52 MINERALS AND LIFE
General
Elemental and Biocombined
Life Expectancy
Full Range Mineral Nutrition – Ocean Life
Mineral Deficiency in Soil
Nutrition and Disease
Mineral Binding
Nutrients and Trace Minerals
Organic Farming
Poor Crop Nutrition
Soil Degradation
Soil Exhaustion
Diseases
Action
Minerals, Enzymes, Immunity – The Grand Connection
Summaries of Demonstrations of Full Mineral Feeding
General
At Saladacres we grow our crops with irrigation water containing 52 minerals in which the trace minerals are included in balanced, life supporting proportions. Nutritionist recommend that at least 24 minerals are required for normal health and this list is growing. Lifestyles involving exercise, combined with a consistent intake of all the mineral nutrients bound organically in plants will contribute immensely to a healthy, long, disease free life. The words chemical, nutrient, element, and fertilizer all refer to minerals.
The following text takes an overall view of minerals, health, and the food we now eat. The benefits of a diet with a full range of organically bound minerals are only touched on, because they could fill a book. There are many experimental results, observed results in populations, anecdotes, and other specific examples which in some cases are spectacular.
Elemental and Bio Combined Minerals
Dietary minerals are available in two basic forms; elemental and biocombined.
Elemental forms are available in the diet as inorganic molecules (not combined with carbon); ex. calcium carbonate, magnesium sulfate. Elemental minerals are absorbed only up to 10% in digestion (unless converted into bio available forms by gut bacteria. Minerals are essential for good health and a healthy immune system which functions to combat infections and cancers.
Elemental forms are taken up by plant roots and combined with carbon molecules in the plant to form part of the living plant. These are the biocombined elements that are absorbed 100% by digestion. It’s the best way to ingest minerals.
We offer minerals in both forms. Elemental forms are found in “blender minerals” that can be used in blender mixes, hot cereals, cakes, muffins, soups, stews, etc. The intake is about 2.5 grams per day per person and is a low cost alternative to expensive supplements.
Biocombined forms are found in all the crops we grow and total 52 minerals. It is also found in our juice drink, EMA, which is short for Electrolyte, Mineral, Antioxidant.
- EMA is a chlorophyll based juice, cold pressed, unpasteurized, and “alive” with 52 biocombined minerals
- refer to health.saladacres.net > EMA for a full description
- taken as 6-10 fluid ounces per day
- available as flavored, mineral enhanced, iron +
Life Expectancy
To estimate the maximum lifespan of humans, assume a biological standpoint. If an animal is fully grown at one year, its full life expectancy is six times that, or six years. Since man does not achieve full maturity until he is about 20 years of age, his full biological life expectancy would be 120 years.
Full Range Mineral Nutrition – Ocean Life
The sea provides its creatures with a totally balanced and adequate mineral diet – all 52 minerals are dissolved in sea water. It has been conclusively proven that the proportion of trace minerals in sea water is at optimum for the growth and health of both land and sea plants.
Animal and vegetable life in the sea is far healthier than similar life on land. Life expectancies of animals in the ocean are far longer that their land counterparts. When a cell in an ocean grown plant or animal has the full range of nutrients, and complete chemistry, it exhibits disease resistance. The same cell in a land animal will exhibit the same disease resistance when it has the same nutrients.
The disease resistance of plants and animals in the sea is remarkably different from land animals. In the sea, plants and animals are immune from all natural disease, because they have evolved to rely on the abundance of minerals in their environment for their immunity. There is a startling absence of disease in the sea, with not only “chronic” disease forms, but especially in the vigorous health of sea animals and lengthened life spans that are many times that of land animals. On land, it is a different story, because minerals are not universal. They are constantly being washed away.
All minerals of the atomic table are available in sea water in a consistent balance and proportion. They are available to all sea life. Sea plants ingest inorganic minerals dissolved in sea water and begin the food chain in the sea with a consistent range of minerals so the analysis of minerals from plant to animal in the sea is consistent.
Trace minerals are vital to the subtle good health of the function of plants. Sea plants are always disease resistant because they feed on a consistent mineral diet. The extreme opposite is true on land where plants grown even a few feet apart exhibit chemical differences. The distribution of micro or trace minerals on land is inconsistent.
Mineral Deficiency in Soil
Rain, farming, and distribution affect the mineral content of soils. Rain erodes the soil and dissolves out minerals. Water drains from the soil, into rivers and then the oceans, carrying soil minerals with it. Farmed crops also reduce the mineral content of the soil through cropping. In both cases, minerals are lost and must be replaced. But usually only the essential minerals are replaced by farmers (potassium, calcium, nitrogen, sulphur, magnesium, phosphorous). These will make the plant grow, while the other nutrients are ignored. They cost money. The distribution of soil minerals is also erratic. One area may have an abundance of minerals, whereas another area lacks.
