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What’s behind all this turmoil in our fruits & vegetables?
Don’t eat another decrepit carrot, sissy apple, or burned-out potato before you learn “The Myth of a Balanced Diet.” by Richard Dennis.
Even if you’re eating a balanced or healthy diet, your body almost certainly lacks vital nutrition. Even if you take vitamins, chances are your body is still starving for nutrition.
Recent research indicates that most people in the US have at least one hidden deficiency of a major mineral such as calcium or magnesium. Impossible? Not at all. Any deficiencies in your intake of food, water, and even oxygen are initially hard to spot. But over time, they can lead to degenerative diseases, even death.
Are you or any of your family mineral deficient?
Take this easy survey to see if you’re body is missing out. Underline each symptom that you or a family member suffer from. If you underline 2 or more in any category, you may have the indicated deficiency.
Group A:
Achy joints, tendency for kidney stones, heel or bone spurs, twitches, receding gums, gingivitis or phyrrhea, insomnia, spinal curvature, premenstrual distress, osteoporosis, bursitis or painful tendons, cramps (in legs at night, menstruation etc.) dental cavities, hypertension/irritability or arthritic conditions.
Deficiency - Calcium.
Group B:
Irregular heart beats, cold extremities (or simply just cold a lot) constipation, heart disease, hyperactivity.
Deficiency - Magnesium.
Group C:
Pale and anemic, chronic tiredness, recurrent yeast infections/candida, family history of cystic fibrosis, muscular dystrophy, cancer, heart disease or problems, cataracts, liver problems, strict vegetarian diet no milk, eggs or meat), muscular weakness or unbalance, low resistance to infection, smoking habit, residence in a humid high rainfall climate.
Deficiency - Selenium.
Group D:
Chronic tiredness, dizziness upon standing, frequent urination, always or never thirsty, impotence, infertility, menstrual distress, liver problems (digestion difficulty), alcoholism, family history of Alzheimer’s, hypoglycemia or diabetes, kidney failure.
Deficiency - Chromium and/or Vanadium
Group E:
Premature graying of the hair, anemia, wrinkles, sagging skin, thin skin, family history of aneurysm, liver cirrhosis, arthritic conditions.
Deficiency - Copper.
Group F:
Tendency to get infections, a cold or flu every year, your residence in polluted urban area, shallow breathing, tendency to be anxious or nervous, achy muscles a long time after working out, poor short term memory, severe headaches, bruises take a long time to heal, smoking, a sealed house or office with AC/Heat year-round.
Deficiency - Oxygen.
Minerals Before Vitamins?
Yes. Lacking vitamins, the body can use minerals. But without minerals, vitamins are worthless. You may think you’re getting your minerals in a “balanced diet”, but think again (And listen to the tape “Dead Doctors Don’t Lie”.)
Chances are if you’re not supplementing your diet, you’re one of the 95 percent of Americans lacking in at least one major mineral. Back in 1936 - almost 60 years ago, US Senate Document 264 lamented the lack of nutrition in our food. It’s worse now. How’d we get in this predicament?
How Our Ancestors Died
In the early 1800’s, Americans began to cross the Great Plains. What you may not know is that they never just settled in one place. Every three to five years, they’d have to pick up and move.
They’d start a little farm in Kansas or Nebraska, with a milk cow, a couple pigs, some sheep and a few kids. After 3-5 years, one of the kids would die. Dad would get consumption. The cow would dry up. The tomato plants wouldn’t grow more than a foot and wouldn’t make tomatoes. They were about to starve. If they made it through the winter, they’d throw all their belongings in a wagon and move a hundred miles west. And they’d set up again.
And in 3-5 years, another child would die. And the Missus would get consumption. Tomato plants wouldn’t grow higher than a foot or make tomatoes. The cow would dry up. If they survived the winter, they’d throw everything in the wagon and they’d move west again.
This Land is Leached Land
The sod was being depleted. Crops took minerals out of the soil, nothing put them back in. How did you beat that cycle? Own a piece of bottom land. Wealthy farmers owned the bottom land. When it flooded, they’d get new topsoil and silt and nutrition to the soil from hundreds of miles upstream. So if you were lucky enough to have a piece of bottom land, you didn’t have to move Why? Because the fertilizer would come to you.
In the prairies, the settlers were actually strip-mining the nutrients from the soils. If there are no nutrients in the soil, there’s no way the tomatoes or carrots or apples or potatoes could have nutrients in them.
Don’t Be Fooled By Technology
Commercial fertilizer came on the market about 1900. Problem solved? Not hardly. Next time you go to your garden center, look closely at the ingredients in that fertilizer. Nitrogen, Phosphorous, & Potassium (NPK). That’s it...nothing more.
Why? Well, no matter the kind of plant, whether potatoes, okra, corn, wheat, eggplants, carrots, or broccoli or whatever, NPK fertilizer is all you need to get the maximum yield per acre. That’s the only nutrition plants need. And that’s all the farmer gives them. But don’t blame him ... if he put a bunch of other minerals on the soil, his wheat would cost an extra 25¢ a bushel ... and nobody would buy it. He’d be out of business.
