Of the four principal or fundamental classes of foods we build the human body. Protein may be roughly said to correspond to the timber used, the heavy pieces of lumber that form the bulk of the house or its framework. Hydrocarbons may be regarded as the walls and flooring. Carbohydrates are likewise as necessary to complete the house as the wiring, heating, or plumbing systems. Most important of all is the proportion of organic mineral elements, which correspond to all the metal used in construction - nails, screws, fixtures, cleats, bolts, etc. With these latter elements we class nuclein, vitamin, and iodine, as these may be compared to the cement that holds or binds together the other elements.

Supposing we are building a house - our house. The limber yard supplies the boards, the shingles, the joists and the rest of the wooden portions. One contractor undertakes to furnish labor to build the walls and lay the floors; another to install the plumbing, wiring, and heating devices. From this point, it is barely possible that we might be able to slap together some sort of a house. But without nails, without hinges on the doors, without locks for the windows, without the metal elements, our house, if indeed it could be gotten together at all, would scarcely be a very comfortable or home-like place and it certainly could not withstand the first mild wind that happened along. So it is with the human house.*
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* Instead of Medicine, R.Swinburne Clymer, 1918
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Minerals are the true fundamentals of the building; they are more - with the vitamins they are the constructing, the vital, activating and energizing elements. It is they who control all the processes of life. They lock the building against invasion by the enemy, they hold together the various organs, they coordinate the telegraph and telephone systems and the lighting plant, they maintain the sewage system, man the blood pumps, and control all the other functions. These organic mineral elements are the most important portions of the blood, the cells, digestive juices, nerve tissues, brain, muscles, and procreative system. Without these vital elements the fluid part of the blood, the gastric juices, and the other secretions would be no more than an acid water. Without mineral elements to act on the starches, sugars and proteins, they would ferment and disintegrate instead of being burned up, assimilated, and built into the human house, replacing old portions which must be continually discarded. Lack of these organic mineral elements to act on the starches, sugars and proteins would permit the immediate formation of toxins and poisons, and the stomach, bowels, liver, kidneys, the pancreas, gall bladder, heart, lungs, glands, blood, would be quickly torn down. Just in proportion as these elements are missing in the daily food so is the state of the body and mind.

Nature in her infinite wisdom has so arranged the organism that at the first deficiency in the smallest cellular structure, an unmistakable warning is sent out in the form of aches, pains, mucous discharges, indigestion, insomnia, sluggishness of liver or bowels, unnatural tiredness, fatigue, dizziness, erratic activity, moods, emotional display, temperature, loss or gain of weight, and many other sensations.

Despite all that we have learned we blissfully continue to denature our food substances, and try to lull these various messages by the administration of drugs and potions - non-metabolizable substances - instead, as wisdom and rational thought would indicate, of seeking the cause - determining the elements missing, and supplying these to the crying organism.

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(1) These instructions are based on the findings of the International Research and experimental Bureau, and the Teachings of Drs. Harrow, Cargue, Rocine and others engaged in dietetic research.
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Potassium, in the form of potassium phosphate, helps to build up and support the entire muscular system, as well as all muscular fibers and cells throughout the body. Potassium is essential in all synthetic processes of chemical combinations in every form of organic life; in the formation of glycogen from glucose, fats from glycogen, and proteins from peptones. The liver is one of the most important organs of the body as regards governing normality of both body and mind and is the principal laboratory in the formation of glycogen. If potassium is missing in the diet, the heart valves may shrink, resulting in valvular regurgitation. Potassium is necessary in keeping the blood and tissues alkaline. It helps in the manufacture of fibrin in the blood and is, in part, the basis of both the healing power and resistance against the invasion of disease.

Potassium is necessary in the metabolism of albumen, casein, fibrin. It is always constructive and when sufficiently supplied, all injuries, cuts, and bruises heal more rapidly. Potassium is necessary in the processes of the nervous system, to internal oxidization, the proper distribution of heat, cellular life, alkalinization of the urine, the conductivity of the nerves, muscular coordination, capillary activity and the health of the hair.

