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MODERN MIRACLE MEN 
DR. CHARLES NORTHEN, WHO BUILDS HEALTH FROM THE 
GROUND UP 
This quiet, unhallyhooed pioneer and genius in the field of nutrition 
demonstrates that countless human ills stem from the fact that impov¬ 
erished soil of America no longer provides plant foods with the miner a 1 
elements essential to human nourishment and health! To overcome 
this alarming condition, he doctors sick soils and, by seeming miracles, 
raises truly healthy and health-giving f ruits and vegetables 
(By Rex Beach) 
Do you know that most of us today are suffering from certain 
dangerous diet deficiencies which cannot be remedied until the 
depleted^ soils from which our foods come are brought into proper 
mineral balance? 
The alarming fact is that foods—fruits and vegetables and grains— 
now being raised on millions of acres of land that no longer contains 
enough of certain needed minerals, are starving us—no matter how 
much of them we eat! 
This talk about minerals is novel and quite startling. In fact, a 
realization of the importance of minerals in food is so new that the 
textbooks on nutritional dietetics contain very little about it. Never¬ 
theless, it is something that concerns all of us, and the further we 
delve into it the more startling it becomes. 
You’d think, wouldn’t you, that a carrot is a carrot—that one is 
about as good as another as far as nourishment is concerned? But 
it isn’t; one carrot may look and taste like another and yet be lacking 
in the particular mineral element which our system requires and 
which carrots are supposed to contain. Laboratory tests 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!) No man of today can eat enough 
fruits and vegetables to supply his system with the mineral salts 
he requires for perfect health, because his stomach isn’t big enough 
to hold them! And we are running to big stomachs. 
No longer does a balanced and fully nourishing diet consist merely 
of so many calories or certain vitamins or a fixed proportion of 
starches, proteins, and carbohydrates. We now know that it must 
contain, in addition, something like a score of mineral salts. 
It is bad news to learn from our leading authorities that 99 percent 
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 of one or 
another element, however microscopic the body requirement may be, 
and we sicken, suffer, shorten our lives. 
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