What We Eat in America - Survey Shows Major Deficiencies

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Health Supreme Update: What We Eat in America - Survey Shows

Major Deficiencies

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Health Supreme Update: “What We Eat in America†- Survey Shows

Major Deficiencies

 

2005.10.03 09:17:59

 

 

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" What We Eat in America " - Survey Shows Major Deficiencies

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An often repeated mantra of health officials and medical

" authorities " is that " one can obtain all the nutrients one needs from

a normal varied diet " . The reality is starkly different. According to

a recently completed survey by the Agricultural Research Service's

Food Surveys Research Group in Beltsville, Maryland, 93 % of Americans

don't get enough vitamin E from their diet, and more than half (56 %)

are deficient in magnesium, while roughly one third (31 %) are not

getting even the bare minimum of vitamin C.

 

No wonder heart disease kills so many, one might add. All those

deficient nutrients are essential for good heart function.

 

 

 

 

See the article on Life Estension Foundation's site here.

http://www.lef.org/newsletter/2005/2005_10_01.htm?source=eNewsLetter2005Wk40-2 & k\

ey=archive

 

 

 

 

The whole report can be downloaded from the Center for Disease

Control's site.

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/major/nhanes/nhanes01-02.htm

 

 

 

 

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