Because of its affinity for oxygen, potassium increases tissue oxidation. When there is a lack of vital potassium in the food, there is constant liability of sickness, infection and inactivity of the liver with attendant ailments - the liver requiring two portions of potassium to one of sodium.

The ailments frequently resulting because of a deficiency of this organic mineral element are: Throbbing and periodic headaches, lusterless eyes, poor eyesight, abnormal perspiration, muscular atrophy, numbness, paralytic symptoms, internal fevers, ulcers and tumors, cancer, stomach ailments and digestive disturbances, fallen organisms such as stomach, kidneys, uterus, etc., anemia, spasms, and hallucinations in conjunction with neurasthenia.

Potassium unites with sulphur to regulate the oil in the skin and for the hair; with sodium in the liver in the chemistry of saponification, and with calcium in the prevention or treatment of arthritis, beriberi, pellagra, hardening of the arteries, paralysis, muscular prostration, and other symptoms.

Vital sodium, as found in food substances, is the chemical solvent and neutralizer of morbid products in the body and keeps the calcium element properly distributed, preventing localization as in arthritis.

Sodium in combination with chlorine is one of the important constituents of the lymph. In the transmission of the electric-magnetic induction current generated in the nerve spiral by the iron in the blood, a saline solution is necessary, as shown by the construction of electric batteries. For this purpose the blood stream contains a large quantity of sodium chloride, which permits and sustains the generation and conduction of electric currents.

Sodium keeps the calcium and magnesia elements in the food soluble and easy to dissolve so as to permit perfect assimilation. Calcium and magnesium when not kept properly dissolved and distributed by sodium have the tendency to deposit themselves in various parts of the body, obstructing the capillaries and being a cause of gall and bladder stones. Sodium protects the blood from becoming too readily coagulated, as it also does in milk, where it keeps the casein, which is combined with lime and magnesia, in solution.

Sodium plays an important role in the formation of saliva, the pancreatic juice, and bile. In the bile, the dissolving and reducing properties of sodium can be easily recognized in the emulsification and saponification of fats.

The excretion of carbonic acid through the lungs is carried on by the sodium derivatives contained in the blood and lymph. Sodium is therefore essential for the purification of the system from poisonous carbonaceous waste products.

Sodium acts on the brain, the secretions, the mucous and serous membranes, the throat, alimentary canal, secretory glands, the stomach, intestines, spleen, pancreas, and affects the albumin metabolism. It is essential to the spleen; while the liver contains approximately twice as much lime as sodium, the spleen contains twice as much sodium as the liver. Sodium helps to regulate the dilution in the body fluids and prevents excess diluent in the blood stream.(*)
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(*) This indicates an aqueous or solvent dilution, or at least a distension of the suspending medium. Since sodium increases the osmotic pressure - as does any other soluble compound - it prevents dilution of the blood by aqueous fluids up to the isobaric point of equilibrium and causes its own solution to become diluted down to the same point.
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In conjunction or combination with sulphur, it acts on the liver, and incites the stomach and bowels to normal activity. Sodium is part of the saliva and bile, and counteracts acidity by neutralizing bodily acids such as acetic, butyric, and lactic. The ingestion of too great an amount of fatty foods drains the system of sodium and results in abnormalities of the stomach, fermentation, and prostration. A deficiency of sodium will permit a destructive intestinal flora to form in the alimentary canal which may bring about premature old age or death. Sodium is abundantly required in heavy physical labor, during excitement, excess of emotions, perspiration, heavy brain work, pregnancy, menstruation, functioning of the spleen, gastric secretions, bile, blood, intestinal secretions, joints, liver, muscles, brain, blood corpuscles, fibrous tissue, cartilage, blood serum.

Calcium may be in excess, localized, or improperly distributed, but sodium is never supplied beyond the requirements of the body, therefore all people suffer more or less for want of vital sodium.

