Lets look at Death.
The former Surgeon General of the United States, C Everett Coop said of the 2.1 million deaths each year, 1.6 million (or 75%) were related to inadequate nutrition. That is huge - and that is not because we are not getting food, for Americans about 55% of us are considered obese and 75% are higher than their optimal weight. We are getting plenty of food but we are getting food that is without nutrients most of the time. And a lot of the supplements we are taking are not making it to the cellular level.

75 percent of deaths each year are related to inadequate nutrition.

The number one killer among us is Heart attacks. That is going to get the majority of us here. Heart attacks get about 1 out of 2 of us now and that is very linked to a nutritional cause. The New England Journal of Medicine found that the plasma homocysteine level was the strongest modifiable predictor of overall death rates due to cardiovascular causes. The homocysteine level can be lowered with proper nutrition, so that means something we can easily change with nutrition was more important in fighting heart disease than cholesterol is, more important than smoking, it was this homocysteine level.

Lets look at Disease.
In the United States, we spend more money on health care products than all the other countries combined. Yet we have the highest incidence of the deadly diseases, the chronic degenerative diseases. And what we are finding is that all of those are linked to a common cause and one of those is free radicals (unstable molecules or oxidation hits) free radicals are linked to all the 7 deadly diseases.

They did a study of 800 public schools and they simply made the kids lunches more nutritious - 1 meal out of their day. They saw the number of learning disabilities drop 59%. That just illustrates how deficient we are, and usually it is women and children that are the most deficient.

Lets look at discomfort.
Excluding sports injuries and accidents, almost all discomfort is a result of inadequate nutrition. Did you know that when we work out, while it has many benefits for us, our body produces more free radicals (those unstable molecules) so it is very, very important that athletes take extra antioxidants. Ever wonder why athletes as they get older their joints hurt - it is not just their injuries, it is also because they haven't been protected from these free radicals.

So do you understand what this means? This means that death, disease, and discomfort are all linked to inadequate nutrition.    NEXT