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5. Obtaining The Minerals We Need

5.1 All Minerals Present in a Natural Diet

All mineral needs may be supplied to the body by eating a varied diet of fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds and sprouts as they are found in their natural unprocessed state.

Before these minerals can be efficiently used, it may be necessary to give the body a complete physiological rest through fasting. A fast will enable the body to increase its metabolic powers.

Given that we lead our lives in a healthy manner, free from undue emotional and mental stress, we should have no trouble at all satisfying all our mineral and other nutritive needs from a simple Hygienic diet.

The efficiency of a Hygienic diet in supplying all of our mineral needs can best be illustrated by analyzing the mineral contents of two typical daily menus. These menus were taken at random from Herbert Shelton’s book Superior Nutrition, and the reader is referred to this source for more examples of the Hygienic dietary.

The first menu is a summer menu and the second is a fall-winter menu. The amounts of each food below were chosen to be the similar amounts an adult woman or man might eat. For increased mineral or nutritive content, the amounts of food eaten could also be increased in accordance with environment, type of work done, physical constitution, etc. All mineral content estimates were made on the conservative side.

5.2 Examples of Mineral Contents of Meals

SUMMER MENU

Meal Food
Breakfast Watermelon
Lunch Bibb lettuce
Yellow squash
Sunflower seeds
Dinner Cherries
Nectarines
Bananas

MINERAL CONTENT OF FIVE ESSENTIAL MINERALS

CALCIUM 400 milligrams
IRON 18.2 milligrams
MAGNESIUM 16 milligrams
PHOSPHOROUS 1150 milligrams
IODINE .245 milligrams

FALL/WINTER MENU

Meal Food
Breakfast Oranges
Grapefruit
Lunch Lettuce
Asparagus
Chard
Almonds
Dinner Persimmons
Apples
Grapes

MINERAL CONTENT OF FIVE ESSENTIAL MINERALS

CALCIUM 600 milligrams
IRON 18.9 milligrams
MAGNESIUM 458 milligrams
PHOSPHOROUS 800 milligrams
IODINE .235 milligrams

Looking over the mineral contents of these two daily menus, we discover that they usually supply anywhere from 100 to 180 percent of the officially recommended allowances, except for calcium, which totals 70 – 90% of our daily requirements.

It should be noted that calcium needs on a vegetarian diet (such as this one) are significantly less than the calcium requirements for a carnivorous diet, upon which the official recommendations were based. Consumption of flesh causes the body to excrete calcium to neutralize the toxins within the meat and the uric acid formed. Calcium needs are less on a vegetarian diet.

By adhering to a diet of fresh fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds and sprouts, a person need never worry about obtaining sufficient minerals in the diet. In fact, this is the most minerally-rich and efficiently utilized diet for humans.

Home > Lesson 10 – The Role Of Minerals In Human Nutrition
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Minerals In The Body
  • 3. Organic And Inorganic Minerals
  • 4. Mineral Deficiencies
  • 5. Obtaining The Minerals We Need
  • 6. Questions & Answers
  • Article #1: The Minerals Of Life By Dr. Herbert M. Shelton
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Comments

  1. george says

    February 28, 2014 at 3:30 pm

    good info, except, it is impossible today to acquire all of our mineral needs from diet alone, its true plants can manufacture vit, fats, amino acids, but not minerals if the minerals aren’t in the soil then there not in the plant and our soils are depleted of minerals, even the best organic practices still leave us starved for minerals. our bodies require at least 60 minerals and counting depending on whos material you read. I grow pretty plants with just NPK and I hope there is enough mineral content to make the plant grow. there are places on earth where the mineral content in adequate and these are the places where we see many disease free centurions. but for the other 99% must supplement if they want to remain disease free. also there is the problem of vegans not making it to 100 and most have many nutritional deficiencies.

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