Sodium is called for in cancers and tumors, gout, slow digestion, fermentation of food, vomiting of infants, frontal headaches, bloating after eating, dim eyesight, mental confusion, catarrh, murky complexion, dryness of tongue and skin, feeling of heaviness in a warm room, sleepiness during the day, joints that crack on moving stiff tendons, bruised feeling of the flesh, lack of saliva, thirst after meals, difficulty in digesting starches, sweets, and fats, when digestion is slow and productive of gas, restlessness, nervousness, and weariness. In practically all stomach troubles, constipation, gout, arthritis, sodium must be supplied in conjunction with calcium and potassium and, fortunately, many of the foods rich in one of these elements also contain a great deal of the others.

Sodium is a cleanser and maintains the alkalinity of the system and is a preventive of acidosis and its associated ailments.

The bony structure of both man and animal is made up of about fifty per cent calcium. Calcium is not only essential in the formation of the bones but in the activity of every other organism n the body. Calcium in combination with iron is necessary for the production of the red blood corpuscles, which are essential for proper respiration and chemically to combine with oxygen. Without proper respiration the metabolized food is not oxidized as thoroughly as it should be and this permits the accumulation of fat. All protein cells are combined with small quantities of calcium salts.

Calcium is of paramount importance to the pregnant woman in the building of the new body and must be abundantly supplied in its vital form in foods. Calcium is indicated where there is a tendency to bleed, as in uterine hemorrhages, in rickets, softening of the bones and tuberculosis. All curdling processes require this element and the making of cheese would be impossible without it. Calcium in the form of lactate is necessary in operations and foods rich in this substance should be abundantly supplied in operations, broken bones, hemorrhages and for the growth of children. Wounds would not heal without calcium nor could the heart function properly. Calcium increases the life of the cells of the body. It soothes the nerves and helps overcome nervous conditions. It is an essential agent n the prevention and treatment of such diseases as asthma and hay fever and in anemic and tubercular conditions.

When calcium is lacking in the diet then will power is below par and, due to its deficiency, man may actually become a weakling or idiotic. Fears, dread of night, unfounded worry, indecision, and failure in life may be due to calcium deficiency. The formation of pus, softening of the bone, poor teeth, cystic goitre, swelling glands, weak lungs, suppurations, flabby flesh, ringing in the ears abhorrent bodily odors, thin blood, earache, sallow complexion, sensitiveness to weather conditions, all may due to a lack of calcium in the diet.

Frequent rawness of the throat, abscesses, tenderness of the rectum, sluggish blood, mucus in nose and throat, chronic cough, unsteady pulse, curvature of the spine, sunken chest, aching bones, congested nose, bronchitis, tiredness after even slight exertion, cramps of any part of the body, trembling of any part of the body, and the tendency to anemia, all call for calcium.

Calcium must be given in its vital form and that is only possible through the diet. Lime preparations other than from organized food are not successful and frequently prove irritating to the intestinal tract.(2)
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Calcium is found in the gastric juices and plays an important part in the digestion of food. When this element is lacking in the diet, it will soon be deficient in the digestive juices and a vicious circle is quickly established.

There is very little danger of an overabundance of calcium in the food we eat, but there is a likelihood of an insufficiency of sodium, in which case there may be development of such ailments as arthritis, gout, poor hearing, poor eyesight, bony growths, hardening of the veins, calculus, prostatic difficulties, stiff tendons, and mental degeneration.

Vital magnesium as found in food substances is essential for normal bone and teeth building. It is generally found in combination with calcium. The lungs, brain, nerves, and muscles require this element if they are to function properly. Magnesium promotes cell building in nerve tissue and lung substances, as well as helping to maintain the normal pressure of the blood. Vital magnesium has an alkaline reaction and helps to alkalinize the body fluids, causes the tissues to be more elastic and joints more flexible, and prevents constipation and auto-intoxication. Magnesium acts on the glands, serous and mucous membranes, nerves of excretion and organs of secretion and elimination.

Magnesium foods are laxative, nerve-calming, and sleep-producing when selected from the greens. This element counteracts body gases, toxins, acids and ureas. It helps infiltration and osmosis and prevents congestions. It relieves nerve pains and builds white fibers in the brain. It is relaxing to the brain, cooling to the liver, and soothing to the sexual system.