At one time, virgin soils contained most of the minerals required to maintain health and vigor. The minerals, in time, were farmed out with successive crops over many generations of farmers, and never replaced. The land becomes more sterile with each crop.
The current trend of growing corn and soy crops for biofuels pulls minerals from the land to support the crops, which in turn are burned as fuel. This practice accelerates the removal of minerals from the soil which are not replaced, and never will be. Corn plant roots will go down into the earth 12’ in its search for water and minerals.
Nutrition and Disease
A mineral deficiency in the diets of either animals or people results in diseases and death because we share the same physiology. The more we are deficient, the more disease.
Ancestral foods are the foods that keep us well, and we evolved with them over a period of 2 million years. They are full of minerals.
The food chain is supplied with minerals in the soil. Since the soil minerals are in decline or non existent, they are not in the food chain. The original mineral content of virgin soils is gone. Both people and domestic animals eat the same grain crops that are grown on farms. These crops contain only the minerals required to make a plant, look like a plant. .Because of the mineral deficiencies, the health of domestic animals and people eating these crops is failing. This is demonstrated by the historical rise in the use of antibiotics for both animals and people, and diseases and cancers in people.
When corn, wheat, oats, and other grains are grown with a full range of minerals and then fed to animals, we see changes. The effects on the health of animals fed with crops grown on a full range of minerals is amazing compared to those fed with mineral deficient crops of the type grown today. Chickens, pigs, and cattle grown on food full of minerals reach maturity much sooner than animals fed food deficient in minerals (control), and all resist diseases common to their species better than control animals. Experimentally fed pigs fed a full mineral diet carried the benefits into a second generation where there were no runts in the litters which is something that “always happens” in a litter of pigs. It is a sign of malnutrition. Using animal research with a species bred to get cancer, and feeding them with food grown with a full range of minerals, the first generation cut cancer debilitation from 97% to 55%. Through each generation the 52 element feeding system installed a resistance to one kind of cancer in mice. The same was found for leukosis (white cell disease) in chickens, and arthritis in rats bred to get the disease. A summary of demonstrations of the benefits of full mineral feeding is written at the end of this Appendix.
Deer, elk, moose, bear, ducks, geese and other wildlife seek out the locations of grazing grass that contain minerals. They avoid “pulp grass” that is growing on demineralized land. They know. Grazing animals select areas according to better soils. They go through fences to get at highway shoulders, and seek land rights of way. These are animal demonstrations that the nutritive quality of the feed is related to the soil that grows them.
When plants absorb a full range of minerals dissolved in water, through their roots, they have the raw materials for their own immunity from diseases, and insect attacks. They are “healthy”: full of scents, color, seeds, immune proteins, flavonoids, vitamins, pigments, proteins, carbohydrates, and enzymes. Everything works. These factors are present in plants for their survival in whatever ecosystem they are growing, or evolved in. When people eat these types of plants, they provide the foundation for their own health and disease immunity. We have evolved as Homo sapiens over the last 200,000 years by relying on plants to give us the benefits from these nutrients. These are the “ancestral foods”. Now with sterile soil, none of the traditional benefits from plants we have evolved to rely on, are present; and we are suffering health consequences.
When we are malnourished, we open ourselves to attack from parasitic microbes – bacteria, viruses, fungii, parasites. We submit to slow poisoning through cumulative toxins and try to get something for nothing by growing food of little nutrient value on exhausted land. When you have cancer, diabetes, or cardio vascular disease, its time to realize that over the years, your diet has been deficient. It is nature’s law - you are what you eat. It’s a matter of choice over junk foods over ancestral foods. Junk food is sold in slick packaging by ad agencies.
Mineral Binding
The role of plants in the food chain is to convert inorganic minerals or nutrients to organic compounds, which can be utilized by animal life. In land plants the inorganic minerals are dissolved in water in the soil. Humans and other animals cannot obtain any benefits from nutrient minerals unless they have been hooked up with a carbon atom by the green plants. This is what is referred to as being “organically bound”. We evolved to source minerals from eating plants, or from animals that ate plants.
It may be more effective and efficient to supply certain trace minerals to livestock through the nutrient plant route, rather than add nutrients directly to the cattle feed. The animal food supplement industry is reported to be $85 billion per year, and if it wasn’t for supplements, the livestock would die. That indicates the land from which grass, grain, and corn is grown to feed livestock, is seriously barren of minerals and can’t maintain life. What about the people who eat grains?
Nutrients and Trace Minerals
Although only twenty minerals are known to have a specific role in human physiology, several more are known to have beneficial effects on the physiology of plants and animals. There remain the additional 72 minerals that make up the atomic table. The heavy metals, ie lead, silver, gold, cadmium, mercury, antimony and aluminum among them have a suspected role. But even known poisonous minerals such arsenic can be beneficial in some animals if they are ingested in organic form in a trace amount.
