I run up to 7 miles a day. Not long distance by online runners' perspective, although not short, just enough for me.
I'm hearing that I'm missing certain nutrients, what is the importance of these nutrients? I imagine I don't eat much vitamin K, either, I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything. I don't know the exact makeup of everything that I eat, I know it comes from the ground and I feel better once I eat it.
If you feel fine, then I wouldn't worry about it. I only wanted to share some things that you may have been unaware of regarding plant foods, in case your weight has to do with lack of nutrients. As I said before, some people thrive on a mostly plant-based diet. I remember reading that you grow some of your own food, which is great.
B12 is present in the dirt on produce that is fresh from the garden. It gets washed off from the intense scrubbing that is involved in preparing produce for the grocery store. B12 is well known for it's impact on the nervous system, energy and endurance. Vitamin A is involved in hormone and immune function as well as eye health, Vitamin D is vital for immune function and mood, and iron is known mostly for the production of red blood cells, and transporting oxygen throughout the body.
Even though the Holy Scriptures were written to instruct our souls, it is interesting to see the kind of foods that Our Lord ate, and the foods He chose to miraculously multiply (loaves and fishes). We see Him consuming bread, for example. Whole grains, prepared properly, are a wonderful source of all the B vitamins.
Historians now can say with great probability, that the bread Our Lord ate was most likely einkorn bread, which is an ancient grain that people who have gluten intolerance, for instance, can tolerate very well. If it was in the form of loaves, it was most likely sourdough, which was a universal method of converting grains into bread, before commercial yeast was introduced. Real sourdough happens to have many health benefits. Our Lord and St. Paul in the Sacred Scriptures use sourdough as an analogy for demonstrating spiritual truths, perhaps suggesting how common this method of preparing bread was.
“And again he said: Whereunto shall I esteem the kingdom of God to be like? It is like to leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.” — Luke 13:20-21
"Your glorying is not good. Know you not that a little leaven corrupteth the whole lump?" — 1 Corinthians 5:6
We also see Jesus Christ consuming wild caught fish, and wild honey or honeycomb.
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