LEARNING CENTER
Verbatim Unabridged extracts from the
74th Congress 2nd Session:
"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, such as those found in
our WaterOz products and MSM
is a definite step in the right direction. Be well.