No element presently can be ruled absolutely unessential to humans. More trace minerals await discovery as dietary essentials in various animal species and probably man.
Enzymes are the bodies catalysts that make body chemistry work at body temperature. A trace element would be the pin, or hinge in a big enzyme molecule. Therefore only tiny amounts of the trace element are required. Enzymes require trace minerals to work properly. Since only a few enzymes have had their necessary trace minerals identified, only about 20 trace minerals are recommended in diets. However, since thousands of enzymes have been identified there are undoubtedly thousands more functions remaining that must be isolated and described. And with the thousands of enzymes, there are no doubt thousands of combinations of trace elements.
List of minerals in SA products: Those in italics are macro minerals.
Potassium Calcium Sulfur Magnesium Phosphorous Iron
Silicon Chromium Germanium Samarium Fluorine Antimony Neodymium Tin Lithium Selenium Tantalum Gold Rubidium Copper Silver Rhenium Iodine Manganese Cobalt Gold Barium Yttrium Gallium Ruthium Sodium Molybdenum Zircon Erbium Osmium Chlorine Vanadium Thallium Ytterbium Berylium Bromine Arsenic Tungsten Dysprosium Palladium Strontium Nickel Titanium Gadolinium Platinum Boron Cesium Lanthanum Scandium Bismuth
Thorium Indium
Organic Farming
Fertilizers, no matter what form, must first be converted into an inorganic state before the plant takes them in. Thus, manure must first be digested by bacteria in the soil in order to release the minerals into solution where they become available to the plant roots. The minerals would be released from the organic material in the manure – mainly cellulose.
Plants utilize minerals for their nutrition only if those minerals are in an inorganic state before absorption. This is the essence of the primary difference between animal and plant life on this planet. Plants take in minerals in the inorganic form and convert them to an organic form. Animals must have minerals in the organic form in order to carry out their metabolism
In the soil, bacteria break down the organic matter and release mineral minerals in inorganic forms. These are dissolved in water in the soil. Then the roots take the minerals in solution into the plant. When evaluated under botanical facts, the organic hypothesis which demands that all fertilizer be organic (ex. manure) in order to be beneficial is rendered invalid. All plant food is inorganic.
Organic farmers put no minerals back into the soil, except that which are in manures. Thanks to the efforts of the cattle’s gut, the manure is basically cellulose and water. A mineral is lucky to get through. The minerals in a truly organic farm will reach the undetectable point if manure is used. This, and health reasons (e. coli and and salmonella bacteria absorption by the plants from the manure) are reasons why “organic” vegetables and grains will eventually go away as a bad idea.
The same thing will happen to fuels from corn and soy. If minerals are sucked from the land, the land will become so sterile, it will grow nothing and blow away.
It is interesting to note that herbicides and pesticides started to be used in the 1960’s, about the same time disease and insects began ravaging plants grown on mineral depleted soils. Insects and disease affect weak plants.
When a crop begins to fail, it can’t produce seeds. Then it is called cattle feed or a hay crop. Insects and disease are the symptoms of a failing crop, not the cause of it. The use of sprays is an act of desperation in a dying agriculture. It is not the overpowering invader we must fear, but the weakened condition of the victim.
“Organic” Food and Cancer
Food labeled as “organic” by growers and marketers can be 20-30% more expensive than “non organic”. “Organic” foods, by definition, are grown with manure fertilizers and without herbicides and pesticides.
Manures from organically grown livestock are doubly sterile. First, the land on which the organic feed is grown is devoid of minerals, and secondly, the animal removes whatever minerals are left from the feed. The resulting manure is almost straight cellulose and water, with few minerals. This manure is then spread on the ground as fertilizer for organic plants.
If animals ate strictly organic feed, they would die. If animals ate strictly standard crops (wheat, corn, soy, barley, oats) grown in mineral deficient soil, they would die, and become sick with cancer and other illnesses. Farm animals raised for meat must be given mineral supplements in order to maintain their health. This is why the mineral supplement business is worth billions of dollars per year.
However, we routinely feed people “organic” and mineral deficient foods without any regard to the consequences. The cancer rate in people is now 1:3; that is one in every 3 people are expected to develop cancer in their lifetime. Never in history has cancer been so prevalent. No wonder! There are no minerals in the food chain because the food chain starting from standard crops is deficient in minerals, and the “organic” industry is promoting sterile food. Thus, “organic” food enables cancers. Foods that are labeled ”organic” should be considered nutritionally useless, if not dangerous.
Poor Crop Nutrition
Healthy Crops and the Food Chain
A healthy ear of corn takes 48 minerals from the soil; wheat and oats over 36; soybeans, apples, pears, peaches and other fruits take 30 minerals; most vegetables including peas, potatoes, tomatoes, carrots and lettuce take more than 25.
