Linus Pauling, who lived into his 90s, shocked the medical world when he said…. “You can trace every disease, every sickness and every ailment to a mineral deficiency”. I had stumbled on the reason for my tiredness and …. maybe yours.

Did you know that in early 2006 the national papers published a study that proved food was better for us in the 1940′s, and stated that the nutritional value, (mainly mineral content) of many foods has plummeted over the last 60 years? The Food Commission, who conducted the study, found that in the last 60 years, milk has lost 21% of it magnesium content, 2% of its calcium content, and 62% of its iron content. The same goes for meat, which has lost a massive 50% of its iron content. This means you would need to eat twice as much meat as 60 years ago in order to get the same nutritional benefit. We all recall our childhood when we were told an apple a day keeps the doctor away. Nowadays you might need to eat 2 or 3 to get the same amount of vitamins and minerals.

Clearly just like your car needs petrol to keep it going, your body needs fuel – in the form of good quality nutritious food. We don’t expect to run our cars on a daily basis without fuel and it is the same for our body too. If you don’t have enough vitamins, minerals and other important nutrients in your food then your body will start to run slower, lack energy and vitality and will eventually break down, which means illness and disease.

STOP and think, is your body functioning at its optimum level? Do you feel great most of the time?