The Importance of Raising Part of Your Food
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March/April 1970
By the Mother Earth News editors
Many of the so-called "fresh" vegetables you buy in the store haven't nearly the value of these same foods out of your garden. Out at Ohio State experiments show that about 43% of the "fresh" vegetables sold in stores have lost the biggest part of their vitamin content. Oranges and grapefruit lose around 30% of their Vitamin C 30 days after picking I've heard.
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Now, if you will get yourself a productive home in the country, if you will take a real interest in the fertility of your soil, if you eat plenty of your own home-raised fresh vegetables and fruits, your own fresh eggs, fresh meat, use honey instead of sugar, drink lots of raw whole milk and eat whole grain bread, all the evidence says you and your family will be far healthier and live longer, more active lives as well!
*Half as much orange as tomato. Tb = tablespoon: c = cup.
MILK, VEGETABLES (particularly FRESH green leafy ones), MEAT, EGGS and FRUIT are called the "protective" foods because they safeguard the body from a variety of diseases.
These foods are needed at all ages - not only by children and adults, but elderly people.
If you raise them on your homestead, you can eat them generously. Most of us need more calories - potatoes, wholegrain bread and cereals, butter, sorghum. and dried beans are good suppliers of calories. Eat sparingly of sugar and other refined foods!
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