“Every sickness, every disease, every ailment can be traced to a mineral deficiency.”

Dr. Linus Pauling, two-time Nobel Prize winner.

Where are the minerals?

Haven't you heard that the soils are depleted of minerals? This problem is bigger than you realize. 100 years ago, the soils were depleted. So bad that in 1936, a paper was presented to congress showing how depleted the soils were. That's pretty bad. In 10 years, soils get so depleted of minerals, plants will not grow and produce fruit. So, every 10 years or less, we need to put minerals back. And so they have. Sort of... They put fertilizer on that contains only three elements. Have you heard of N-P-K in fertilizers? That's the three minerals that they put back, nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. So that's great isn't it? No. There are 90 elements that have been discovered in the periodic table. Some are gases, so that leaves around 80 elements that should be in the soil.

So, 100 years ago, the soils were depleted, and they put on N-P-K fertilizers. That means for 90 years, the soils have been without any of the 77 trace elements. N-P-K makes the ground produce large yields, but most of the nutrients are missing.

Sometimes we hear about the lower mineral content in our food, so we think we just need to eat more. That's already a problem because we get full just as quick as we used to. But, if we eat more, we just get more N-P-K. Once in a while, they'll add calcium and magnesium to the soil, but that still leaves 75 missing mineral elements. Incredible. If you eat spinach grown in todays soils with N-P-K and even added calcium and magnesium, you'll be missing 75 elements. You could eat 100 pounds of spinach and still be missing 75 elements. Why are we having health problems? How can we not have health problems with such deficiency?

“Every sickness, every disease, every ailment can be traced to a mineral deficiency.”

- Dr. Linus Pauling, two-time Nobel Prize winner

What about organic? If you eat organic spinach grown in today's soils, it could be better, but it might not be, because organic methods use composting to replenish soils. This is good, but think about it. We take all the N-P-K grown mineral deficient apples, oranges, bananas, etc, and put the peelings in the compost bin. We still have compost that has N-P-K and very little other minerals, if any.

Where have all the minerals gone? They used to be in the soil and now they aren't. Some of them were in the plants 100 years ago and got eaten. The rest were picked up by the rain and washed away. Where did they go? The rain flowed to the rivers. Then where did the minerals go? Where do the rivers go? You got it. To the ocean.

So now what? You are telling me that all the minerals have gone to the ocean. This sounds depressing. My food is missing over 75 minerals and they are in the ocean. Now what am I supposed to do about that?

There is a way to bring ocean minerals back to the plants. We can get seawater, dilute it to the proper ratio, and feed it to the plants.

Tomatoes are genetically programmed to pick up 56 minerals, but tomatoes tested years ago had only 16-18 minerals, and it could be worse now. When they are grown with the proper seawater dilution, they pick up the 56 minerals that they require, and they taste fantastic, not like the “cardboard” ones in the store.

Now, if we could get all of our food grown in diluted seawater, each food would all contain all the minerals they are genetically programmed to have, they would taste wonderful, and we would feel great. If you have a garden, search for seawater agriculture to learn more. If you don't, here's a way you can get your minerals. Wheatgrass.

Cows only eat grass. That's all they eat. They can get all they need to grow big and healthy from grass. People, on the other hand, eat lots of different foods in order to get what we need. Grasses, then, have to supply all the needed minerals to cows. It could be that all of the grasses pick up all the minerals. We don't know for sure about all of them, but wheatgrass has been tested. The tests show that wheatgrass grown with seawater solution contains ALL of the minerals.

So, we go back to the case of the missing minerals. How many minerals are returned to the soil? Answer: 3, sometimes 5 or 6. How can the human body be healthy with 75 minerals missing? And how can we get them back into our bodies?

Use diluted seawater on your garden, and/or take wheatgrass grown in seawater.

If we could get all of our food grown in seawater, we would probably not need wheatgrass. But since we can't, and our food is so deficient, seawater grown wheatgrass juice or powder will help us get back our lost minerals.

Not all wheatgrass is the same

When wheatgrass is grown in diluted seawater, it has been show to contain all the minerals as discussed above. But you can't tell by looking. Wheatgrass can be grown without any minerals in distilled water and it will look nice, but be missing most of the minerals. If you want your minerals, be sure that any wheatgrass supplement you get has been grown in all the minerals, like in seawater.

Let's go back to the organic food issue for a moment. We gave the illustration that it's possible to grow organically, and still have mineral deficient soils and foods. It's also possible that the organic farmers have put some minerals back. Remember the ocean has all the minerals. Seawater has the minerals, and kelp and other sea vegetables will pick them up. Salt water fish will pick up the minerals as well. So if the organic farmers are putting kelp, sea vegetables and/or fish meal in their soil, they will be greatly increasing the minerals. By the way, the food tastes better. Another thing they can put on is molasses. Sugar cane is a grass, so it could be loaded with minerals if it was grown in good soil. When they make sugar from sugar cane, they separate the sugar from the molasses. The sugar doesn't have minerals. The molasses does. It's full of minerals, depending on the soil it was grown in.

So organic farmers could have deficient soil, but if they put on kelp, sea vegetables, fish meal, or molasses, their food will be far healthier and tastier, and will have far more minerals than conventional foods. If not, it might be a less toxic version of N-P-K food (missing 75 minerals). Usually the better it tastes, the more minerals it contains.

What about raw food? Raw fruits and vegetables are great. They can be packed with vitamins, minerals, and enzymes. They can give great health and energy. But, they also could be deficient. It depends on the soil they were grown in. Even people eating raw food may want to be sure they have all their minerals by adding seawater grown wheatgrass to their diet.

We will have seawater grown wheatgrass powder available in capsule form soon. Please email us at bentonhealthpromotions@gmail.com if you would like to be notified when it is available.

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