‘Review of Scientific Research on the Importance
of Growing Food Organically, and the Full
Development of Nutrients by Allowing the Ripening Process
of the Fruit to Take Place in the Tree Itself’

by Professor Tony Nader, MD, PhD.
Dr Nader was awarded his weight in gold for his historic discovery
of consciousness as the basis of all physiological structures and functions.

The past hundred years have witnessed many changes in important aspects of food science and technolo-
gy.The understanding of nutrition has also undergone various stages of evolution.

Whereas food used to be considered as just a supply of calories and building blocks of the body, research
has shown the importance of vitamins, minerals, trace elements and the variety of metabolites of food
ingredients for health, prevention of disease, proper development of the brain, and behaviour.The value
of food has therefore evolved from being a means for basic survival to a vital element in the fields of
health, education, economy and even national and international peace and well-being.

The latest scientific research has demonstrated that the methods of food production have a profound
effect on the constituents and quality of food. Conventional agricultural approaches using pesticides and
fertilizers have been shown to deprive food from some of its essential ingredients including minerals,
trace elements, carbon chains of metabolites, etc. These conventional approaches also create imbalance in
the food with too much of certain chemicals and too less of others. Such deficiencies and imbalances
have been shown not to exist in organically grown food.

About Nutrients

As an example, the following two-page table shows the harmful effects of the lack of some trace ele-
ments in the diet:

Element

Deficiency

Fe (Iron)

Anaemia, weakness, poor development

Zn (Zinc)

Growth retardation, alopecia, dermatitis, diarrhoea, immunologic dysfunction,

failure to thrive, psychological disturbances, gonadal atrophy, impaired spermato-

genesis,congenital malformations.

Cu (Copper)

Anaemia, growth retardation, defective keratinisation and pigmentation of hair,

hypothermia, degenerative changes in aortic elastin, mental deterioration, scurvy-

like changes in the skeleton

Mn(Manganese)

Bleeding disorder (increased prothrombin time)

Co (Cobalt)

Anaemia (B12 deficiency), neuronal and mental disturbances, loss of memory

Mo(molybdenum)

Oesophageal cancer

Cr (chromium)

Impairment of glucose tolerance

Se (Selenium)

Cardiomyopathy, congestive heart failure, striated muscle degeneration

Si (silicon)

Impaired early bone development

F (fluoride)

Impaired bone and dental structure

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