Minerals essential to health.

Perhaps the greatest area of misunderstanding in the field of nutrition, is the role that minerals, especially the significant trace minerals, play in a person's health. No longer does a balanced diet consist of so many calories or certain vitamins, starches, proteins and carbohydrates. We now know that it must also contain a score of minerals (elements), over 60, according to some scientists ! No matter what the symptoms are or the name given to your illness is, the basic cause is the same: you are mineral deficient or mineral imbalanced! The only exceptions are birth defects or accident injuries, and even in these cases, there could be a mineral deficiency.

It is unfortunate news to learn from our country's leading nutritional authorities that 99% of the American people are deficient in minerals and that a marked deficiency in any one of the more important minerals can result in disease. Fruits and vegetables, grown in today's minerally depleted soils, no longer contain all the essential nutrients. The use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides have added to the problem. Growing evidence indicates that the population may be slowly starving to death, without fully realizing it.

Millions of your cells die each day and must be replaced. The human body simply cannot achieve, or maintain, good health without a full spectrum of natural minerals as part of the daily diet. Minerals are the basic building blocks of all living things. Vitamins, amino acids, enzymes and all the complex substances the body needs to build new and healthy cells are dependent on minerals. This includes the difficulty to obtain trace elements, no matter how microscopic. According to medical researchers cell breakdown, which leads to degenerative diseases, is a direct…