Magnesium is indicated whenever there is a state of putrefaction as indicated by indican and urates in the urine. When there is headache in the lower forehead as from eye-strain, aching in the body, colonitis, constipation and intestinal bloating, sleeplessness, mental excitement and aroused passions, feverishness, undue nervousness, scalding urine, cloudy urine, colic, cramps, spasms or nerve spasms, nervous disorders caused by solitary vice, neuritis, neuralgia, nerve congestion, hysteria, hardening of the liver, palpitation of the heart induced by the nerves, acid ulcers, gastric acidity, headaches after menstruation, nerve strain and nerve shock, fainting spells, great forgetfulness and other mental deficiencies, late and scanty menstruation, pains which can be relieved by pressure, yellow skin and white of eyes, sleepiness after meals, fatigue in arms and legs, nausea at meals due to ulcers or acidity of the stomach, longing for tart foods, dizziness, heaviness in the region of the stomach, itching when warm.

Magnesium in conjunction with calcium, iron, and sulphur takes part in the formation of the albumen of the blood. This element has a vitalizing potency and there is a larger amount of it in the muscular tissues and in the brain and nerves than of calcium. Normal lungs show twice the amount of magnesia than of calcium. Magnesium is a cell-builder of the lung tissue and nervous system especially.

Magnesium is able to exert its nourishing function only in the presence of calcium, and in its absence has an injurious effect, which is the reason why magnesium foods must not be denatured or unbalanced in any manner. This element assists in organizing and eliminating foreign matter and waste in the system, invigorating the excretory organs, maintaining the natural fluidity of the blood and osmotic pressure, and prevents the formation of inimical bacterial in any part of the body.

The magnesium diet must be well balanced with such foods as are abundantly suppled with sodium, otherwise magnesium infiltration may follow their extended use.

Because of its great affinity for oxygen, iron has an important role to play in the organic world and is in close relation to the fundamental processes of the change of matter known as metabolism. Plants and trees take the inorganic (non-vital) iron elements from the soil and carry them to the leaves where they take part in the formation of the chlorophyll granules, the green coloring matter of nature, and with which, in the plant, the vitamins are closely allied. The amount of iron and chlorophyll vary in the different parts of the plant as well as in plants grown in different soils.(3) For instance, the outer green leaves of cabbage contain four times as much iron as the pale inner leaves. Iron serves numerous purposes in plant life and animal bodies. It enables the plant to take up carbon dioxide and nitrogen from the air and synthesize them into organic (vital) matter by means of the chlorophyll and sunlight. The changes that take place in vegetation are of equal importance to man when these become his food. The iron in the chlorophyll forms the hemoglobin of the red corpuscles in animal blood.
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(3) William H. Peterson and C.A. Elvehjum, experimenting in food analysis, found that soil and climatic conditions largely determine, for instance, the iron content of plants. This was shown by the great variation which existed indifferent samples of the same plant. Frequently one sample was found to contain two or three times as much iron as another sample of the same product - 1928 report by Dr. Henry N. Bundesen, President American Public Health Association.
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Iron assists in the process of respiration in all animal bodies. The hemoglobin carries the oxygen through the capillaries to all parts of the body, where the carbon of the ingested food, stored in cells of the tissues, is oxidized and changed into carbonic acid, which is then combined with the alkaline elements of the blood and eliminated through the lungs.

Iron generates a magnetic blood current and an electro-magnetic induction current in the nerve spiral which pass through the walls of the arteries and veins and help build and nourish the tissues.

Iron is absorbed by the duodenum and small intestines and is deposited in the liver, spleen, and bone marrow. The blood normally requires 5 per cent; the liver 1.44; the lungs 0.31; the muscles 0.16; the bile 0.13.

In anemia and low blood pressure, iron is lacking and this must be supplied in a form easily assimilated. Mental confusion, easily induced fatigue, beclouded mind, alternating pains in kidneys and spleen, pregnancy, old age, fibroid tumors, craving for stimulants, especially coffee by women, more so at menstrual periods, irregular menstruation, hacking coughs, easily tired limbs, cold feet, itching of the body, and bloating, all are symptoms calling for more iron.

