POTASSIUM DEFICIENCY SCAM KILLS AND MAIMS MILLIONS

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POTASSIUM DEFICIENCY SCAM KILLS AND MAIMS MILLIONS

Deliberately restricting your potassium intake makes you very ill,

and

thus vulnerable to hundreds of highly profitable medical " cures "

 

Copyright Joe Vialls, 30 January 2004

 

 

The title immediately suggests to the reader that a giant

pharmaceutical atrocity has been inflicted on the poor natives of

some far off third-world country, by a predictably greedy drug

multinational, but this is simply not the case. By far the largest

number of deaths and permanent crippling disabilities from potassium

deficiency occur in America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and

several other western nations.

How this horrific state of affairs came into being and

was perpetuated thereafter, is a very long and frequently confusing

story, meaning that we must start at the very beginning if we are to

have any real chance of understanding the lethal implications. We

first need to understand what potassium is, how much our bodies need

on a daily basis to stay healthy, and what happens to us when our

body's critical store of potassium is inadvertently or deliberately

depleted.

Unlike toxic sodium [table salt], potassium is essential

to our health. Potassium is present in all cells and is critical to

cardiovascular and nerve function, regulating the transfer of

nutrients into cells and facilitating muscle energy. This wonder

mineral also regulates water balance, assists recuperative powers,

and aids rheumatic or arthritic conditions by causing acids to leave

the joints, thereby easing stiffness. At the same time potassium is

vital for the elimination of wastes, is a natural pain desensitizer,

helps control convulsions, headaches and migraines, and promotes

faster healing of cuts, bruises and other injuries.

Because of its very high electrochemical activity,

potassium is on the move all the time, and we need vast quantities to

replenish that lost every day. When we exercise and sweat, we lose

potassium through urine. When we are under extreme stress for a

variety of other reasons, potassium loss can treble instantly. But as

renowned nutritionist Adelle Davis points out, it is toxic sodium

that causes the greatest problems. " Persons eating [sodium] salt as

they wished excreted nine times more potassium than when their salt

intake was limited, and human volunteers kept on diets deficient in

potassium retained so much salt that they developed high blood

pressure. "

If Mother Nature was to deprive you of potassium

completely, hard scientific evidence proves you would be dead in less

than three weeks. But in many ways this would be a merciful release

when compared with the infinitely more painful and far slower death

caused by slow potassium deprivation, the preferred method of the FDA

and AMA. Proper scientists agree the daily potassium requirements of

an average adult lie between 3,200 and 4,100 milligrams, but the

average potassium intake of Americans through the food chain is only

1,500 to 2,100 milligrams per day, representing an overall average

shortfall of 1,850 milligrams.

Obviously humans can survive at these savagely depleted

levels, because Americans manage to eke out about 70 years each,

before this basic potassium deficiency overwhelms them and they

finally die, sometimes in great pain from a number of directly

related illnesses including arthritis, osteoporosis, hypertension

[high blood pressure], angina, strokes and so on. It is

scientifically beyond question that all would live longer and suffer

less pain if they received the necessary quantity of potassium each

day, which is where the American Food & Drug Administration [FDA]

should do a John Wayne job, and ride gallantly to the rescue.

Alas, the Food and Drug Administration has not and will

not do so, because of sustained lobby pressure by the pharmaceutical

multinationals. Despite having full and unrestricted access to the

real scientific data providing hard proof of widespread potassium

deficiency bordering on a pandemic, the FDA has deliberately avoided

specifying a " Recommended Dietary Allowance " [RDA], while

simultaneously passing a law restricting the potassium content of all

alternative medicines to a mere 100 milligrams.

This is your first clue to understanding how it is that

we get so ill, and then willingly swallow billions of dollars worth

of useless 'patent medicines'. Remember, just to keep up with the

average shortfall of 1,850 milligrams of potassium per day, you would

need to swallow at least 19 pills from your local health food shop,

and no ordinary person could possibly afford that in the long term.

