Show health unaffected by soil fertility status of land not disease cause any statement that cancer arthritis or heart disease are increasing because the foods we eat are raised on mineral starved land is if hokum according to specialists on the subject an article in successful Far farming magazine contends there is more oratory than knowledge about the effects of soil fertility on human health the experts talked to doctors of the soil doctors of plants doctors of humans nutrition experts and evangelists who say we are facing race suicide it was pointed out that heart disease is often linked to diet but not because food Is of poor quality rather bather stoutness and heart disease show a i As to arthritis and cancer millions will call you blessed if you can show definitely how to stop them through diet meanwhile it Is dishonest 0 to o give the false hope that soil treatment can cure these diseases other myths blasted in the artl j cle are 1 that the baby wont have good bones if its formula la is made of milk from a cow whose feed was deficient in phosphorus and calcium 2 that the adult wont build muscle and blood from beefsteak devoid of protein building minerals and iron 3 that all chemical fertilizers are poison and that compost and earthworms are the only means of soil enrichment we should use and 4 that we are being starved to death because the grains fruits and vegetables we eat come from soils which lack seeded needed minerals discussing starvation from a mineral deficiency in foods it la is asked why we havea generation by generation increase in the size of the bony structure of our young people it we are mineral starved so far as scientists know man needs some 12 mineral elements for growth ruminant animals need cobalt to make 13 plants also need 13 mineral elements 11 of them the same as needed for man and animals except for cobalt balt and iodine plants wont grow unless all the man needed minerals are present according to the article As to statements that some milk is low in phosphorus and calcium it is said a cow will take calcium from her own bones and put it in her milk it if her diet is low in calcium As that supply runs low she will give less and less milk but it will contain honest weight in minerals when her mineral supply is gone she quits giving milk and often dies from the effects of robbing her body A fertilized farm will produce more milk than one unfertilized but not better milk because it produces more grass there Is no evidence to prove the grass is any better blade for blade |