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The biggest
fallacy most people aren't aware of is
that if we eat a balanced diet, (the four
food groups), we get all the nutrients
we need to stay healthy and live a long
life. The truth is, this has been a matter
of public record for the past 60 years.
From 1936 we have the Senate Document 264,
74th congress second session. It announced
that our farm soils are severely depleted
of minerals. The grains, fruits and vegetables
growing in these depleted soils are deficient.
If the essential nutrients aren't in the
soils, the roots of the plants can't absorb
them into the plants and thus not into
us. What's frightening is that since this
was made public, nothing substantial has
been done about it. In 1993, The World
Health Organization said in a report that
our soil is now totally barron, 95% depleted
of the basic survival nutrients we need.
To make
matters worse is the food deliver system
utilized in the United States. Supermarkets
are food delivery giants who don't care
about nutrition. First, our plant foods
are picked green before mother nature is
done with them, many are gas retarded from
ripening, trucked across the United States,
and then gas ripened. By the time the food
gets to our dinner tables there's little
or no nutrition left.
The state
of our soil should come as no surprise
to us. With four to five crop rotations
each year on single plot of land, intense
farming practices have depleted vital nutrients
from the soil. What is alarming is that
these deficiencies are showing up in our
bodies. U.S. Senate Document 264 and the
1992 Earth Summit Report support these
findings and suggest that 99 percent of
Americans are mineral deficient. Both reports
further explain that a deficiency in nutrients
can cause us suffering and may even shorten
our lives. Only now are we beginning to
fully understand how the use of chemical
fertilizers, pesticides and waste contaminants
have fed the world, while creating a national
nutrition crisis. It's literally enough
to make you sick!
Lack of
proper nutrition in our diet is no secret
and is certainly nothing new. Below you
will find public record of the condition
of our soil and its effects on the American
public as discussed in the 66751014th Congress
2nd Session.
Farm
Land Mineral Depletion Senate Document
264, 1936.
These are Verbatim Unabridged extracts from the 74th Congress
2nd Session:
"Our physical
well-being is more directly dependent upon
minerals we take into our systems than
upon calories or vitamins, or upon 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
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."
"Laboratory
test 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 of 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, Year 1936.
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