| Minerals are we getting them in the food we eat? First it is important to establish that the need for trace mineral supplementation is very real. Factors such as soil mineral depletion & soil erosion are well documented. These factors have reduced the available minerals in farmlands to less than 20% of what they were even 100 years ago. The concept of re-fertilizing with NPK (nitrogen, phosphorus and potash or potassium) has been in vogue for decades yet there is overwhelming evidence to show that while this nutrient combination produces higher yield per acre the plants grown on those soils are weak and subject to attack by varieties of pests which then have to be controlled with potentially harmful chemicals. Dr. Weston A Price in his pioneer work entitled Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, discussed the issue of NPK fertilization and the dangers to higher forms of animals, including man, that must live on plants produced by such limited nutrients. He established the differences between truly healthy plants and NPK plants way back in the 1940's! Yet despite this long span of time nothing has been done to address the gross deficiencies of both our soils and the crops raised upon them. |
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