Depleted soils, nutrient-depleted food

​By Richard Drucker, PhD
http://www.nutritionalwellness.com/archives/2006/jul/07_depleted_soil.php

• If an element is missing from our soil, it will be missing from the foods we eat; hence, we will not be properly nourished. Unfortunately, that is the reality of today's soil.
• IT'S A FACT.  OUR SOILS ARE DEPLETED AND DEPLETED SOILS DO NOT PRODUCE HEALTHY, NUTRIENT-RICH PLANTS. 
• The commercial applications of agriculture have not only depleted the soil of precious trace minerals but also have broken down the ability of plants to utilize those elements.
• THAT MEANS OUR FOOD IS NUTRITIONALLY DEFICIENT RIGHT FROM THE SOURCE.  Then our food is refined and processed, which further degrades the nutritional value.

There are more than 70 trace minerals necessary to produce healthy, nutrient-rich crops, yet most current farming methods routinely put back only 3 to 5 of them. And that's only part of the problem.
Inorganic (synthetic/dead), ammonium-based fertilizers, along with herbicides and pesticides, kill the precious microorganisms in the soil that are essential to the creation of organic (carbon-based/living) mineral complexes.
We have done more than simply use up the available trace minerals in our soils (those in the form of organic complexes).
WE ALSO HAVE DESTROYED THE MEANS OF REPLENISHING THESE SOIL-BASED MICROORGANISMS. 

It is also easy to understand what Linus Pauling (twice awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine) meant when he explained to the 74th Congress of the United Sates, "Every ailment, every sickness and every disease can be traced back to an organic trace mineral deficiency." 
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