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More food, fewer nutrients

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"A person would have had to eat three apples in 1991 to supply the same iron content as one in 1940."

--Brian Halweil, senior researcher at The Worldwatch Institute and author of "Still No Free Lunch: Nutrient levels in U.S. food supply eroded by pursuit of high yields."

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