These minerals are mined by the farmer. The frightening thing is that the farmer will only replace 3 to 6 of the total number of minerals removed from the soil. The constant plundering of the soil cannot continue indefinitely without serious consequences in plant and animal nutrition. Most crops utilize an average of 40 minerals from the soil. In no case do fertilizers add more than 12 and most commercial fertilizers add a maximum of six minerals. We are exhausting the quality of our soils and as we do so the quality of crops goes down. And we are accepting this. To help farmers maintain their soils, farmers should be given a depletion allowance on their income tax the same way as owners of mines, oil wells, and timber tracts.
With science to show him the way the farmer has learned to grow greater amounts from the soil on less and less nutrients. What has mattered most is quantity because farmers are paid primarily on gross production; 80 bushels per acre are always better than 60 bushels, even though 50% of the 80 bushels is air compared to 10% air in the 60 bushels. The growing of food with increasing bulk, filled with air and fiber and devoid of minerals will diminish the strength and vitality of those who ingest it in the food chain. Animal feed supplements are valued at $85B per year. Its said that without supplements livestock would die. This tells us that the nutritive value of grain feed is minimal. What good then, is the pasta, breads, and cereals people eat? These are the same grains that farmers have learned not to feed exclusively to animals without mineral supplements because they will miscarry, contract diseases, and die. What about prople!?
The soil in the United States is overworked and underfed and this is manifested in diseased plants and sick animals. Examples are no fruit appearance, fruit of decreasing size and no flavor, and the increase in pests and diseases. Weak plants and crops, invite disease and insects. In 1934, the U.S. Senate declared soil in California barren. Furthermore, crops grown now have narrow genetic base, and this combined with poor nutrition leaves entire crops open to massive destruction from pests and diseases.
Soil Degradation
The balanced essential minerals originally found in the soil have eroded to the sea. Consequently crops are nutritionally poor and the animals eating the plants are therefore nutritionally poor. Every 24 hours the Mississippi deposits topsoil equivalent of a 120 acre farm in the sea.
Rain and field leaching within the last century a large percentage of the land in the U.S. has been stripped of its original plant covering that protected the soil. The land has been stripped, ploughed, and converted to grow food at an ever increasing rate, for an expanding population. Vegetable growing areas in the Ohio Valley once had 6’ of topsoil. Now they are down to 6”. Sugar companies have reduced Florida soils to almost zero. These examples can be repeated all over the country, and world.
Soil Exhaustion
There is a frightening and tremendous increase in the frequency of chronic and metabolic ailments because the minerals in the soil have been eroded, mined, leached, and exhausted by relentless, ambitious farming.
The Law of Soil Exhaustion is written in the ruins of past civilizations (Carthage, Greece, Rome, Easter Island, Crete Minoans, Mayans, South East American Indians, and others). The populations became weak, sick, and died away. It is the result of overproduction, with no mineral replacement in the soil.
Temporarily Outsmarted
Nature has been temporarily outsmarted by the farmer into growing crops on an incomplete soil. Since 1900-1520 to
1960 yields of corn, wheat, rice, oats, and sugar beets have increased 25-66%. However, in the same period, numerous diseases have developed in all grain crops because of the depletion of soil minerals.
Plants require a balance of minerals in the soil in order to absorb and synthesize them. The presence of absence of a trace element can be the deciding factor in determining whether a necessary element is absorbed into the plant’s root system.
In response to soil exhaustion, agriculture has begun the process of adding the basic minerals of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, plus lime (calcium chloride) in large amounts which initially has caused crop yields to increase. But, there is growing evidence that excessive buildup of these four minerals blocks the uptake of the vital trace minerals. Putting an incomplete range of fertilizers (minerals) back into the soil upsets the natural balance of nutritive minerals by stressing the importance of major minerals and, in time, leads to abnormal soil conditions. Plants then may take up abnormal proportions of other minerals to make up for the deficiencies in trace minerals, and begin to lose their nutritional value. This means the soil is ruined three ways: leaching away of crop minerals on ploughed fields by rain; heavy cropping that depletes trace minerals; and the excessive application of the four macro minerals to soil.
The growing of crops, especially corn, for fuel is a colossal mistake. Corn plants will extract water and minerals from the soil with roots that penetrate 12’ into the soil. Intensive corn cropping does the following to the soil:
1. Uses large amounts of ground and surface water for growing: up to 4 acre feet of water per crop with a groundwater depletion of 2 acre feet per crop in some areas
2. Nitrifies the water table with unused nitrogen fertilizer; increasing the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico
3. Exhausts the land of trace minerals – forever
4. Reduces the organic content of the land through repeated tillage; for every gallon of ethanol produced from corn, there is 24 lbs. of soil loss and this will be 136 million pounds of soil loss from ethanol production alone, in 2007 which is gone forever.
5. The pouring of millions of additional pounds of atrazine herbicide into soils, and water tables. Atrazine causes many health problems including cardiovascular disease and cancers.
