If you think you can get all the minerals and nutriments in your food check out the science
SOIL MINERAL DEPLETION:
Studies By Dr Linus Pauling on Soil Mineral Depletion: Studies By Dr Linus Pauling, twice noble prize winner, said "you can trace every sickness, every disease and every ailment to a mineral deficiency". Yet, all over the world, minerals are disappearing from agricultural soils at an alarming rate. In 1992, the official report of the Rio Earth Summit concluded "there is deep concern over continuing major declines in the mineral values in farm and range soils throughout the world". This statement was based on data showing that over the last 100 years, average mineral levels in agricultural soils had fallen worldwide - by 72% in Europe, 76% in Asia and 85% in North America.
Table 2. Mineral Content of Selected Produce 1963 vs. 1999 - (mg/100g sample)
Produce Ca Mg K Percent Water
1963 1999 1963 1999 1963 1999 1963 1999
Apples, raw, with skin 7 7 8 5 110 115 84.8 83.9
Beans, snap, green, raw 56 37 32 25 243 209 90.1 90.2
Broccoli, raw 103 48 24 25 382 325 89.1 90.6
Carrots, raw 37 27 23 15 341 323 88.2 87.7
Lettuce, iceberg, raw 20 19 11 9 175 158 95.5 95.8
Oranges, raw 41 40 11 10 200 181 86.0 86.7
Peaches, raw 9 5 10 7 202 197 89.1 87.6
Peas, green, raw 26 25 35 33 316 244 78.0 78.8
Strawberries, raw 21 14 12 10 164 166 89.9 91.5
Tomatoes, red 13 5 14 11 244 222 93.5 93.7
In 1936, the US Senate was presented with the results of a scientific study it had commissioned on the mineral content of our food. The results demonstrated that many human ills could be attributed to the fact that American soil no longer provided the plants with the mineral elements which are so essential to human nourishment and nutritional health.
The following excerpts concerning Senate Document 264 of the 74th Congress, 2nd Session 1936, were found in the March 1936 issue of Cosmopolitan:
?? 99 percent of the American people are deficient in ? minerals, and ? a marked deficiency in any one of the more important minerals actually results in disease.?
From 1992 Earth Summit
Percentage of Mineral Depletion From Soil During The Past 100 Years, by Continent:
North America - 85%
South America - 76%
Asia - 76%
Africa - 74%
Europe - 72%
Australia - 55%
If the doctor tell you that you can get all your needs from your 4 food group that is why doctors live 56 years and the people that don't listen to them live 75 years