An unnatural and not readily traceable tightness of any part of the body, such as if there were a band about the head, arms, heart, or chest; dimming eyesight; ringing in ears; hay fever; asthma; colds in the head; anemia; pain in the lungs; irregular and easily disturbed heart action; stiffness of the neck; nervous, restless sleep; abnormal hunger for fresh air; tiredness in the morning; hysteria; acidity of the stomach; uterine weakness; obesity or emaciation; frequent urination; night sweats; reduced activity of the physical functions; lack of endurance; all these are traceable to lack of vital iron.

Non-vital iron - iron obtained from other than the normal food for man should never be prescribed. Such preparations are drugs and cannot be metabolized. They destroy the teeth, ruin the stomach, corrode the arteries, and irritate the kidneys.

Iron unites with phosphorus in its various vital forms and is the basis of man's ambitions, hopes, vitality, and capacity to succeed. Iron supplies the blood vessels with their strength and is aroused to action at the beginning of infections as indicated by fevers, i.e., a rising temperature.

The element phosphorus and its compounds, which the body obtains from food substances, acts in bone, brain, and muscular tissues. Phosphorus aids in the formation of the complex lecithins and nucleo-proteins. It is acid in reaction, and must therefore be neutralized by alkaline elements. Phosphorus is not the cause of thought, but gives the brain the power to think as it gives the nervous system power to function properly, much after the nature of a telephone system. This element is present in the fluids and solid tissues of the body in the form of potassium phosphate, and in the bones as calcium phosphate. Phosphorus is necessary in the nutrition of the nerve centers. It acts upon all nerve matter, brain substance, bone, ganglia, and especially upon the heart and nerves. It helps stimulate the sexual functions and intellectual activity, vitalizing brain and nerves. Phosphorus is also a bone worker, and lack of it permits the bones to soften. It improves nutrition and has a direct effect upon blood production. Without phosphorus the brain would degenerate and intelligence be reduced; it is an agent of life and growth, and without it man could not be an organized being.

Most forms of neuralgia (a form of nerve hunger) call for a diet rich in phosphorus, as do brain softening, nervous debility, impotence and incompetence, lassitude, dislike for exertion, sleeplessness, sleepiness shortly after breakfast, and a craving for stimulants. Hallucinations as part of nervous or digestive disorders, also call for this vital element. Night loss by men, prostration during menstruation, numbness of any limb, twitching of the eyelids, unnatural timidity, inferiority complex, aversion to society or the opposite sex, brain tiredness - too-tired-to-think, aversion to mental work, weak joints, rumbling cough, poor teeth, all these call for a diet rich in phosphorus. Other ailments due to this cause are: bleeding piles, blisters of tongue or mouth, shallow breathing, ageing rapidly without apparent cause, ageing due to worry (which rapidly consumes phosphorus), abnormal thirst, prickling pains in various parts of the body, leucorrhea, chills, albuminuria, diseases of the lungs, inflammation of the ovaries, chest spasms, ulcers, chronic stomach and bowel infections, and various other ailments of the brain, nerves, spinal column, liver, and procreative organs.

The embryos of plants can be developed by cell division only when phosphates are stored up in the seeds in sufficient quantities for the formation and increase of the nuclear substance in the new cells. This would indicate that vital phosphorus is the base of the spirit element, nuclein, and as such must be the basis of life itself. Here we have a vast field for investigation relative to the prolongation of life, through the means of vital spiritualized essences obtainable from food substances.

Vital sulphur, i.e., the sulphur obtained from food substances, is one of the constituents of the hemoglobin of the blood and serves as an oxidizing agent. It enters into the composition of protein in all the tissues and is essential in maintaining the resisting power of the body and has a cleansing and antiseptic potency against the invasion of the system by destructive bacteria.

Vital sulphur helps promote the flow of bile, acts favorably on the liver, regulates the supply of phosphorus to the brain, helps build hair, nails, skin, the cornea of the eyes. It helps to bring impurities to the surface of the body, acts on the blood vessels and nerve tissues. It favors evaporation and heat radiation, warms the skin, is a beautifier of the complexion, increases nerve tension, and is a stimulant to the healthy functioning of the procreative organism of both men and women.

