This process of soil mineral depletion through exhaustive farming leads to the production of mineral deficient foods. Furthermore it has been known that a deficiency of minerals in our diets will show up in the body as a disease just as a deficiency of vitamins does. A characteristic set of symptoms, just as specific as any vitamin deficiency disease, follows a deficiency in any one of them. Disorder and disease result from any vitamin deficiency. It is not commonly realized, however, that vitamins control the body's appropriation of minerals, and that in the absence of minerals they have no function to perform.
Sick soils mean sick plants, sick animals, and sick people.
Physical, mental and moral fitness depends largely upon an ample supply and a proper proportion of minerals in our foods. Nerve function, nerve stability and nerve cell-building likewise depend upon trace minerals. A marked deficiency in any one of the more important minerals actually results in disease. All bodily processes depend upon the action of minerals. Minerals provide the medium for proper transmission of electrical and chemical impulses to all vital body functions by our nervous system.