Minerals, Vitamins, Diet and Balance
By Dr. Michael Jonas Kahn Ph.D. Nutritional Science
The principle source of health for the body comes from the minerals and vitamins. It is these elements that are the building blocks of not only the physical body, but all the chemicals and hormones that regulate the body, as well as the immune system itself. Because everything is constructed from the minerals and vitamins, especially the minerals (with the vitamins basically acting as catalyst's).In other words, the body is like a finely constructed watch needing all its components to work correctly---80 some minerals and the vitamins. None of which if missing, or sufficiently deficient, will let it work at optimum health. In a 160 lb. person there will be 150 lbs. of water and carbon, 5 lbs. of calcium, 2.5 lbs. of phosphorus, 5 oz. each of potassium and sodium, 3 oz. of magnesium, silicon, chlorine, and magnesium, right on down to the trace elements such as iodine at approximately 1/15000 of a gram, etc. This is true for every human being, and to the extent it is not true will have a powerful effect on determining his overall bodies pH balance, metabolism, digestive strength, body weight and long term health.
So, for this extremely intricate and complicated watch called the body (consisting of billions of parts) to work correctly, it has to have all these elements in sufficient proportion to operate. All coming from the minerals and vitamins, which are mostly available from the natural foods---fruits, vegetables, rice, grains and beans, animal products and low fat dairy you should be getting in a balanced diet.
Thus, the basis of your diet should be the natural foods. Which when not followed becomes the main reasons for most disease. And thus the effects of a society that is hell bent on too much junk and fried food, soda, excess carbo's, fat, and now protein (since the body is limited as to how much protein it can digest). The excess of protein clogging up the blood stream, causing everything from high blood pressure and strokes, to colon cancer (when the body is unable to expel it, turning it into diverticulous pockets. The average person carrying between 10-30 lbs. or more by the age of twenty five). All evident today by the degree of diseases, weight problems and colon cancer being experienced as people age. (Adkins dieters beware and make sure your getting enough fiber!)
So basically you get sick, constipated, cancer, arthritis, headaches, etc., mainly for two reasons:
First, because you don't have the elements necessary to build the antibodies to combat the bacteria and viruses.
