Environmental changes that have lead to an increase in depletion of minerals and other inorganic compounds from our food. The 1997 edition of Food Composition Handbook shows a 25% decline in the vitamin and mineral content of foods since the last survey done in 1975. Most of the soil has deteriorated to the extent that without fertilizer nothing will grow properly. The plants are sick and, as a result, are attacked by insects and disease. Chemicals like fertilizers, herbicides, hormones and pesticides used to correct the situation. However both the animals as humans using this low quality type food can get affected by it.

 

Your body need nutrients not for the production of energy only but high quality nutrients of different origin, for body cell replacement, growth, the formation of healthy cell membranes, for proper brain and nervous function, and for the production of chemicals that regulate functions such as blood pressure, blood viscosity, constriction of blood vessels, and immune and inflammatory responses.

Ill health can be brought about by an imbalance of nutrients, producing either an excess or deficiency which in turn affects body functioning in a cumulative manner.

 

Main problem; the food processing industry is a major part of modern economy, and as such it is very influential in political decisions (e.g. nutritional recommendations, agricultural subsidising). There is the meat lobby, diary lobby, the food processors, the GM lobby. In any known profit-driven economy, health considerations are hardly a priority; effective production of cheap foods with a long shelf-life is the trend.

 

In general, whole, fresh foods have a relatively short shelf-life and are less profitable to produce and sell than are more processed foods. Because processed foods are offered cheaper, more convenient (in both purchasing, storage, and preparation), and more available, the consumption of nutritionally inferior foods has been steadily increasing throughout the world along with many nutrition-related health complications.

 

Lifestyle- and obesity-related diseases are now becoming increasingly prevalent all around the world affecting millions and millions of people. The result of a bodily response to changes in food and lifestyle. A man-made and created problem & calamity.