Problems with Modern Nutrition

‘The modern diet isn’t good for our health for many reasons. We eat too much of everything, but we also over consume foods that are high in fat, sugar and salt, we drink excessive alcohol, our fruit and vegetable intake is only half of what it should be, and we’re short of fiber and many minerals.

Despite huge gains in nutritional knowledge, healthy eating has not become any easier. For many of us it has become harder because of our busy lifestyles. Fewer and fewer people cook and eat at home, and many of us rely on takeaway and fast foods. And when we do not eat our, the meal is not always a healthy one.

Even if you pack your shopping trolley with fresh fruits and vegetables each week, nutritional question marks remain. There’s evidence from the UK and United States that produce today contains fewer minerals that it did 60 years ago.

Use of synthetic fertilizers, plant breeding, mineral-depleted soil and long delays between harvesting and the consumption of conventionally farmed foods, have all taken their toll. What it means for the consumer is that the “apple a day” our grandparents used to eat doesn’t deliver the same kind of nutritional punch today.

Medical research acknowledges that eight glyconutrient sugars are needed at the cellular level for optimum immune system function. Considering that six of these glyconutrients are often lacking in modern diets, Mannatech sought new and better sources of the nutrients. The effort culminated in the Ambrotose complex. Twenty patents – including one from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office – have been issued to Mannatech for technology related to the Ambrotose complex.