In order to keep their medical doctors in line, both the

FDA and AMA have circulated a number of truly frightening stories

about potassium. Most common among them is that the potassium

will 'react' with one of a wide range of synthetic pharmaceutical

medicines, frequently resulting in death. This is actually true, but

it is the poisonous synthetic medicine which causes the lethal cross

reaction that kills you, not the natural potassium so essential to

your health. Then there is the even scarier rumor that 'too much'

potassium will kill you by stopping your heart from beating, as in

the case of a lethal injection execution.

Too much of almost anything will kill you, including

simple water and air, especially if applied too quickly or by the

incorrect route. When Timothy McVeigh was strapped to a gurney and

put to death, the third chemical injected directly into his vein was

a 'chaser' containing 50 milliliters of concentrated potassium

chloride, which finally stopped his heart. If you are stupid enough

to try this at home, you will die just as quickly, and in order to

put this deliberate FDA and AMA scare mongering into the proper

perspective, it is necessary to explain why.

The normal route for potassium to enter the body is by

way of the mouth, either in the form of food, or sometimes as a

solution made up of 100% water soluble potassium chloride dissolved

in fruit juice. As the potassium passes through the digestive tract,

the cells extract what they need and any excess is then passed out of

the body, partly as solid waste, but mostly through the kidneys as

urine. It is a perfectly normal biochemical process that the body

itself knows how to handle very well, without any outside help from

medical doctors. However, if you inject the potassium directly into a

vein, you bypass the body's biochemical safety processes and stop the

heart.

Exactly the same can be said of concentrated hydrochloric

acid, always present in our stomachs in order to digest food, but

incapable of harming us because of the body's sophisticated

biochemical defenses. However, if you injected this same concentrated

hydrochloric acid from the stomach directly into a vein, you would

die even more quickly than you would from injecting potassium.

You can only be scared by a medical doctor if you allow

yourself to be scared, and you will no doubt gain added confidence

where potassium is concerned later in this report, when we examine

the extraordinary case of the Yanomami Indians of South America. The

Yanomami were fortunate enough to escape the attention of western

medical 'science' for thousands of years, and still shun it now.

These fascinating people receive virtually no sodium [table salt] at

all, but every adult consumes around 8,500 milligrams of potassium

every day. They are incredibly fit and have no history whatever of

arthritis, osteoporosis, hypertension [high blood pressure], angina

or stroke. We will return to the Yanomami a little later on.

Far too many of the 'illnesses' we suffer today can be

laid at the door of potassium deficiency, though hordes of

pharmaceutical and medical apologists will probably reject this,

claiming that medical 'research' proved long ago that simple

deficiency cannot cause life-threatening conditions. Sadly the

apologists will be defeated by historical fact, chronicled long

before your local pharmaceutical multinational decided to use your

body as a private playground for the benefit of its shareholders.

Scurvy is caused solely by Vitamin C deficiency, and is

thus predictably cured quickly by large quantities of Vitamin C.

There are thousands of documented cases, especially in the British

Royal Navy, where sailors became known as " Limeys " because of the

vast amounts of citrus fruit provided free by The Admiralty. Rickets

is less well known, but is caused by a deficiency of Vitamin D,

rapidly corrected by the generous application of Vitamin D and

calcium. Embarrassing though this may be for modern pharmaceutical

salesmen and medical doctors, these bald facts are there in the

history books for all to see. So why not admit potassium deficiency?

 

 

The beginning of the end for obtaining essential minerals

from fruit and vegetables happened in the middle of the 19th Century,

when German chemist Baron Justus Von Liebig analyzed human and plant

ash, and determined that nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium [NPK]

were all the minerals plants needed. He claimed that if fed

synthetically to plants, farmers could force plants to grow and

support healthy humans. Thus Von Liebig became the father of

synthetic manure, which in turn spawned superphosphate, the mother of

all deceptive fertilizers. Though NPK and superphosphate are able to

create a synthetic soil environment sufficient to stimulate plant

growth, the resulting fruits and vegetables are always seriously

deficient in trace minerals, with some containing none at all. Baron

Von Liebig watched the deficiencies his invention caused with horror,

and recanted before he died, but it was all too late. By then, the

big investors had moved in for a quick kill.

