| Nutrients, the Building Blocks of Immunity | | | | Many people on this planet are aware that proper |
| I am going to supply you with knowledge about | | | | nutrition is essential for good health and that |
| the essential nutrients needed for optimum health | | | | inadequate nutrition is associated with poor health |
| and longevity, several of which are ignored by | | | | and disease. Yet the corporations that control the |
| mainstream nutritionists. | | | | majority of the food sold in markets are getting |
| Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary, 17th edition | | | | away with supplying very low quality products. |
| defines nutrition as, "All the processes involved in | | | | Corporations routinely package and market foods |
| the taking in and utilization of food substances by | | | | based on their shelf life and taste rather than |
| which growth, repair, and maintenance of activities | | | | their nutritional value. Seed variations are selected |
| in the body as a whole or in any of its parts are | | | | for ease of growing, harvesting, transporting, and |
| accomplished. Includes ingestion, digestion, | | | | processing rather than nutrition. Adding chemicals |
| absorption, and metabolism (assimilation)..." As you | | | | to achieve a longer shelf-life is commonplace and |
| may gather, consuming the needed nutrient does | | | | the overrefining of grains is ubiquitous. These |
| not guarantee that the nutrient will be assimilated | | | | practices contribute to inadequate nutrition which |
| by the body. | | | | leads, intern, to ill health. |