Trace Minerals – Trace Elements
Trace Minerals - also called trace elements - occur in the soil and they are needed for all of the plants and animals biological functions. The amounts of trace elements typically in need to maintain good health are minuscule; it can be as small as one part per million, and often less. Our modern farming world has managed to only maintain 8 trace elements in its soils and products out of 72 biological trace minerals and elements.
This leaves us with a grave deficiency of about 64 trace elements in our food.
The practice of modern agriculture should seriously considered Trace Minerals or elements. They occur in the soil and are needed for all of the plants and animals biological functions. Trace minerals, so named because they occur in only extremely small amounts, are the important components of enzymes (co-factors). While the amounts needed are minuscule; it can be as small as one part per million, and often less, their importance and presence in the soil is great.
The practice of modern agriculture should seriously consider being part of the cause for many diseases, including kinds of cancer. To add insult to injury the majority of commercially prepared foods use water, in which food is prepared or cooked, that it gets discarded later. Discarding the water a considerable loss of more of the already severely deficient trace elements in foods is also thrown away.
The nutritional drama continuous at home where we frequently, in our home cooking, discard the water we have boiled our carrots, peas, broccoli, beans, spinach, potatoes, corn and other vegetables and with it all the minerals and trace elements hat have leached into the boiling water during cooking. Imbalance in Minerals on the cellular level is one of the basic causes of the many diseases.
To maintain the body’s integrity and a good health all living organisms need biological trace elements - as found throughout in all ‘’wild’’ plant and animal life. These are very important substances for proper growth, tissue repair and the function of metabolism, reproduction and immune systems. Balance is important to nutrition, but it is particularly crucial when it comes to minerals and trace minerals. The only food available which can claim that comes close to contain all the natural range of the all the biological minerals and trace elements is seafood.
Reasonably recent research (1998) has indicated the need for trace elements to maintain good health. It has also pointed out that we are getting in to our bodies far too much of the heavy metals thanks to both industrial and chemical pollution. For now, and until our modern farming practices change and we all understand the importance of replenishing the loss of those minerals and trace elements in the soil - diminished as a result of intensive farming and unnatural methods used.
The only complete natural way we can provide such nutrients to our bodies, from food we consume, with all trace elements, is the inclusion of a daily serving of seafood. The dynamic equilibrium of minerals and trace minerals found in sea water is complex and has been the result of millions of years of natural forces not fully understood yet.
The human system needs dozens of nutrients daily and two-thirds of those needed are minerals! However many imbalanced interactions are cause by the consumption of single processed or refined minerals in foods that are out of proportion with the other minerals and trace elements in need for proper balance and support of optimal health.
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