You will find some interesting background to this in the book, Bread From Stones,
by Julius Hensel.
You may have checked out some of the sites on the Coral Calcium debate. One of the claims made was that modern medicine had delivered us from several scourges, including polio. The truth is, that in The Netherlands, where polio vaccinations had not been introduced, polio decreased at a more rapid rate than in countries that vaccinated.
Do we get cancer because we have a deficiency of toxic chemicals and radiation? Yet that is a common treatment.
In a test conducted in England many years ago, crops were grown for 5 generations, one lot in organic soil, the other in commercially fertilised soil. At the end of five years, seeds from the organic plot were planted in the chemical plot, but still produced healthy plants. Seeds from the chemical plot planted in the organic soil, still produced inferior plants.
On our farm in Tasmania, we grew apples without commercial fertilisers for 25 years.
Our neighbours laughed at us and said it could not be done. One year the agent came out from England and asked us how come our fruit arrived in so much better condition than the other fruit they received? I have listened to scientists proclaiming that there was no difference between organic and chemically fertilised produce.
We have all probably heard it argued that we get all the nutrients from the food we eat, and that supplements are a waste of money. That no doubt was true of food as it used to be, and is still true of many supplements on the market today. If more than
half of them don't even disintegrate properly in the body, what good can they do?
But even Government publications have documentd the decline in nutrient levels in agricultural food products over the last 70 plus years. For some nutrients, the level has decreased by over 90%. How can we get all the nutrients we need if our food only contains less than one per cent, or up to ten per cent of some of the nutrients it used to have?
Because we are so deficient, there are many products that will make some difference. But if I were going to purchase supplements, I would like to know that they were in the correct balance, and in a form my body would assimilate, and at an effective potency, wouldn't you? That is why I continue to recommend the book,
NutriSearch Comparative Guide to Nutritional Supplements (Consumer Edition for the United States and Canada)
