How Depleted is Our Soil?

One of the most common things you here in the media is that a a good diet will supply all of the vitamins and minerals that you need and that supplements such as multi-vitamins are not necessary. Here is an excerpt from the 74th congress, 2nd Session, Senate Document no 264.

"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. 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 system than upon the calories or vitamins or upon the precise proportions of starch, protein, or carbohydrate we consume. Laboratory tests 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. 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 a nation of big stomachs."

The scariest thing about the testimony that was given to the Senate is that it was given in 1936! This quote came from the book The Miracle of Magnesium. Just think about how much further the quality of our food supply has diminished in the last 70 years. In our world today it is nearly impossible to get enough of the raw materials we need for optimal health. For these reasons it is vital that everyone is taking a quality multi-vitamin.

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