Sulphur foods are called for in all ailments that might be classed under the heading of "erratic' - no term could be more expressive.

These complaints are volcanic emotions, a jerky condition of any part of the body, "nerves," unfounded worry, pains which are neither steady nor localized, weak vocal organs, restlessness, uncontrolled emotions, blood flooding to the brain, morbid mental imagining, freakish or unnatural desires, uncontrolled will power, emotionalism, ravenous appetite, skin eruptions, frigidity, neurotic manifestations, hypersensitiveness, mental, sexual, and nervous ailments which appear without basis, perversions, vulgar imaginations, irritated procreative organism in either sex, deficiency in the cerebro-spinal fluids with resultant ailments, and various ailments of women.

The ingestion of foods abundantly supplied with vital sulphur in all such cases should not be in excess of those rich in phosphorus.

Sulphur unites with sodium and regulates the moisture in the organism. It unites with potassium to regulate the secretion of oil in the skin and hair and to distribute oxygen.

Sulphur unites with hydrogen and prevents intestinal infections by regulating putrefaction.

Foods rich in this element should not be boiled, especially is this true of cabbage. Whenever sulphur foods are interfered with they are gas-creating.

Vital sulphur is essential to immunize us against the invasion of disease, gives the mind the potency to be "inspired," improves the complexion, and is necessary to the hair. Non-vital sulphur, usually known as chemical sulphur, is not metabolized by the system and if it at all enters into the circulation, it is as a foreign substance.

Vital silicon is a large and component part of the pancreatic juices and it is therefore of importance to the digestion of foods. It is combined with fluorine in the enamel of the teeth, and is required in conjunction with sulphur for the health and growth of the hair.

The average American is starved for silicon due to the fact that this element is found mostly in the outer covering of rice and all the grains and in the skins of fruits, and these are generally the discarded parts of these foods.

Silicon is an insulator and helps us to retain the heat and electricity generated within our bodies. Those who quickly chill or feel cold when one ordinarily should be comfortable, lack this element. Besides being a component part of the teeth and hair, it is essential to the nails, membraneous tissues, resistive tissue, ligaments, arterial walls, walls of the throat, lining of the organs, uterine wall and membrane. It is a stimulant to the brain and the sexual organism, increases energy, endurance, vigor, and power, and is a natural antiseptic.

Vital silicon is indicated in sexual weakness and impotence, neurasthenia, varicose veins, brain fatigue, in all ulcerations such as boils, and carbuncles, and like morbid growths, sore throat, sores, especially those of a chronic nature, wounds and cuts if there is suppuration, paralysis, weakened or ulcerated canal walls. Silicon has a favorable action on the ovaries, testes, inguinal and prostate glands.

When the body is disorganized and this disorganization manifests in symptoms such as follow, silicon is indicated as one of the reorganizing agents and should be supplied in the foods prescribed. Alternation sleepiness and sleeplessness, fear of diseases, morbid imagination, tenderness in the region of the spine, nervous dyspepsia, numbness of the skin or tissues for any length of time, perspiration of the head, low body temperature when the average person feels comfortable, mental strain, menstrual colic, gloominess without actual cause, easily induced fatigue, physical debility, St. Vitus' dance, lameness in small of back, phosphates in the urine, involuntary urination, constant itching of the feet, itch on various parts of the body, joints without elasticity, weakness of veins, feeling of pressure on the heart, stiffness of neck without apparent cause, incoordination toward the right side, falling of the hair, failure of sores to heal , blotchy skin, all ailments which create pus, tissue nodules, high specific gravity of the urine, neurosis, unsightly crusts forming on the skin, tunning sores, weak ligaments.

IMPORTANT NOTE: In practically all diseases such as cancer, tumor, and other abnormal growths, in all sores where pus forms, in boils and carbuncles, in fact, in every morbid growth or whenever there is pus formation, the diet should be exceptionally high in silicon and sulphur until all pus formation has ceased, then the foods containing this element are reduced and others of a healing and normalizing nature substituted. Silicon is the mineral surgeon and cleanser.

