Flesh and Bones and More!

Guess what? We and the earth share many of the same properties. Who would have thunk it?

The average human body contains enough: iron to make a 3 inch nail, sulfur to kill all fleas on an average dog, carbon to make 900 pencils, potassium to fire a toy cannon, fat to make 7 bars of soap, phosphorous to make 2,200 match heads, and water to fill a ten-gallon tank.

You can find a wonderful report on the human body and what it requires in the way of trace minerals and nutrients to stay young and healthy. I am not qualified in any way to make any assumptions on the accuracy of any of the facts but I did find the report most interesting and want to share only a few little tid-bits with you. You can find the report at: http://www.traceminerals.com/humanhealth.html Minerals and Human Health: The Rationale for Optimal and Balanced Trace Element Levels by Alexander G. Schauss PhD.

Dr. Schauss states in his report that there are 92 elements and several more known and theoretical ones found in nature which may play a role in human health.

He cites another source of information regarding the absorption of these vital elements into our body, from a book by Ruth L. Pike and Myrtle L. Brown. Nutrition: An Integrated Approach (John Wiley &Sons), 1984, p.197) that: “Water is compatible with more substances than any known solvent, and therefore it is an ideal medium for transporting nutrients in the cells and for the chemical reactions of cellular metabolism to take place.” So, I guess drinking good water is good for you and with that information, I may attempt to drink more of it.

The report goes on to give some vital information regarding how we need to have a certain amount of hydrochloric acid in our stomachs in order to fully digest the foods we consume, and without this balance, we suffer from gastric problems, obesity, eating disorders and all kinds of really weird things. I always thought that hydrochloric acid was very harmful and when I looked it up, here is what I found: Hydrochloric Acid – n. A clear, colorless, fuming, poisonous, highly acidic aqueous solution of hydrogen chloride, HCl, used as a chemical intermediate and in petroleum production, ore reduction, food processing, pickling, and metal cleaning. It is found in the stomach in dilute form. Aren’t we glad it is in dilute form?

And one other piece of information which really relates to anyone who has an eating disorder and finds themselves overweight, obese, bulimic or anorexic – there is one mineral that is essential to the health and well being of the human body and that is ZINC. a mineral found in every fluid, tissue, cell, and organ, in the human body. According to the report …”Inadequate intake of this essential mineral can effect any of over 200 enzymes in the body, such as the enzyme, alkaline phosphatase. In patients with either bulimia nervosa (binge-purging behavior) or anorexia nervosa (self-induced starvation), zinc deficiency can directly affect cognitive and perceptual processes that help maintain these insidious eating disorders. Recently it has been shown that there is an inverse relationship between morbid obesity and zinc, meaning that the more morbidly obese the individual the lower their zinc status. This suggests that zinc plays an important role in the entire continuum of eating disorders, from obesity to anorexia nervosa. A similar example would be the mineral magnesium which plays a role in over 300 enzyme reactions in the body, many of which are directly related to cardiovascular health.”

All this and a good healthy eating program will get you slim, trim, healthy and young, or at least younger for a long time.

Think Thin Thoughts!

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