Senate Document 264,1936,74th Dangerous diet deficiencies from our food

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Senate Document 264 1936, our Farm Land is Stripped of the majority of it's

minerals

 

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These are Verbatim Unabridged extracts from the 74th Congress 2nd Session:

 

" 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 text books 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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