Running in tandem with the depletion of potassium in

fruit and vegetables during the 19th Century was an even bigger

problem. Until then, salt of any kind had been so highly valued on

most continents, that at one point in history it was actually used as

money. In Europe, Asia and Africa most of the salt moved by the

camel trains over thousands of miles was sylvite, otherwise known as

potassium chloride. Great chunks of sylvite were dotted along the

trading routes for the beasts of burden to lick at, thereby restoring

their electrolytes lost through sweating and other exertion. But when

the railroads opened up America from east to west, they started

carrying vast quantities of cheap salt produced in giant pans on the

two coasts. Unfortunately for Americans this was sea salt, comprised

of 98.8% sodium chloride, the favorite of fishes but a deadly enemy

of man. And so it was that in less than seventy years, western man

had his healthy potassium replaced almost entirely by unhealthy

sodium.

It was not until the early 20th Century that

medical 'science' started to determine what it considered were

healthy 'normal' levels for blood pressure, serum potassium and so

on, using data drawn from the population as a whole. The problem is

that medical 'science' was by then dealing with seriously damaged

human beings, who had already been subjected to the ravages of sodium

for nearly fifty years. So what seemed normal to American

medical 'researchers' in the early 20th Century, would have horrified

the Yanomami or any other self-respecting tribe one hundred years

earlier. But because American medicine got off on the wrong foot, it

stayed on the wrong foot, and slowly built a giant pyramid of myths

based largely on ignorance and fatally flawed biochemistry.

 

Despite the best efforts of the fledgling pharmaceuticals

and medical 'science' in general to belittle the problems, by the

nineteen thirties it had become obvious to most Americans that

something was seriously amiss with their soils, with their crops, and

with their rapidly deteriorating personal health. During the 2nd

Session of the 74th Congress in 1936, the United States Senate

published Document #264, which really laid the problems facing

American nutrition on the line. Verbatim extracts from Document 264

are provided at the bottom of this page, but for the specific

purposes of this report, here are the three most important

paragraphs.

" 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. "

" 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. "

So sixty-eight years ago, the American Government knew

full well the problems facing the people, but the stuffed-shirt

medical fraternity did absolutely nothing to help. In fact, driven

ever onwards by the extravagant fiscal needs of pharmaceutical

shareholders, medical 'science' and its subordinate doctors stood

reality on its ear, and proceeded to steadily undermine what little

good health the general community had left.

Learned doctors published papers on the 'potassium-sodium

balance needed by all humans', when a quick field trip to almost any

Indian Reservation would have reversed their absurd findings in

seconds. More and more sodium found its way into every kind of food

imaginable, and blood pressures started to rise sharply. By the

nineteen-forties, relatively new diseases such as arthritis,

hypertension and angina started to climb through the roof, to be met

with a veritable shock wave of expensive 'patent medicines' to help

with the new 'disease' problems.

A handful of alert doctors recognized the problem for

what it really was, and started giving their patients massive doses

of potassium [between 5,000 and 20,000 milligrams per day] in order

to bring their blood pressures back down to normal, and to relieve

problems with angina and other heart complaints. In fact these

treatments were entirely successful, but the use of a basic mineral

that could not be patented by the pharmaceutical companies was

frowned on, and medical research grants in this field mysteriously

started to dry up. By the late sixties such research has been

suppressed, as you can see from the [limited] general references

provided at the bottom of this page.