Vital chlorine, in the form of organic combinations of sodium chloride, is important to the animal economy as it is necessary in the formation of the digestive juices, especially the gastric juices which contain hydrochloric acid. The mineral matter of the blood serum is made up in great part of sodium chloride which helps sustain the generation and conduction of the electric current in the body. The ash of the white of eggs contains this element and when meats are eliminated from the diet, this food is important for the manufacture of hydrochloric acid; milk also contains the organic element and is more easily digested that the white of eggs, which some dietitians consider indigestible by most people. Chlorine is essential in the building of tissues and the making of the digestive juices.

The chlorides, as obtained from the organic (vital) foods, are important in renal secretions and for the elimination of the nitrogenous waste products resulting from metabolism. "Sodium Chloride is a normal constituent of the animal body and this fact has given it special importance in the ideas of the people, and has lent credence to many exaggerated popular notions regarding the necessity of common salt. Whenever the inorganic (rock or sea salt) is ingested, it draws fluids from the tissues rapidly and there results an increased discharge of urine, greatly exceeding the quantity of water consumed. This produces the sensation of thirst which leads to the excessive drinking of liquids and consequent weakening of the kidneys. The inorganic salt also diminishes the secretion of hydrochloric acid (instead of actually making it as generally supposed),(4) decreases the peptonizing power of the stomach and intestines, and disturbs the absorption of sugar.
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Chlorine counteracts the gas formed by sulphur foods, it increases osmosis, and neutralizes a diet too rich in potassium. It lowers fat, sugar, and starch metabolism and is therefore an indication in the reduction of weight by normal means. Chlorine is present in the tissues, fluids, saliva, blood, muscle, and enamels. It is a cleanser of the body and an eliminator of inimical bacteria, pus, excessive fat, and disease. As sodium chloride it promotes protein metabolism.

Lack of this vital element may result in Bright's disease, dropsy, and weakening of the joints. It is indicated in delirium tremens, mania, kidney disease, uremia, convulsion, epilepsy, stomach ailments, paralysis, tetanus, infections, whooping cough, pus formations, chorea, heart disease, catarrh, hay fever, typhoid fever, pneumonia, neuralgia, heat stroke, colic, hysteria, chlorosis, tuberculosis. Those who drink large amounts of liquids must consume chlorine bearing foods.

The chlorine diet is indicated in yellowish skin, swollen ankles, twitching muscles, distention of the stomach, torpidity of the liver, costiveness, pain in the spleen, catarrh of the throat, pyorrhea, retarded digestion of gelatin and albumin, falling of the hair, feeling of emptiness in the stomach.

Its greatest need is indicated by indican, albumin, pus, epithelial cells, the appearance of phosphates or spermatozoa in the urine and the falling of the specific gravity below 1018, interference with the menses without apparent cause, veins are lax, kidneys feel inflamed, joints are sore, feet numb, issues filled with water (dropsy), lungs congested, and the organs feel filled with phlegm, or pus, gall bladder infection, fibroid tumor and secondary stages of infections.

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(*) Editor's Note: This refers only to the fluorine found naturally in food. That added to the water supply has only a detrimental effect on the body and should be avoided at all cost.
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Fluorine is the protector. It is a reliable protector against venereal diseases and such as affect the spinal column, it unites with calcium and is found in teeth, hair, nails, and the elastic tissues.

This element is found in the blood and in the joints. When it is missing, diseases of the teeth, bones, skin, membranes, pericranial and periosteal structures can gain a foothold with ensuing decay, necrosis, softening of bone, ulcers, false-bone growth, hardening, corruption and decomposition. Like the several other elements, fluorine protects against bacteria and infections and has been called an antiferment, a bone chemist, dentist, and beauty specialist. It preserves youthfulness and holds old age at bay. Its action is much like that of silicon. Fluorine is indicated when there is difficulty in thinking or performing mental work; swelling of the eyelids; hallucination that voices are heard, or other hallucinations; when the skin is of a dirty, greasy, clammy, cold, or puffy appearance; when there is self-accusation or condemnation - a general inferiority complex; crumbling bony structure or slowness in the healing of fractures; spongy gums; running saliva; unnaturally heavy appetite; body odors like decay, itch after perspiration; trouble with the finger nails; falling eyelashes or hair; bunions; yellow pus vesicles; prostration from hard work or heat; sudden blindness from stooping; decayed taste in the mouth; slight deafness in the morning; unnatural or putrid odor from the feet; easy bleeding of the gums; disorderly mind and habits; great distrust of everyone without reason; biliousness when using milk, ability to sleep but with lack of recuperation; distrust in established authority without reason, congestion of the brain, chronic catarrh, hallucination after (nightmare); sensual thoughts; moroseness of disposition; neurasthenia; collection and localization of pus in brain, bone, or blood.