For this intense farming activity, we have received the promises of the Law of Soil Exhaustion
1. A glut of food that is great in bulk but low in vitality
2. A lack of storage space for this glut
3. Increased crop diseases
4. Soil badly depleted of trace minerals
5. Rivers rich with minerals carried out to the sea. The rivers are fed by rain falling on massive ploughed fields that drain away the minerals
6. A population that grows sicker by the day, and can’t afford the medical system to get well
7. Animals and people lacking vital minerals essential to their health
This has weakened the food chain to where its amazing we are able to function at all. It is no wonder that diseases constantly attack land organisms, including humans.
Diseases
Current agriculture is geared to the production of bulk and the ability to fill. Thus the expressions “full but not fed” and empty calories. More attention must be given to replacing nutrients lost from virgin soil. As Charles Norman, MD, put it; “It is simpler to cure sick soils than to cure sick people”. Both animals and people suffer from disease, cancer, and miscarriages because of a mineral deficient diet. One could speculate that rising miscarriages and falling sperm counts in people, autism, chronic panic, and others are symptoms as well.
Plants and animals lose their immunity to microbes and cancers in proportion to the available amount, quality, and number of minerals they absorb, or ingest. In order to keep cattle and pigs healthy, they are fed minerals to supplement their diet of grains. If they were not fed these supplements, they would get cancers, diseases, have miscarriages and die. They would be rejected from the slaughterhouses.
In our food chain, people are fed grains with no supplements. People are fed grains that farmers have found inadequate for their own livestock. There many be some additions like iron, to white flour, but it is almost useless – a drop in a tank, just to make it legal. Any more would make it unprofitable and the banks and shareholders would not like that. Domestic animals are fed better food than people.
It will get worse. Pharmaceuticals address the disease, and not the cause. We get the big benefits from plants and second hand benefits by eating meat. Food production with a full range of minerals has to be the beginning of preventative medicine.
The Endless Battle
Every second, a battle rages within our bodies between immune cells and microbes – millions at a time – one on one.
If the microbes win, diseases, death, and total physical destruction are the result. It is estimated that the immune system kills 1,000 cancer cells a day, and we develop early cancers 10 times in our life that are eliminated naturally (Shand Cancer Institute – Gainesville, Florida).
For example, the “director” of immune cells in our bloodstream is the macrophage, or “big mouth”. This cell attacks, consumes, and directs the destruction of microbes and foreign invaders. Their working lives are a matter of hours and when they die they must be replaced. Materials required to make them are carbon, water, and minerals. Genes contain the building instructions. When cells die, the minerals are discarded.
Constant Renewal and New Minerals
Immune cells are combat ready if they are made with all the minerals required in their specifications. If immune cells are deficient in minerals, they are correspondingly weak in killing microbes. The key is the renewal of immune cells with all the required minerals, and this means a constant intake of new minerals in our diet.
Disease Resistance
Immunity in people can be built up through the ingestion of 52 elements organically bound in plants; for example, immunity to viral, fungal, and staph infections.
Organic Minerals
Humans and animals ingest minerals when they are combined with an organic mineral in plants. They are not effectively absorbed in the raw, or element form. For example, sodium in its mineral form in the compound table salt, or sodium chloride, will raise blood pressure and make you thirsty. However, sodium combined with an organic molecule in celery is welcome by the body as a builder of electrolytes. The natural law is: plants absorb raw minerals, animals absorb minerals when combined with an organic compound in plants. If an animal eats raw minerals, it relies on the bacteria in its gut to combine the minerals with an organic molecule. An estimate for the absorption of mineral supplements in their element form are less than 10% because of the bacterial conversion requirement.
Therefore, maintaining a combat ready immune system requires the constant intake of a wide range of minerals combined with organic molecules. SA produce and especially EMA Juice are storehouses of organic minerals ready to be absorbed.
Staph Invasion – A Case Example
In the last few years a bacterium known as methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has emerged just about anywhere a bacterium can grow – gyms, jails, hospitals, locker rooms, pools, hospitals, schools. Methicillin is a leading antibiotic. MRSA has become a simmering epidemic that is largely unknown by the general population. The rapidity with which this has spread over the last 2 to 3 years is unprecedented. In 2004, it was found that 64% of the skin infections in the emergency room at Olive View Medical Center in Sylmar, California were from MRSA. A large part of the problem with the spread of drug resistant staph is that it is difficult to diagnose. The first sign of infection looks like a spider bite – a small red welt. A test can take up to 3 days to culture and verify.
Staph likes to grow in warm moist areas of the body, such as the nose, armpit, or groin area. It can linger on the skin without causing an infection, waiting to enter through a cut or abrasion. Unlike many other germs, it can survive hours, possibly days on inanimate objects such as towels and catheters. More than 30% of North Americans carry some kind of staph infection in their noses. About 1% have the MRSA strain, and ½ of these have a newer strain that is more resistant but more damaging.
