Bear in mind, that minerals are vital to human metabolism and health, that no plant or animal can appropriate to itself any mineral which is not present in the soil upon which it feeds. We know that vitamins are complex chemical substances which are indispensable to nutrition, and that each of them is of importance for the 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.
Prevention of disease is easier, more practical, and more economical than cure.
Over 100 million people suffer from chronic diseases or illnesses. There is a death from heart disease every 45 seconds. 600,000 people die from cancer yearly. Chemotherapy increases the risk of a second cancer by 100 times. 600,000 people die from diabetes yearly.