The importance of minerals in the diet is often overlooked. Life-sustaining minerals are necessary for certain daily bodily functions. Although the body can function poorly without vitamins, it will die without minerals. Minerals control the body's ability to absorb and use vitamins. Without minerals, vitamins have no purpose and are quickly eliminated from the body.
Many minerals require other minerals to be utilized fully in the body.
We naturally produce vitamins from our inherent mineral supply, so when that supply is depleted, the body suffers. In 1936, U.S. Senate Document 264 warned Americans that the soils used to grow fruits and vegetables were seriously deficient in needed minerals. Continuous cropping, poor crop rotation, pollution, loss of valuable topsoil due to flooding and over-irrigation has robbed the soil of the minerals. Crops took minerals out of the soil. And it will do so with the proper balance of nutrition and skin care.