Can we obtain enough vitamin A and D from food to be healthy? We need vitamin A for protein assimilation. What happens when you eat protein powder or lean meat or egg whites without the yolks, or skim milk? There’s no fat, there’s no vitamin A, so your body goes to the liver to get the vitamin A stored there and pretty soon you run out of vitamin A. A high-protein, low-fat diet is the quickest way to become depleted of vitamin A, and that’s when you start to see auto-immune diseases and chronic fatigue, the kind of problems that the medical professionals just do not know what to do about. Remember that the traditional cultures never ate lean meat. It is not hard to get adequate protein in the western diet. You do need some good-quality animal protein, but that’s the easy part, especially in America where we are not lacking for protein. What we are lacking are the fat-soluble activators. What the research on vitamin D tells us is that unless you are a fisherman, lifeguard, or otherwise outdoors in the tropics and exposed regularly to overhead sunlight, you are unlikely to obtain adequate amounts of vitamin D from the sun. Historically, the balance of ones daily need was provided by food. Modern diets usually do not provide adequate amounts of vitamin D, however, partly because of the trend to low-fat foods and partly because of the industrialization of agriculture, which puts our animals inside. Thus there will be little vitamin D in traditional sources such as egg yolks, butter, lard and fatty fish such as kippers and herring. These are the sources of vitamins A and D: butter and cream, fish, shellfish, liver, organ meats, insects, fish eggs, fish liver oils (such as cod liver oil), the fat of birds, such as ducks and geese and the fat of mono-gastric animals - meaning one stomach, such as the bear, pig or guinea pig. What do you notice about this list? These foods are all animal foods, and all the high-fat, high-cholesterol foods that we’re commonly told not to eat. From our educational materials: nourishingourchildren.org/Education.html Posted by Raine
Posted on: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 02:00:00 +0000
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