Once inside the body, the bacteria can bloom into rashes, pimples, and boils. Infected hangnails can turn fingers into sausages, scabs can form on the face, rashes occur in the groin area, fever results, and the body can be covered in red infected pimples and welts that are painful to touch. Sometimes the bacteria can cause invasive infections such as pneumonia or meningitis. In a few cases, staph infections can turn into nightmarish necrotizing faciitis, the so called flesh eating disease. In rare cases infection can be fatal.
Many carriers never develop a skin infection either because they have immunity, or the bacteria never has an opportunity to penetrate their skin through a wound or rash. But carriers can spread the disease. The best defense against this infection is a healthy, ready immune system. The maintenance of immunity relies on a steady intake of a range of minerals. SA produce and EMA contain these organic minerals.
Nutritionally Deficient in Minerals
We are nutritionally deficient in minerals and connected to nature. Here are points.
• Nature speaks most often in straight forward, single syllable terms – curt, chilling, impersonal and final. A starved robin falling from a branch does not cry
• Nature coldly reminds humans that we fit into her biological scheme of things
• There is a continuous battle and competition among living organisms to control the earth’s minerals
• All living creatures have sustenance because some other living organism before them has died – except for plants
• All animal food, starts as plants
• The most dominant life forms are bacteria, fungi, and viruses; they are everywhere on earth, and hibernate for long periods in bad conditions
According to the Centers for Disease Control, 61 million Americans are diagnosed with cardio vascular diseases (CVD). Nearly one million Americans per year die of CVD. That’s more than 40 percent of all deaths, at a rate of nearly two per minute.
Disease is any condition which interferes with the normal functioning of the body of an organism. A huge part of our aggregate lifetimes and total resources are spent combating illness and trying to withstand the ravages of age. Despite the huge variety of foods we have, we still suffer degenerative disease and fall prey to the aging processes long before the optimum life span of humans. We are what we eat.
Diseases stem from a weakening of the organism and subsequent parasitic infection by microorganisms which produce toxins and degenerate cells. Everyone has microbes in their bodies looking for infection opportunities and they are a constant menace. All organs, including the brain are affected by microbe life. Emotional stress may complicate matters and mental illnesses can be the result.
Americans are the best fed, mineral starved people in the world. The health and physical conditioning of Americans is alarmingly poor and Americans are the sickest of populations in modern society, and it worsens each year.
• More than 110 million cases of chronic or long running illness and disablement afflict U.S. citizens today; the numbers are higher if we take into account less disabling disease such as dermatosis, chronic migraine headache, and dental disease.
• 97% of people have dental disease; people need glasses; every year more than a million people die of heart and vascular diseases; one out of 16 Americans aches with arthritis and rheumatism; there are over 300,000 children with rheumatoid arthritis.
• Despite our wonder drugs, steroids, sanitation standards, and general medical wizardry, the U.S. has one of the highest infection rates per capita of any society - perhaps higher than India.
Reliance on antibiotics to combat infectious disease is to live in a fool’s paradise. A 24 year study was done to evaluate the long term results of wonder drug therapy. It was learned that wonder drugs had reduced the death rate from infection caused by pneumococci and streptococci but there had been and increase in deaths due to infection from bacteria which were previously considered harmless.
Daily Replacement a Must
There are no storage mechanisms in our bodies for minerals. . We are constantly getting rid of minerals through urine, feces, sweat, and breathing. They must be replaced on a daily basis
Disease by Dilution
If our present diet does not provide a complete range of minerals, then our cells are incomplete and subject to invasion by foreign organic matter such as bacteria, virus, and fungi. Although we may not have a known or diagnosed disease, we may be suffering from “disease of dilution” which is characterized by malfunctions in an organism compared with its normal state. In other words, we may feel “wrong” but can’t pinpoint the reason.
Most of the cells of man are replaced every 18 months and some immune cells in 24 hours. If the required minerals are not supplied by the food ingested as cell division occurs, dilution becomes apparent until these critical minerals are nonexistent in the organism.
There are no diseases of dilution in ocean animals or plants because the minerals are available in the sea water
Disease by Substitution
A plant can grow to maturity and yet make dangerous substitutions of minerals in its structure due to it attempts to compensate for an imbalance of the proper minerals in the soil. Meaning, if it can’t find what it needs in the ground, it will substitute another mineral to do the job. If our cells must compensate for the dilution, or lack of minerals, then they lose their resistance to disease. Our bodies are host to an enormous number of microbes that eagerly pounce when the slightest breakdown of cell function occurs. It is only logical that the cause of the frightening increases in chronic disease and the sorrowful process of aging is the absence of a complete, balanced mineral chemisty.
Action
Disease can only be prevented with proper nutrition that has all the trace minerals. That being established, what is to be done?
