Nutrients eaten rarely meet the requirements of the body.   They estimate our food supply today gives us 85% less nutrients that the same foods supplied in the early 1900’s. The soils of today are terribly depleted in trace minerals and healthy microorganisms. This is because only a few synthetic minerals have been added back to most soils, while year after year there have been crops produced. And in addition, herbicides and pesticides have killed off much of the micro-organisms that are vital to a good soil ecosystem. With a lack of good minerals and nutrients the plants need, a pH that is not in optimal range, and no normal flora, most plants are in the same position we here in America are. Just as we need good normal flora in our guts to digest our food properly, plants need good soil flora in order to assimilate and utilize the nutrients they need. They have nutritional requirements just as we do, and they also need the good flora, just like us.     

     Unfortunately, good soil organisms have received very little recognition as being important to crop production, only a few synthetic minerals are even recognized as important to plant health, and this has caused our food supply to be less nutrient rich. As an aside, it is some of these soil based organisms that the plants need that are being sold as soil based organism to people to help repopulate their digestive tracts with normal flora. It seems if we have healthy soil with good organisms in it, then somehow in eating the fruits and veggies from this type of an environment gets these healthy organisms into us, too.
     Most people in America do not eat nutrient dense food. Very few people raise any of their own food, and fewer yet can by organic or from friend, neighbors or at farmer's markets. Most people do have time to prepare meals any more. The result of this is that there are lots of refined, processed foods consumed today. These are quick and convenient. Our life styles today make it hard to eat healthy.  There are no “super-foods”, no raw animal products and very few nutrient dense, foods eaten by most Americans. You find very little really healthy food at restaurants. Processed foods that deplete our bodies of needed nutrients are consumed much more often rather than foods that build the body up and nourish it.