Balance Your Way To Health! © By Lena SanchezSome very wise people once made statement, "We are a nation of impending BIG BELLIES." Those very same wise people also stated that;
"It is bad news to learn from our leading authorities that 99 percent of American people are deficient in minerals, and that a marked deficiency in any one of more important minerals actually results in DISEASE. Any upset of balance, any considerable lack of one or another element, however microscopic body requirement may be, and we sicken, suffer, shorten our lives".
They go on to say "… each mineral element playing a definite role in nutrition. A characteristic set of symptoms, just as specific as any vitamin deficiency disease, follows a deficiency in any one of them. It is alarming, therefore, to face fact that we are starving for these precious health-giving substances."
"Our soils which are seriously deficient in trace minerals, cannot produce plant life competent to maintain our needs, and with continuous cropping and shipping away of those trace minerals and concentrates, condition becomes worse. We are a nation of impending fat bellies!"
These statements were made in 1936 by United States Congress, following a study of our food nutrient values, and reported in Readers Digest that year. Those facts have only worsened with years of land abuses, chemicals and pesticides introduced into our foods by farmers and fat bellies are now bouncing on every street in this world.
When my four children were born in late 50's and early 60's pediatrician recommended giving them vitamins but not once did he tell me that mineral were required in order to absorb vitamins. In years I worked in doctor's offices I did not once hear a doctor tell a patient how important it was to have sufficient minerals in order to absorb those vitamins.
Not until I read Senate report eight years ago did I know that minerals are catalyst to a healthy body and without them disease and obesity will rule. Then as I studied more into that premise I found that a requirement for ALL minerals is equally important. I see minerals sold all over place with 24 or 36 minerals but not whole 84 minerals and trace minerals our body was created with and need to stay healthy and balanced.