High quality soilsWASRe: Holy Organic

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--Hello Suze and Heidi. I have one question which I'll insert below

next to the statement I don't understand. Dennis Kemnitz

- In , " Suze Fisher "

<s.fisher22@v...> wrote:

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> > RE: Holy Organic

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I read

> >somewhere recently

> >>(I think Albrecht, but am not sure) that there was a decline in

soil

> >>fertility that corresponded with the use of corn in the native

american

> >>diet, and he attributed the decline (as evidenced by skeletons)

> >to declining

> >>soil fertility! I have no idea what would've happened had they

eaten high

> >>brix corn rather than that grown on low fertility soil, but it's

an

> >>interesting thought...

> >

> >The stuff I've read about corn and the Indians had to do with

arthritis,

> >which (IMO) probably isn't so much about nutrients as it is about

lectins

> >and allergy issues. Wheat and corn are both pretty hard on the

joints ...

> >rice doesn't seem to have so many issues (though it isn't high in

nutrients

> >either). But I'd guess he is saying that growing corn *caused* the

low

> >soil fertility?

>

> No, the other way around. I'm not arguing that corn and soy are

good as

> staples in anyone's diet, but it's worth noting that plants grown

on high

> fertility soil have a lot less anti-nutrients than those grown on

poor

> soils. I don't know if that includes lectins or not, though.

>

>

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXWhere does that info come from, do you

know, " plants grown on high quality soil have a lot less anti-

nutrients than those grown on poor soils " . Seems like that would take

bunches of research. Can't imagine it even getting funded. Please

what is the reference for this info? Dennis Kemnitz

A diet high in corn is also pretty low in protein though,

> >unless maybe there are lots of beans with it, and a corn/bean diet

would

> >still need other foods to supplement it even if they were grown in

> >good soil, I think.

>

> I think Albrecht wrote that high fertility soil produces higher

protein

> plants, FWIW. (Or it might have been Arden Andersen. Pretty sure it

was

> albrecht.)

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>

> Suze Fisher

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