正确的土壤导致更好的动物，人类营养

一般可能是知道正确的土壤混合涂料sition can lead to higher yielding crops that enter the food system.

But the right soil composition can actually do more than just help producersgrow more crops，但也种植更好的农作物。

Nikki Putnam Badding, while speaking on May 23 at theAlltech One会议, explained how the right soils can actually translate to better human health.

Badding，董事总经理兼首席营养师阿西亚, has worked to help farmers across the globe to apply the lens of human nutrition to agricultural practices for the improved health of plants, animals and humans alike.

The problem of malnutrition

Badding noted that one in four people are malnourished. In some cases, it is because of a lack of food. But in other cases it is because the food they are consuming is nutrient-deficient.

“Is it enough to just feed the world. Or rather than feed the world, do we need to provide nutrition for all and change the dialogue from food security to nutrition security,” she rhetorically asked.

“农业确实有机会成为世界英雄。成为营养不良的解决方案。将营养品质放在农业实践的核心。”她补充说。

巴丁承认绿色革命及其对全球社会的积极影响，使十亿人从饥饿中丧命，在1965年至2010年之间将粮食收益率提高了44％。但是，尽管如此，巴丁说这可能还不够。绿色革命的缺点是，它鼓励全球粮食系统专注于卡路里，而不是营养。

她询问全球农业部门是否可以提供数量和质量。她还给出了一个答案，是的。

It starts with the soil

巴丁认为，解决全球营养不良问题的最佳方法之一就是通过土壤。

她指出，1938年，美国农业部表示，土壤是人类健康基本营养素的起源。她指出，对于植物健康至关重要的14种营养对于人类健康至关重要。

And deficiencies of four of those nutrients are common. Those are iodine, selenium, iron and zinc.

“There are some really interesting case studies found globally that show use of micronutrient enriched fertilizers or select regenerative farming practices we can actually bring those nutrients back to the soil, (and) back to the plants,” she said.

Nutrient density

She cited a study from the生物营养素研究所that surveyed crops and created a spectrum of crops that were grown with nutrient density in mind, and those that were grown with it not in mind. Those at the high end of the spectrum were exponentially more nutrient-dense.

虽然她主要谈到人类食用的农作物，但她说饲养场也是如此。

“我们作为人类无法利用的植物呢？”巴丁问：“我们不能消化它们，我们无法从中汲取营养。

"That’s where livestock comes in," she continues. "Livestock are natures original upcyclers. They take plantstuffs that our bodies don’t want anything to do with, and they create highly bioavailable nuitrient-dense, protein packed meat, dairy and eggs.

The advantage that not only these terrestrial animal products have, but also aquaculture, the advantage that they have is they create extremely bioavailable nutrients for our use.

巴丁说：“动物产品确实很受欢迎，尤其是从生物利用度的角度来看。”

"We can actually enrich an animal diet with micronutrients or essential fatty acids, and we can see those nutrients expressed in the meat, milk, eggs and fish that they produce.

"So, if we look at a selenium deficient part of the world, we can actually enrich the animal’s diet the dairy cow’s diet with selenium and see the selenium expressed in the milk. Now we have selenium-enriched milk, cheese, yogurt to help address those micronutrient deficiencies.”

—罗伊·格拉（Roy Graber）