So think about this. It takes 3-5 years to exhaust the soil. And we didn’t start fertilizing until about 1900. So we’ve been putting NPK into the soil for 100+ years. Which means that for about 95 years, the soil has been exhausted except for what the plants absolutely need.
What Tomatoes Can’t Do For You
The fact is, animals and human beings require somewhere between 45 & 60 minerals, 12 essential amino acids, 16+ vitamins, 3 essential fatty acids, totaling about 90 nutrients. For the past 100 years, only 3 have been put back into the soil.
We know that plants can make amino acids, they can make most vitamins, and they can make different amounts of essential fatty acids. But nothing can make a mineral. That’s one definition of an element or mineral. They cannot be created or destroyed.
What the Vitamin Crowd Won’t Tell You
When you take a vitamins/mineral tablet, you’re taking in what is called “metallic minerals.” You only absorb 8-12% of these metallic minerals. The rest passes through you. Talk to a chiropractor who x-rays patients. He’ll tell you what he sometimes sees lined up in the small intestines. WHOLE vitamin & mineral tablets. Like little boxcars, taking a big, long ride through the intestines.
In the late 1970’s, the health food industry developed chelated minerals, wrapping amino acids or protein around the mineral tablets to help the body metabolize them. This increased absorption to about 40%.
Keep in mind ... metallic minerals (also known as elemental minerals of salts) come from oyster shell, calcium carbonate, limestone, clay, or sea salts. All in their metallic form. Supposedly, too much of some of these elements can have toxic effects on your body. Human beings are NOT meant to absorb metallic minerals. But whether your tablets are chelated or not, that’s where your minerals come from.
A 70 Million-Year-Old Gold Mine
But there is another form of minerals available. They don’t come from rocks & soil. They’re neither metallic nor salts. The minerals come from humic shale. What’s that? Well, it’s prehistoric plant life in its concentrated form. The minerals were first discovered on a Utah mountain top, and sold in 1926 as “Clark's Mineral Water.”
Today, these minerals are STILL mined on that mountain, from a 70-million-year-old humic shale deposit.The air was full of oxygen back then, not like today. Some trees grew 25 feet A YEAR! The earth was a nutrient-rich environment. There were no farmers strip-mining the soil 70 million years ago. There were Brontosaurus who got plenty of minerals in plant form, and you know how big they got!
The Hidden Key To Your Family’s Health
So how did minerals get into the plants back then? Of course, they came from soil & rock. But they were transferred to plants through the process of microorganisms breaking down the minerals for absorption.
And THAT made them colloidal. Which is our key word for today. Comparing colloidal minerals to rock and shell-based minerals is like comparing filet mignon to gristle. Colloidal particles are the smallest particles that matter can be divided into while still keeping individual characteristics. They range from 0.01 millionths of an inch to 10 millionths of an inch in size.Colloidal minerals have a negative electrical charge. And each particle is hundreds of times smaller than a metallic mineral. The colloidals stay suspended in water rather than going into solution because of the negative charge and their size/weight ratio.
Expert chemists say the reason colloidals are NON toxic is their plant or vegetable source and their negative electrical charge. For example, iodine in colloidal form is essential for human cells, however, if you drank even 2 or 3 grains of free iodine, it would kill you. In colloidal form, it’s not only harmless, it’s beneficial. Same for arsenic, lead, aluminum, and other minerals considered toxic.
Because of their small size, they have an enormous surface area. One teaspoon of colloidals can have a total surface area of over 127 acres. That’s billions of electrically charged minerals. Of course, some soil has the same number of minerals. BUT - being metallic - their particles are hundreds or thousands of times larger. And they’re positively-charged which makes a big difference. You can’t absorb them. If you were starving and you ate some soil, you’d get no nourishment. Only a plant can take soil out of the earth, run it through the processor, and make stuff that your body can use.
So Do Your Blood a Favor
Colloidal minerals are truly the most efficient way to get your minerals. You absorb 98% of them. They’re liquid. They’re small particle size. For comparison, a red blood cell is 7 microns or less. A colloidal particle is 1/7000 the size of a red blood cell.
Blood transports the minerals. Our cells store the minerals. The negative charge means they stay in solution or suspension. They don’t settle out. Very, very absorbable.
So obviously if you’re going to spend money for minerals, you want to get the highest value for your dollar. Plus, it’s a lot easier to get kids to take the liquid minerals than those big horse pills. And most of the kids’ products don’t contain minerals anyway. Read the label. Maybe they have one mineral. Or five. Fifteen, tops.
And the other 40+ minerals humans need? Not there. In fact, you don’t get the minerals or the balanced nutrition you and your family need to help manage stress and stay vital.
Power Unleashed
Our depleted soils have been strip-mined for 100+ years. They no longer contain the minerals and salts necessary to sustain proper health. Senate document 264 states 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.
Simply put the missing, basic elements of life back into your body, and watch your body heal. If your like most, you’ll be amazed!
This article was written for educational purposes. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This article is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. For any serious illness, consult your physician.
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