“This talk about minerals is novel and quite
startling” |
“No man of today can eat enough fruits and vegetables
to supply his stomach with the mineral salts he requires” |
“A marked deficiency in any one
of the more important minerals actually results in disease”
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| 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 text books 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.
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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 of 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 running to big stomachs.
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No longer does a balanced
and fully nourishing diet consist merely of so many calories or certain
vitamins or a fixed proportion of starches, proteins and carbohydrates.
We know that our diet 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 of one
or another element, however microscopic the body requirement may be, and
we sicken, suffer, shorten our lives.
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