Saladacres grows crops with 52 minerals. At Saladacres, we are maintaining the optimum levels of all minerals in our irrigation water, and thus our crops. SA has developed 2 systems of irrigation. One for greenhouses and the other for fields. In both systems the irrigation water is recirculated which results in the conservation of both water and minerals. With recirculation systems, minerals are retained for the use of plants when they need them. Our systems are sustainable, pollution free, and economical users of water and nutrients.
The Grand Connection: Minerals, Enzymes and Immunity
We live in an ocean of billions of microbes such as fungii, bacteria, and viruses in the air we breath, the water we drink, and food we eat. Their mission is to use our bodies as a resource for growing. They cause diseases and death. After death, microbes take over completely and we turn into dust. The only defense we have is our immune system.
Immune cells in the bloodstream find and kill invaders such as bacteria, fungii, and viruses. They also kill cancer cells formed in our body. This happens millions of times per hour.
The killing mechanisms inside immune cells are enzymes. Trace minerals are the key components, or the bolts of enzyme molecules. The absence or shortage of trace minerals during the production of immune cells results in a weak or useless enzyme and thus a weak or useless immune cell.
A healthy immune system is constantly being rebuilt and renewed. Immune cells such as Killer T, B, and macrophages last anywhere from a few hours to a few days. They are constantly being replaced. In the hourly renewal process of immune cells we need a constant stream of a wide range of trace minerals.
The most effective way to ingest minerals is when they are locked with organic molecules. This happens when plants take minerals in the element form, from the ground through their roots. The plants combine the minerals in element form with organic molecules in the plant. This is the difference between plants and animals. Plants take in minerals in the elemental form, and animals ingest minerals when they are organically bound in the food chain.
SA provides plants with 52 minerals when they are growing. The plants provide a powerful set of organically bound minerals to those who eat our products. Our bodies can absorb 100% of these minerals when they are bound organically. These minerals are the foundation for a strong immune system and can provide resistance to infection and cancer.
List of minerals in SA products: Those in italics are macro minerals.
Potassium Calcium Sulfur Magnesium Phosphorous Iron
Silicon Chromium Germanium Samarium Fluorine Antimony Neodymium Tin Lithium Selenium Tantalum Gold Rubidium Copper Silver Rhenium Iodine Manganese Cobalt Gold Barium Yttrium Gallium Ruthium Sodium Molybdenum Zircon Erbium Osmium Chlorine Vanadium Thallium Ytterbium Berylium Bromine Arsenic Tungsten Dysprosium Palladium Strontium Nickel Titanium Gadolinium Platinum Boron Cesium Lanthanum Scandium Bismuth
Thorium Indium
Summaries of Demonstrations of the Benefits of Full Mineral Feeding.
There is a direct connection between these experiments and the value of plant foods grown by SA using 52 mineral feeding. The minerals are taken up by the plants while growing. These experiments show how animals benefit when they eat plants containing a wide range of bioavailable minerals.
A sea solid refers to a mineral mixture containing a wide range of minerals. When ‘experimental’ is mentioned, it refers to the addition of sea solids to the plant fertilizer mix. The control groups are without the addition of this wide range of minerals. The following notes are referenced from Dr. Maynard Murray’s book Sea Energy Agriculture.
Summary Notes
In 1954 we decided to conduct large field experiments with the use of sea solids as fertilizers. The experiments were conducted at Ray Heine and Sons Farms, located in Rutland Township in Illinois. The following describes soil experiments in 1954 and subsequent feeding experiments with pigs and chickens conducted in 1955. Complete sea solids in 1,500 pounds per acre quantity were ground up and applied to an experimental plot measuring 7.5 by 91 feet in a field where the growing corn was four inches high. The results from the above experiments are as follows.
1. All vegetables grown in the experimental plot had a superior taste. The lettuce permitted four cuttings compared with the control of two cuttings.
2. Oats: experimental = 45 bushels / acre; control 38 bushels per acre
3. Corn: experimental = 88 bushels / acre; control 75 bushels per acre
4. Chickens: 306 day old New Hampshire chickens were split into 153 lots each. 153 control chicks were fed a commercial concentrate plus a feed mixture of 2 parts corn and 1 part oats grown on control plots. The 153 experimental chicks were fed the same mixture, except the corn and oats were grown in mineralized soil.
The experimental group grew heavier at a faster rate, with the average feed consumed per pound of weight gained being 1.89 lbs., compared to 3.0 lbs. for the control. Thus, less food was required to get the same weight gain. 3 control chicks died, while none of the experimental died. Worms, nervousness, leg disjointing, and variable size was evident in the controls, with none in the experimental.
