by
Paul
Benhaimhe following chapter on vitamins and minerals will look at the
uses and actions of each individual item. It is possible to
receive vitamins and minerals through consuming the right
amount of recommended foods. With an ideal living food and juice
diet, it is possible to never be short of these nutrients. As we learn,
it is often not a lack of vitamins and minerals in the diet but the
lack of absorption that counts. The role of vitamins and minerals in
the human body was only discovered this century, and 90% of
these discoveries have been made since the 1940s. As the saying
goes, necessity is the mother of invention, so when a problem
appears the solution will always follow.
In the past, there were fewer cases of vitamin or mineral
deficiency. Food was locally produced and harvested on mineral
rich soil, providing quality fruit for all local needs. At one time basic
grains, milk and milk products, and plenty of fruit and vegetables
were all we ate, supplying us with our basic needs.
Recently quantity has become more importance than
quality as technology has introduced methods of storing basic
foods in obscene quantities. Through the use of chemical
fertilizers and preservatives, it is possible to harvest more from
one piece of land and store such produce for a year or more. This
has led to international commodities that do not depend on what
season or how many vitamins or minerals they contain, but on
economic principles that are based on greed. Such systems are
proving to be failing all over the world.
Most cereals have had 3/5 of the vitamin and mineral
content lost due to refining. 90% of the western world eat nothing
but these refined, white flours from which all of the bran has been
removed. This has led to a disastrous condition in which a large
proportion of the population is deficient in some of the most
important vitamins and minerals.
People continue to eat polished rice instead of brown rice.
The same large companies that feed chemicals to the earth, also