Soil as limiting factor in nutrition via food

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Thanks, Bob.

That's a good, coherent, concise response that

covers enough of the bases to move us forward

in the discussion.

 

 

> Sun, 24 Sep 2000 16:54:03 -0400

> Bob Avery <rwavery

>Re: B12 levels on Hallelujah Diet

>

>Maynard,

>

> >Jeffrey Novick, MS, RD, Senior Nutritionist at the Pritikin Clinic

> >in Florida, himself a raw foods vegan, informed me this morning

>

>Mr. Novick incorporates some cooked food in his personal diet.

>

> >I wonder if the suggestion of nutrition supplementation, and its

> >significant as an " intervention " of some artificiality, alters the

> >nature of the rationale or the justification for the diet.

>

>Not if you include soil quality into the equation. The plants can't

>absorb what isn't in the soil. Modern vegan diets can be deficient for

>that reason alone, not because there is anything physiologically wrong

>with veganism per se. Today's soils are in terrible shape, even most

> " organic " farms.

>

>Bob Avery (RWAvery)