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Eat products grown and cultivated on healthy soils.

It would be easier to say “eat organic products“, it is true that certified organic nourishment is usually properly cultivated or grown on healthier soils- soils fed with organic matters. Yet, there are some farmers in America that don’t have attested organic food,  but whose products must not be overlooked. The “organic” mark is important, but it is not the only key for the production of quality food.  In fact supermarkets are full of processed organic food products that are just a little bit better, at least in terms of health, than their conventional equivalents.

Organic cream cookies aren’t a healthy food product. When an organic Coca-Cola will be launch, what will happen for sure, then it will be probably a big strike in ecological terms, but not for our health. Most of the consumers expect automatically that the mark “organic” is a synonym with “healthy“, but the fact that the corn syrup with high fructose from your soft drinks, is organic, is not at all an advantage for the metabolism of insulin.

Yet, the superiority of real food grown on healthy soils seems to be obvious. More and more studies support the hypothesis which was first launched by Sir Albert Howard and J.I. Rodale; soils that are rich in organic matters produce nutritious food. Recent some comparisons made between organic and conventional crops have shown that several plants from organic crops had much higher levels of antioxidants, flavones, vitamins and other nutrients. But of course after been carried for several days by truck, any fresh product loses its nutritional quality, therefore it would be good to search not just for organic food but also local organic food.

The best way to get rid of the Fast Food culture and its values (that the food has to be fast, cheep and easy to cook; that food is a industry product, not a natural product; that food is a fuel, not a form of communication and bounding with other people or a bounding with the nature) is to participate to the complex but fascinate processes that involves the procure of food.

I feel better in the garden than in the kitchen, but I realize that our relationship between food and eating depends on the spent time for this. The garden offers us a lot of solutions, both practical and philosophical way, so that we can eat healthy. My vegetables garden is rather modest- 3/6 m strip of land, in the front of my house- that’s why in the summer, we give up the supermarket basket, and buy only fruits from the market.

And even if we live in the city and own just a strip of land we have plenty place for some trees with fruits. The garden is the perfect solution if you cannot afford expensive organic products: the own grown fruits and vegetables are fresher than any product on the market and will not cost more than one ore a couple hours per week and a couple of seeds.

The own garden has other benefits; it’s a beautiful way to involve your body. Most of the time, what we call recreation or a workout, means physical work, without any purpose, that’s way the satisfaction will be much higher when the physical activity has a specific purpose.

Gardening means also intellectual activity. You have to know the different soils, to establish the one that fits better to the condition of your garden, to know subtle differences in terms of light, humidity and quality of the soil and the way to fight against pests without using chemicals.