirements put down by the European law. The Soil Association also states that the main reasons people should purchase organic food are minimal use of additives, animal welfare paramount, no genetically modified foods are used, no pesticides, herbicides or fungicides are used when producing and there is no routine antibiotic use on the animals.

The following list are all medical conditions/health problems that have a main cause through food and diet.

These are as follows: metabolic syndrome, cancers (some), high cholesterol, asthma, stroke, heart disease, arthritis (some types), infertility, menstrual irregularities, eczema, diabetes, obesity and hypertension.

The next post will relating more to "nutrition" as a whole...