The pharmaceutical multinationals were by now exerting

increasing pressure on the medical fraternity, providing all kinds

of 'assistance' during their university training, with copious

quantities of fancy-sounding scholarships and research grants. Both

were vital in helping to get medical doctors to " see things the right

way " , meaning of course that profitable drugs were the answer to all

ills. As more doctors peddled more drugs to their patients,

pharmaceutical corporate profits rose sharply, allowing perks for the

doctors to be extended to include 'training seminars' at luxury

hotels and golf complexes, along with other varied forms of discreet

bribery.

By the seventies, all meaningful references to serious

mineral deficiencies had been removed from the curriculum, with

medical students taught that patients could obtain all the minerals

they needed from a diet rich in fruit and vegetables, although their

university tutors knew this was a complete lie. Deficiencies

manifesting as cramps, arthritis, osteoporosis, hypertension, angina

and strokes etc, became 'diseases' that could be treated by a truly

dazzling array of brightly colored and highly profitable

pharmaceutical drugs.

It was all a terrible illusion of course, but the show

had to go on. As toxic sodium increasingly overwhelmed healthy

potassium, the resulting potassium deficiency caused hardening of the

cardio vascular system, and 'essential hypertension' [high blood

pressure of 'unknown' origin] became the order of the day. Incidences

of angina, stroke and heart attack increased dramatically, as did

stress, with the latter feeding on the former. Because of a lack of

space, this report will only cover the effects of potassium

deficiency on the cardio-vascular system. Other directly related

horrors such as arthritis, osteoporosis, diabetes etc. will have to

wait for another day.

Modern medical 'science' has tried to explain away the

critical and frequently lethal human sodium-potassium imbalance with

an artfully designed theoretical model generally referred to as

the 'Potassium Pump', in which the medical buzzword is 'balance'. To

quote one medical article, " Potassium is pumped into the cell by

active transport systems, which concomitantly pump sodium out of the

cell. The preferential segregation of sodium and potassium across the

cell's biological membrane is important in maintaining osmotic

balance " . What osmotic balance? The Yanomami and other tribes prove

that ancient man had no need for toxic sodium, proving to all but a

certifiable cretin that the potassium pump is an emergency one-way

biochemical protective mechanism, designed to drive toxic sodium out

of the cells before it can cause mayhem and premature death

 

 

Despite the Yanomami's overall levels of sodium being

incredibly low, researchers who examined more than 10,000 of these

cheerful people found that there was a direct correlation between

marginally increased sodium intake and increased blood pressure. " ...

a highly significant statistical relationship was observed between

sodium excretion and systolic blood pressure for the 10,079

participants. The higher the urinary sodium excretion [and,

therefore, the sodium intake], the higher the blood pressure. "

The reader should remember that for the Yanomami Indians,

normal blood pressure averages out at 95/60 and does not increase

with age. Try comparing this with the AMA western 'normal' blood

pressure of 120/80, which then goes up in incremental steps as you

ingest more sodium and lose more potassium while getting older. Of

course, the medical apologists will claim this is because we are more

civilized, have evolved, and are thus 'different', but rest assured

this is pathetic rubbish.

The only significant difference between the Yanomami and

Americans or Australians, is that the Yanomami are stuffed full of

healthy potassium, while we are stuffed full of toxic sodium. The

researchers also noted that another benefit for the Yanomami related

to their lack of obesity. " Adults of industrialized populations have

an increase in weight with age. The Yanomami Indians did not increase

their weight with age. " Short, but to the point. Somebody remind me

to add " obesity " to my shopping list of potassium deficiency-related

ailments.

Those western ladies with a slight weight problem, should

resist the temptation to pack their bags and rush off to the

headwaters of the Orinoco River. Yanomami husbands are hot on

protocol, and do not take kindly to the lady of the house sneaking

off into the bushes for a quickie with one of the young bucks. If

caught in such a situation, the wife can expect her husband to fire a

sharp hunting arrow into the fleshy part of her buttocks. Not enough

to kill, but certainly enough to stop her lying on her back for

several weeks thereafter. Some choose to call this

behavior " barbaric " , while others suggest that it merely reinforces

strong family values. And oh, yes, before I forget, the favorite

supper dish is barbecued frog.

