Article: Food, the source of Nutrition
Food, the source of Nutrition
By Kristof and Stacia Nordin, www.NeverEndingFood.org
World Nutrition 2017;8(1):87-94
Food is the source of Nutrition. When taken at face value, this wouldn’t appear to be a very controversial statement, especially when espoused within a journal dedicated to food and nutrition. However, when we take a closer look at current efforts being made in the fields of agriculture and nutrition, one often gets the impression that many food, nutrition, and agriculture experts have become convinced that food can no longer provide all of the nutrients which are essential to the optimal growth and development of the human body.
Amid reports of worldwide food insecurity, famines, malnutrition (in all forms), and the increasing challenge of trying to feed an ever-growing global population, we hear repeated calls for programs aimed at nutritional supplementation, fortification, and even the nutritional alteration of food through genetic engineering. This would seem to beg the question, ‘What happened to our food?” The answer is ‘nothing’. Highly nutritious foods, entirely capable of fulfilling human nutritional requirements, still exist. However, due to an over-reliance on monocropped and industrialized agricultural systems, nutritional diversity is increasingly being marginalized. Instead of asking ‘What happened to our food,’ a more pertinent question would be ‘What happened to our food system’?
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