Excerpts From Senate Document #264

Excerpts From Senate Document #264

"Some of our lands, even in a virgin state, never
were well balanced in mineral content, and unhappily
for us, we have been systematically robbing the poor
soils and the good soils alike of the very substances
necessary to health, growth, long life, and resistance
to disease.

Up to the time I began experimenting, almost
nothing had been done to make good the theft. The
more I studied nutritional problems and the effects
of mineral deficiencies upon disease, the more
plainly I saw that here lay the most direct approach
to better health, and the more important it became in
my mind to find a method of restoring those missing
minerals to our foods."

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A 10-year test with rats proved that by withholding
calcium they can be bred down to a third the size of
those fed with an adequate amount of that mineral.
Their intelligence, too, can be controlled by mineral
feeding as readily as can their size, their bony
structure, and their general health.

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The public can help; it can hasten the change. How?
By demanding quality of food. By insisting that our
doctors and our health departments establish
scientific standards of nutritional value. The growers
will quickly respond. They can put back those
minerals almost overnight and by doing so they can
actually make money through bigger and better
crops. It is simpler to cure sick soils than sick
people - which shall we choose?"

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[EDITOR'S NOTE: It would seem that what we
chose instead was NPK, chemotherapy, prednisone,
below- the knee amputations, pacemakers, bypass
surgery, lift- gates and wheelchairs. One fourth of
our Gross National Product (1.2 trillion dollars) is
now spent on medical care, affectionately referred to
(by doctors and drug reps) as "health care."]