5. One sow and 6 pigs raised on corn and oats grown on land fertilized with complete sea solids were unusually uniform in size, showed no tendency to “root” and were easily contained in a small fenced area. When they reached approximately 180 lbs, they were taken off this feed and given control corn and oats. They immediately began extensive rooting and, by the end of the 3rd day, they were extremely nervous and broke out of the pen on 2 occasions. On the 4th day they were put back on mineral grown feed and were calm by evening. Thereafter they were easily contained in the pen and, again, showed very little rooting tendency.
Feeding experiments were conducted at the Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University, Chicago using the same experimental and control group of oats and corn. Mice, rabbits, and rats used in these feeding experiments have a different physiology than humans. The results are not definite but merely indicate an interesting trend.
The control food was the same as the experimental with the exception that it was not fertilized with complete sea solids (edit: a wide range of minerals). The food consisted of one part soybeans, 2 parts oats, 4 parts corn, balanced food proteins, carbohydrates and fats for mammals.
1. C3H mice were obtained for this feeding experiment. This strain of mice has been bred so all the females develop breast cancer which causes their demise. The mice were two months of age when received and started on the feeding experiments. The life expectancy of this strain for females is no more than 9 months which includes the production of 2 to 3 litters. The experimental and control groups both consisted of 200 C3H mice and those fed on control food were all dead within 8 months, 7 days. The experimental mice that were fed food grown on the sea solids fertilized soil lived until they were sacrificed at 16 months; definitive examination revealed no cancerous tissue. The experimental group produced 10 litters compared to the usual 2 to 3 litters and none developed breast cancer.
2. Sprague Dolly rats were obtained and were divided into groups of 25 control and 25 experimental. The control rats were fed controlled food while the experimental rats received the sea solids fertilized food. Both the control and experimental groups were injected with cancer (Jensen Carcino-Sarcoma) which has been shown to be a 100% killer. All of the rats fed on the control diet died within 21 days of cancer. Nine of the rats that were fed the experimental diet died of cancer within 40 days; 16 lived 5 months until they were sacrificed; there were no cancer “takes” in 16 out of the 25 survivors that were fed experimental food (64% no cancer).
3. 112 rats were fed on experimental food for a 6 week period. Then half of the rats were sacrificed and the thymus gland was removed and implanted in the remaining 56 experimental rats (editor: the thymus gland produces killer T cells that are responsible for killing cancer cells). The experimental group contained the equivalent of a double thymus gland and the control group no thymus gland. Jensen Carcino-Sarcoma was then injected in all 56 control and 56 experimental rats with the result that all 56 control rats were dead within 23 days. Of the experimental rats, 2 apparently had a cancer “take” but it was absorbed and disappeared. 4 of the experimental rats died of cancer and the remaining 52 were sacrificed 90 days after their original cancer injection. No cancerous tissue was found in these 52 experimental rats (editor: a 92% success against cancer, showing that this wide range of minerals has a direct effect on the thymus gland to reinforce the immune system to kill cancer).
4. Twenty four rabbits were obtained. Twelve were designated experimental and fed on food grown on sea solids while the remaining 12 were labeled control and fed accordingly. All of the rabbits were fed a high cholesterol diet for 6 months which produces hardening of the arteries. The control group did develop hardening of the arteries and all had died within 10 months. The experimental group did not exhibit hardening of the arteries.
5. A breed of rats that developed disease of the eye was obtained. The 10 that were put on experimental food showed no deterioration of the eyes and bred 5 litters. Those on the control food diet all died secondarily of eye disease.
6. Hay was grown in Lennox, Massachusetts on soil fertilized with 2,200 pounds of complete sea solids. Corn and oats grown in Ohio and Illinois on soil treated with complete sea solids were also obtained and fed by a dairyman to pregnant cows. One of the problems previously experienced by the dairyman was that his newborn calves from these pure bred cattle had difficulty standing in order to nurse when they were first born. They often had to be held for their first nursing and were often not uniform in size. However, when calves were born from the cows that had been fed on food grown on complete sea solids fertilized soil, all of the calves were immediately able to stand up to nurse and were uniform in size.
7. Steers weighing 1,100 lbs. were fed experimental corn up to a total animal weight of 1,400 lbs. It was found that these animals ate 1/3 less corn than was previously required with regular corn and they appeared to be in very good condition.
8. Experimental crops were consistently more disease resistant than control crops in field tests conducted in South Dakota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and Florida. Animals that were fed on field crops preferred the experimental food.
9. Experimental garden vegetables and fruits were superior in taste to control crops. Onions, tomatoes, potatoes, sweet potatoes, apples and peaches were outstanding in tast and onions could almost be eaten like apples. People who ate the garden produce said that in spite of the superior taste they did not seem to eat as much of any of the vegetables as they normally consumed. They became full or their appetite was satisfied on less food.
10. Feeding experiments involving pregnant animals fed on sea solids fertilized crops produced young that were very uniform in size and all of the offspring seemed to respond in dramatic fashion to this balanced mineral diet.