Of course, to prove that any of this Yanomami potassium

stuff is relevant to western folk, medical 'science' demands that you

must have western guinea pigs for 'controlled trials'. I am one of

those guinea pigs, though the trial was controlled strictly by me

without independent medical observers, which means that my testimony

is suspect at the very least, and I should probably not to be

believed. Quite frankly I don't give a damn about that, but the

information might be of use to someone out there who either already

has cardio-vascular problems, or is seriously interested in avoiding

cardio-vascular problems at any time in the future.

For more than 25 years I suffered from 'essential

hypertension', in other words high blood pressure that the medical

fraternity cannot explain. During that period about eight different

medical doctors gave me a staggering variety of 'patent medicines',

none of which produced a steady reduction of blood pressure, though

on two notable occasions the medicines caused 'bad reactions' which

dropped my blood pressure so low and so suddenly, that my wife could

barely get a reading. At no time during this 25-year period did any

of the medical doctors suggest that it might be a good idea to

measure my serum electrolyte levels, in order to check for potassium

deficiency. As you might expect, this entire sequence put me off the

medical profession in a very big way.

Towards the end of 2003 I started getting the classic

signs of 'angina', which, over the next six weeks, rapidly progressed

into 'unstable angina', a textbook case involving an accelerating

or " crescendo " pattern of chest and back pain that lasted longer

than ordinary 'angina'. This was accompanied by acute breathlessness,

especially after even moderate exertion or a small carbohydrate meal.

The fact that the medical profession did not know the cause

of 'angina' infuriated me, because everything on the planet is caused

by something else.

My basic knowledge of chemistry indicated that I might be

suffering from a sodium overdose, so although in extreme pain and at

times barely conscious, I managed to hook up to the Internet and do a

few basic Google searches. The only sodium overdoses I could find

were those caused by various synthetic drugs, so I reversed my search

pattern and tried " potassium deficiency " instead. It was then that I

discovered my medical 'angina' symptoms precisely matched those

exhibited by a person suffering from an acute potassium deficiency.

This information came as no great surprise. On the face of it, I had

uncovered the underlying cause of medical 'angina', the latter

credited with the sale of more than a billion dollars worth of

synthetic 'patent medicines' every year.

The problem was knowing what to do next. In Australia I

was limited to 100-milligram potassium pills from the health food

shops, or to a product called " Slow K " available from some

pharmacies. Basically Slow K is a slow-release 600-milligram chunk of

potassium chloride, which allows a 'non-lethal' dose of potassium to

be administered under the direct control of the pill, rather than

under the control of its recipient. The problem here is that all

chunks of salt are biochemically " hot', meaning that as the sugar

coating wears off the outside of the pill, the chunk of undissolved

salt is exposed, and can then come into direct contact with delicate

internal tissues. In my casual view, this could easily cause some

sort of perforation or an ulcer.

Clearly what I needed was an industrial quantity of

potassium in free flowing 100% water soluble form, which would allow

me to first dissolve the potassium in water and fruit juice, thereby

ensuring that no salt 'hot spots' could later cause problems in my

digestive tract. In the end I settled for a kilogram of AR

[Analytical Reagent] grade potassium chloride salt from a chemical

warehouse, mercifully not yet under the direct control of the

American FDA, or the Australian AMA.

Cost wise this was also a plus, because the whole

kilogram set me back a mere US$30.00 including taxes, which is cheap

enough when you realize that my potassium chloride purchase contained

approximately 620 grams [or 620,000 milligrams] of the same potassium

the FDA has restricted to 100-milligrams per dose in the health food

shops. You do the math. Pop down to your local health food provider

and ask for a quote on 6,200 x 100-milligram potassium supplements.

Be ready to write a very large check.

