Blue Dragon Essentials - A thought to consider

There have been great changes over the last seventy years or so in what kind of foods we grow and where, and also in the manner in which we do that. Artificial fertilisers, pesticides and genetic engineering have raised grave concerns. Many people also feel disturbed about what is done between when the food is harvested and when a cooked meal adorns our plates. Treatments to enhance preservation of colour and appearance during transport, storage and display, manners of processing that will affect nutritional quality and the addition of artificial substances that have been tested over relatively short periods of time or in manners that have been criticised, all of these make us justifiably suspicious of the foods we eat. Many of us can testify to the debilitating effects of any of the above influences.

There are a multitude of reasons to wonder whether the quality of the food we now bring into our mouths is still sufficient to maintain a good state of health into a ripe old age. For this reason more and more of us are turning to buying organic, locally grown produce if we can. We may even have taken to growing it ourselves. And we may think that that way we are nourishing ourselves properly. I would like to bring to your attention the fact that there are unfortunately good reasons to doubt the nourishing quality of any food, home grown or not.

There are two sources of information that strongly suggest that naturally grown foods do no longer contain all we need.

The first one is that in 1936 the American Senate had a report stating that the soil had impoverished to the point that it was not providing the necessary minerals anymore.⁽¹⁾

Here are some unchanged extracts from the 74th Congress 2nd Session
(Senate Document No. 264, 1936):

"Do you know that most of us today are suffering from certain dangerous diet deficiencies which cannot be remedied until depleted soils from which our food comes are brought into proper mineral balance?"

"The alarming fact is that foods (fruits, vegetables and grains) now being raised on millions of acres of land that no longer contain enough of certain minerals are starving us - no matter how much of them we eat. No man of today can eat enough fruits and vegetables to supply his system with the minerals he requires for perfect health because his stomach isn't big enough.”

"Laboratory test prove that the fruits, the vegetables, the grains, the eggs, and even the milk and the meats of today are not what they were a few generations ago (which doubtless explains why our forefathers thrived on a selection of foods that would starve us!)"

"It is bad news to learn from our leading authorities that 99% of the American people are deficient in these minerals, and that a marked deficiency in any one of the more important minerals actually results in disease. Any upset of the balance, any considerable lack or one or another element, however microscopic the body requirement may be, and we sicken, suffer, shorten our.”

"Certainly our physical well-being is more directly dependent upon the minerals we take into our systems than upon calories of vitamins or upon the precise proportions of starch, protein of carbohydrates we consume."

Over 70 years ago the state of the soil was judged to have impoverished beyond the point of providing us with healthy food. And no artificial fertilisers where used before then. I would be surprised if the situation in Europe or other parts of the world was much different from the one in the US. So irrespective of the use of mineral poor fertilisers the situation will not have improved since. Those parts of the world that profit from fertilisation by volcanic eruptions and the consequences thereof may have done better.

So it seems that over the years and centuries a severe depletion of the soil has taken place whatever.

The second one is a source of information that confirms the depletion of our soil and it’s balance of mineral content. This source suggests that it is indeed a problem that concerns the world all over and is taking place not just in our vegetable patches. It argues that demineralisation of the soil is a natural process; irrespective of whether it is helped by man or not. That it is a process that occurs periodically in that it occurs naturally during the period between ice ages in those areas that are not being replenished by volcanic eruptions. These sources even go as far as suggesting that for example the ability of the world’s vegetation to absorb carbon dioxide is dependent on a healthy mineral content of the soil. So this natural process contributes to a build up of carbod dioxide in the atmosphere and thereby to a natural return of the next ice age. During this ice age, a relatively long period of some 100 thousand years, glaciers break up rocks and turn over the soil sufficiently to remineralise for a next period of vegetation to thrive again for 10 to 12 thousand years. These sources quote some experimentation that provides interesting observations.

The answer to this is to remineralise the soil. Remineralising is done by spreading crushed rock onto the soil. This is proven to lead to vegetation that excels in content of minerals and proteins and all other nutritional substances well beyond what their relatives grown on “normal” soil contain. Mineral content of the plants can increase by a measure of 25 to 90%. Some of these plants also excel in size and appearance.⁽²⁾

I am, like the American congressmen in 1936, quite convinced that an influential key to our health is to be found in the mineral content and the consequences thereof of the food we eat,.

When you look through some of the research that is available on the sites mentioned ⁽²⁾ you can not fail to notice how much evidence stacks up in favour of remineralising the soil. The scale of the consequences of it on the vegetation is significant.

I suggest that all those who grow vegetables and maintain fields for lifestock have a serious look at this. It seems to provide the ideal solution to a nutritional problem of large proportion and serious consequences.⁽⁷⁾

If you, like myself do not posses a vegatable patch I would point to a different solution. There exists one product that I know to have been developed enough and researched enough to practically guarantee to provide living beings with all ingredients needed to flourish. Inclusive of all minerals and no pollution: BioAlgae Concentrate.⁽³⁾

It gives me the guarantee that I don’t have to question whether I need this or that supplement because it is lacking. Or whether I can cope with aspects of external pollution that I cannot avoid. ⁽⁴⁾ I can be sure that I receive all I need to cope with modern life. To deliver the quality that has been achieved this product clocked up research to the equivalent of twenty thousand men years. No price can reflect that.⁽⁵⁾⁽⁶⁾

Will our organic and home grown vegetables still nourish us?