生吃圣经(Nutrition) Raw Food Bible(5)

Minerals

Mineral deficiencies can cause disease in humans. For example, goiter is an enlargement of the thyroid gland (in the throat) can be caused by a deficiency of the mineral iodine. When Iodine is added to the diet, the goiter goes away.

Mineral toxicity is widely recognized. The problems in children who have eaten lead based paints that were peeling off the walls and then suffered lead toxicity is an example. Many historians believe that the fall of the Roman Empire was caused by lead poisoning.

When occurring in food, fluorine is completely different from sodium fluoride that is chemically produced. Naturally occurring fluorine when consumed in plant matter benefits teeth and bones and can even help to protect us from germs but fluorine evaporates from food with cooking. Sodium fluoride (known also as fluoride or sodium monofluorophosphate), unfortunately, does not evaporate from the boiling of treated water and can cause many health problems in the human body. According to Paul Pitchford (and other researchers) in “Healing With Whole Foods”, sodium fluoride inhibits proper functioning of the thyroid gland and all enzyme systems and damages the immune system. He also lists the following disorders that may result from ingesting this toxin: arthritis (various forms of), lupus, and sclera derma. Ultimately, sodium fluoride increases the risk of cancer and other degenerative conditions. Have you ever read the warning label on toothpaste with added fluoride? It is very scary. It reads, “If you

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accidentally swallow more than used for brushing, seek professional assistance or contact a poison control center immediately”. I recommend fluoride free toothpaste.

Many minerals are lost in cooking. Eleonore Blaurock Busch, PhD. states in her book, Mineral And Trace Element Analysis, “Selenium compounds are unstable and loss of the mineral occurs during cooking.” Selenium is a very important mineral. One of the many ways that our bodies use it is as an antioxidant in conjunction with vitamin E.

There are also many disease conditions caused by mineral imbalances that are not commonly known. Since every person has a different need for each mineral at any given stage in his/her life, this further complicates things. It has been said that “one man?s medicine is another mans poison.” Minerals have been called a double-edged sword because too much of a mineral can be just as harmful as not enough.

Since 1986, I have been working with Trace Elements Inc., a laboratory that determines mineral imbalances in humans (and animals). This laboratory uses sophisticated equipment that dissolves human hair into a solution and then accurately measures the toxic and nutrient minerals that are present in the hair. Hair holds an excellent history of the minerals that have traveled through the bloodstream over the time that it took for a length of hair to grow. Through this process, I have helped many people regain their health by recommending ways for them to balance mineral ratios (body chemistry) through their diet.

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The synergistic and opposing relationships between minerals and between vitamins and minerals is complex. Let us explore some of these relationships. Calcium and phosphorus work synergistically in bone formation if the two minerals are in proper balance. However, when either one is consumed in excess of the other it may cause a problem with bone formation. Soda and carbonated water contain phosphoric acid to keep the bubbles in solution. Consumption of these man made fluids can overload the body with phosphorus and lead to bone density problems. Animal products are high in phosphorous and can cause this problem as well.

Magnesium can become deficient if an excess of vitamin D exists in the body. According to many experts as well as my own clinical experience, magnesium deficiencies are one of the most commonly seen problems. Magnesium is crucial for many very important processes in the body, including building bone density. I find that when I spend more time in the sun my need for magnesium increases. (As explained in the vitamin section. Vitamin D comes from the sun, so the excess absorbed from spending time in the sun is antagonistic to the magnesium.)

Because of the adversarial relationship between vitamin D and magnesium I believe that the consumption of vitamin D found in enriched cow?s milk may lead to magnesium deficiency. Calcium and magnesium also have a synergistic and opposing relationship. Since cow?s milk is very high in calcium and low in magnesium, consuming dairy products can also lead to a magnesium deficiency. This contradicts the widely espoused notion that

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consuming large amounts of calcium through dairy products is the best way to fight osteoporosis. Whenever you consume large amounts of calcium without also taking in balancing amounts of magnesium (and other minerals and vitamin D), as often happens when there are large amounts of dairy in your diet, you risk actually losing bone density. Countries with the highest dairy intakes have the highest osteoporosis rates while countries with the lowest dairy intakes have the lowest osteoporosis rates. But don?t take my word for it. Do some research and see for yourself!

According to research from Dr. David L. Watts, some minerals have stimulating or sedative properties. Most people are stimulated at the cellular level by certain minerals. These stimulating minerals include phosphorous, sodium, potassium, iron, selenium, manganese, chromium, and molybdenum. The following minerals have a sedative effect on most people: calcium, magnesium, zinc, copper, boron, cobalt, barium, silicon, and vanadium.

For example, I have had many clients who suffered from tight and painful muscles and where deficient in magnesium. When magnesium was added to their diet, the tight muscle problems vanished! Magnesium relaxed the muscles at the cellular level.

The best sources that I am aware of for minerals are organic fruits and vegetables-especially sea vegetables (see the chapter on ocean grown food) and micro-algae also known as ?super foods? (chlorella, spirulina & blue-green algae). The fastest way to get them into your body in to run the fruits and vegetables through a juicing machine and drink them or to consume powdered micro- 19

algae, (mix it up with liquid and drink it). There are many other ?super foods?: dried cereal grasses such as wheat grass, barley grass, and alfalfa are also excellent sources of minerals. I personally consume all of these foods: some everyday, others on occasion. They make me feel…Super!

Phytonutrients

Phyto-nutrients are nutrients from plant sources. This topic could

take up many large books. But I will keep it brief. Do you really believe that human kind has discovered all the nutritive factors of foods? New nutrients are being discovered all the time. So, when we process or cook the foods that come in perfect form from nature, what else is being destroyed in addition to what is known?

Dr. L. Newman, author of Make Your Juicer Your Drug Store, suggests: “One of the major discoveries in nutritional research was that nature never gives us isolated minerals and vitamins. She always gives them to us in combinations. Man probably does not comprehend one millionth of what still remains unknown in the field. We do know, however, that when we do fair, these vital elements from the master chemist, we are obtaining, besides the known vitamins, vitamins that have not yet been discovered.”

\problem most of us have is that we do not get the nutrients we need from our diet because most of the foods we consume are cooked and/or processed. Cooking at high temperatures and processing destroys vital nutrients the body needs to function properly. The organic raw foods that supply these

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