By this stage there was so much pain so often, that I

made a personal executive decision to attempt to slowly try to absorb

a minimum of 50 grams or 50,000 milligrams of potassium, representing

about 1/5th of the 250 grams total that an adult male should contain

within his body. Simple common sense suggested that such an acute

deficiency, with the extreme symptoms I was suffering, could hardly

be caused by a minor reduction in whole body potassium, and, quite

frankly, I also wanted the stop the overwhelming pain before it had a

chance to accelerate into a fatal stroke or heart attack.

With this in mind, I dissolved 4 grams [4,000 milligrams]

of potassium chloride in water and fruit juice, slowly swallowed the

lot, and then kept grimly repeating this process every eight hours.

After about five days [or 60,000 milligrams] most of the pain had

gone, but I was still incapable of truly coherent thought. It was not

until I was well past the 110,000-milligram mark that my faculties

truly returned, though by then I was so exhausted I could no longer

write or use the computer.

Expressed in the same terms used by the FDA, in ten days

I had slowly ingested 68.2 grams of dissolved potassium [68,200

milligrams], or sixty-eight times the maximum quantity permitted

under American law. However, it should also be noted that this figure

represents only five days of the maximum quantity administered by

licensed American doctors to their hypertensive patients during the

nineteen forties, before their research funding was mysteriously and

abruptly withdrawn. When viewed in the latter context, my actions do

not seem unreasonable.

At the end of the ten day period, all of my 'unstable

angina' pain and breathlessness had vanished completely, and along

with it most of the 'essential hypertension' that plagued me for more

than twenty-five years. Nowadays I take a daily maintenance dose of

2,000 milligrams potassium per day [3,200 milligrams of AR grade

potassium chloride salt], plus 200 milligrams of magnesium orotate to

minimize losses.

Though medical doctors might rave about me

illegally 'giving medical advice without a license', I am doing no

such thing. In the first place potassium is a naturally-occuring

mineral essential in our diets for normal development, which places

it firmly in the 'nutrition' rather than 'medical' basket. Secondly

there is no way that any government agency can prevent determined

people from getting their hands on potassium chloride if they really

wish to do so. The material is produced in bulk and used for hundreds

of applications. For example, about every third oil rig drilling in

the Rocky Mountains probably has about 25,000 pounds of the stuff,

neatly stacked in sacks at the edge of the rig site.

There are less difficult ways of obtaining potassium,

especially in America where there are a range of " No Salt " products,

most of which simply replace sea salt with potassium chloride. Fruit

and vegetables grown in strict organic rotation on properly

maintained soil will probably contain significant quantities of

potassium, though it is very difficult to check precisely. Although I

have the necessary knowledge required to test for potassium in a

range of different substances, I lack the laboratory equipment needed

to do so consistently.

On a closing note, try not to believe the advertising

garbage that keeps telling you the banana has the highest level of

potassium known to man, because it is a lie. If grown side by side on

suitable soils, the humble jacket potato has more than four times as

much potassium as the banana, weight for weight. This might bring a

wry smile to the face of many an Irishman, whose ancestors were

forced to live on a 'poor' diet of potatoes in Ireland more than a

century ago. The reality is that those potatoes, so very high in

potassium, gave the Irish the huge strength and endurance they

needed to build bridges and lay railroads half way round the world.

Looking back briefly on the Yanomami Indians, it is not hard to see

why.

 

The author is an independent investigator working alone, and

receiving only an inadequate disability pension. If you feel that

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Scroll down page for Senate quotes and further references

Verbatim Unabridged extracts from the 74th Congress 2nd Session,

Senate Document #264, 1936

:

" 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

textbooks 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. "

 

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Davis, Adelle. (1965) 'Let's get well'. Unwin Paperbacks.

 

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Egeli, E.S. et al., Am. Heart J. 59, 527, 1960

 

Grim ce et al 1970 On the higher blood pressure of blacks: A study of

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Keith, N.M., et al., Am. Heart j. 5, 80, 85, 1943

 

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