"Our physical well-being is more directly dependent upon the
minerals we take into our systems than upon calories or vitamins, or upon
the precise proportions of starch, protein or carbohydrates we
consume."
"Do you know that most of
us today are suffering from certain dangerous diet deficiencies which cannot
be remedied until depleted soils from which our food comes are brought into
proper mineral balance?"
"The alarming fact is that
foods (fruits, vegetables and grains) now being raised on millions of acres of
land that no longer contain enough of certain minerals are starving us - no
matter how much of them we eat. No man of today can eat enough fruits and
vegetables to supply his system with the minerals he requires for perfect
health because his stomach isn't big enough to hold them."
"The truth is that our
foods vary enormously in value, and some of them aren't worth eating as food.
Our physical well-being is more directly dependent upon the minerals we take
into our systems than upon calories or vitamins or upon the precise
proportions of starch, protein or carbohydrates we consume."
"This talk about minerals
is novel and quite startling. In fact, a realization of the importance of
minerals in food is so new that the textbooks on nutritional dietetics contain
very little about it. Nevertheless, it is something that concerns all of us,
and the further we delve into it the more startling it becomes."
"You'd think, wouldn't
you, that a carrot is a carrot - that one is about as good as another as far
as nourishment is concerned? But it isn't; one carrot may look and taste like
another and yet be lacking in the particular mineral element which our system
requires and which carrots are supposed to contain."
"Laboratory tests prove
that the fruits, the vegetables, the grains, the eggs, and even the milk and
the meats of today are not what they were a few generations ago (which
doubtless explains why our forefathers thrived on a selection of foods that
would starve us!)"
"No man today can eat
enough fruits and vegetables to supply his stomach with the mineral salts he
requires for perfect health, because his stomach isn't big enough to hold
them! And we are turning into big stomachs."
"No longer does a balanced
and fully nourishing diet consist merely of so many calories or certain
vitamins or fixed proportion of starches, proteins and carbohydrates. We know
that our diets must contain in addition something like a score of minerals
salts."
"It is bad news to learn
from our leading authorities that 99% of the American people are deficient in
these minerals, and that a marked deficiency in any one of the more important
minerals actually results in disease. Any upset of the balance, any
considerable lack or one or another element, however microscopic the body
requirement may be, and we sicken, suffer, shorten our lives."
"We know that vitamins are
complex chemical substances which are indispensable to nutrition, and that
each of them is of importance for normal function of some special structure in
the body. Disorder and disease result from any vitamin deficiency. It is not
commonly realized, however, that vitamins control the body's appropriation of
minerals, and in the absence of minerals they have no function to perform.
Lacking vitamins, the system can make some use of minerals, but lacking
minerals, vitamins are useless."
"Certainly our physical
well-being is more directly dependent upon the minerals we take into our
systems than upon calories or vitamins or upon the precise proportions of
starch, protein of carbohydrates we consume."
"This discovery is one of
the latest and most important contributions of science to the problem of human
health."
Senate Document No. 264, 1936.
If you want to
be healthy, take responsibility for your own health and well being.
Supplementing your diet with ionic trace minerals and MSM is a definite step in the right
direction. Be well.
