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Dietary approach in managing of mineral depletion

Understanding the importance of nutritional balance is the foundation for a healthy and high quality life. With any adverse health condition, dietary adjustments can render dramatic improvements in overall health. Providing a body with a full spectrum of nutrients such as vitamins, minerals and amino acids in the right ratios is the key to promoting a successful recovery from many health conditions, including an acidic body.

There is an abundance of controversy present towards the different type of diets due to the fact that there is no universal dietary plan for everyone. What works for one person will not necessarily help the other. Some swear by vegetarian and some by meat based diets. Indeed, both vegetarian and meat diets may help to rebalance nutritional deficiencies in a specific group of conditions. However, artificially created deficiencies present in each dietary group may eventually produce a rebound nutritional imbalance. Thus, each diet has a function that needs to be applied according to a health condition.

Before humanity had began to analyze the nutrition scientifically, the food choices were intuitively based on the requirements as embedded in the DNA. A body would crave the nutrients that were needed at the time of each meal, producing the desire based on sensory factors such as smell or color of the food. In other words, we would eat what we desired the most.

Back in time, when the foods were minimally processed and naturally grown on minerally rich soils, the amount of nutritional products consumed each day was well balanced between the calorie, mineral and vitamin values of each food. Unfortunately, the growth of population and global industrialization prompted commercialization of the food chain with an aggressive approach to grow more food faster, gradually depleting the soils. The mineral composition of vegetable, grain and grass food sources has changed, simultaneously affecting livestock, dairy and poultry industries. The nutritional quality of the food has degraded and the competitive wars between the food industry divisions prompted a profound shift in the tendencies of food choices within the consumer markets.

With development of television and radio, the consumer market has become heavily influenced by unnatural food consumption patterns as established by commercial advertisements aimed at increase of sales of processed meat, dairy, refined grains, desserts and high-sugar drinks reinforced by the fast food industry.