The giant supermarkets aren't concerned about our nutrition; it’s cash register that dictates bottom line. Plant foods are harvested before they've even ripened; many are gas retarded from ripening, trucked across United States, and then gas ripened. By time food gets to our dinner tables there's little or no nutrition left. But they sure look good.

No longer can we rely on a "balanced" diet with merely so many calories or certain vitamins or fixed proportions of starches, proteins and carbohydrates. We know for certain that our diets must have a score of minerals. And potassium along with many others just isn't there.

Research online can be resource of choice that let's us do research work rather easily. Armed with some good up to date education and information goes a long way towards correcting one's path to optimum health. The responsibility falls on us for self preservation, not doctors when it's perhaps too late.

We may also need to adjust our thinking for days of old. Our parents who didn't have information available today taught us what they could, but may not in fact be most effective approach today. When you gather your information you may very well be shocked, so stay open minded and be patient. Correcting sorry state of affairs with good mineral nutrition isn't difficult or over expensive.