Diethack had a great article out yesterday.

http://www.diethack.com/2007/10/do-you-need-supplements.html

Got me thinking.  I had the immense pleasure of studying with a Raw Foodist/Detoxification master (check her out) in Thailand and she was always professing the fact that we can live only off the earth.  There’s been a lot of controversy over this fact because we’re continuously polluting our environment and contributing to the extinction of many different species.  In addition, we may think that we (as a nation) are starting to consider our health more often (not necessarily always true), but there are still millions upon millions of herbicides, pesticides, hormones and antibiotics making it into our food (or the meat or the soil), which is messing up the nutrients that food can provide, the majority of our ‘conventional’ produce is merely a shadow of what it once was.  Lastly, our technology is also killing us, is it really possible that a seedless watermelon has the same overall affect on our bodies as its seeded counterparts? Think about what exactly that means, we’re taking out the seed of the watermelon, or it’s ability to reproduce. Can you imagine if we screwed with our genetics in the same way? Aren’t those some pretty vital organs/abilities?

All in all, I’m not sure we can get every nutritional need from the earth, but even if we could, how many of us would? The body is a phenomenal machine, we literally never miss a beat- as long as we’re trying our best to eat organic/local as often as possible, eat our fruits and veggies and minimize our intake of meat, milk, dairy, chemicalized, artificial junk food, can we live our life to the fullest? Not sure, but I’m trying!