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Show Soil May Build cr Weaken Our Bodies Value of Food Depends Cn Mineral Fertility "We are what we eat" and "what we eat depends on the soil that produces pro-duces it," declares Dr. William A. Albrecht, University of Missouri. "Human health troubles often come from poor nutrition which weakens the body. With its defenses de-fenses down the body is less able to resist the attacks of bacteria and other forces." "Foods from some soils provide only fuel for energy, other soils support sup-port crops that carry something 'extra' body building materials. Where rainfall is high and where virgin forests once covered the land, plants are barely able to put together togeth-er any more than fuel foods for themselves and animals. Properly managed with lime, fertilizers and legumes, these soils can be built to put into crops these body building build-ing values. "On the more fertile soils of the hard wheat belt, the former buffalo ( NOW WILL VOU BEUEVE THAT IMPROVED PASTURES A MAKE A BIS DIFFERENCE? J prairies, where the rainfall is less, plants are able to synthesize much more than just fueL Because of the mineral fertility left in the soil foods grown here contain body building, bone making values. "Neglecting to put fertility such as barnyard manure, green manures, ma-nures, lime, and other fertilizers back into soils to balance crop removal re-moval pushes crops on these soils toward to-ward 'fuel only' crops. These 'fuel only', crops mean poorer growth and lower health values. The declining de-clining fertility of our soils is a decline de-cline in the health of our soils, of our plants and of ourselves." |