SPECIAL NOTE: The yolk of eggs, milk from goats and cows, cheese and whey and all milk products are rich in this vital element, but cooking or heating destroys it through liberation and evaporation.

There is less than half an ounce of this vital element in the human body, nevertheless it is of great importance. This element resembles iron both in its physical and chemical properties, is contained in the red corpuscles and has a decided influence on the vegetative functions of the glands, enabling them to keep the quantity of their secretions normal.

Vital manganese is a nerve and brain food, is essential to the membranes of the various organs, and is the substance in the body which enables the fibers of the brain to meet so that we can think connectively and constructively. When there is a deficiency of this element there is confusion in the mind, speech is incoherent, action is erratic and these is great forgetfulness - all these symptoms in a person are liable to cause him to be adjudged as suffering from mental illness when in fact it is nothing more or less than manganese starvation.

Manganese might correctly be termed a mental salt and as important as phosphorus in the functioning of the mind. It has the ability to make one intellectual and emotional to a normal degree and to help demonstrate the power of the mind.

Vital manganese is indicated in such conditions as ailments that become worse at night than during the day, and in which the presence of pain appears at one place for a long time; when the person, for apparently no reason, is averse to being touched; when perspiration is profuse and irritating; foggy weather is unendurable; mental activity and the senses are dulled by being in the open air; rushing noises in the ears; fingers and toes become raw between one another or exude a burning liquid; knees are weak with nerve tension and twisting of the legs; a sound as of bubbling in the heart; bloody discharges from some part of the body; urine becomes clay-like after standing; headache from various activities; intestinal cramps after eating or abdominal cramps after drinking cold drinks; nodes at root of tongue; contraction of the legs during menstruation; breasts hard; cracking of the joints; dislike for hot or cold moisture; pain in the bones; nightmare.

Vital iodine is truly an element as it is non-mineral - cannot even be called an organic mineral, and is neutral in its reaction. It therefore differs wholly from the organic mineral elements with which it is catalogued.

Iodine is a natural stimulant to the nutritive processes of the bodily functions and the circulatory system; it holds at least some of the glands in balance and in this manner maintains mental equilibrium. Only the iodine obtained from food can be metabolized by the system and incorporated in the cellular structure.

This vital element is actively present in the thyroid gland and is essential in the formation of an active iodine compound called thyrosin which regulates some of the metabolic functions of the organism and maintains a balance. A lack of iodine prevents the formation of thyrosin and may cause an enlargement of the thyroid gland - goitre.

Iodine has in late years come to be accepted as a protector of the brain and nervous system because it neutralizes toxins and also in some manner helps phosphorus to organize the nervous system successfully.

This vital element helps in the assimilation of calcium, silicon, fluorine, and chlorine, mineral elements required by the blood, increases oxidation and elimination of impurities, improves mental activity as a result of better brain functioning, protects the nervous system against shock by increasing the activity of the thyroid gland.(5)
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(5) A discovery made by members of the International Research and Experimental Bureau.
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The secretions of the thyroid neutralize albuminous toxins in the blood so that these cannot affect the brain. A deficiency of this element is detrimental to bone, brain, and nervous system as it leaves these without protection. Iodine influences teeth and bone metabolism, the alkalinization of the saliva, the oxidation of fat for the brain, the excretions of decomposed fluids from the brain, the rate of the pulse, the demand for oxygen in the brain, the excretion of carbon dioxide from the brain and goitre.

Iodine is called for by these symptoms: goitre, chronically swollen throat, flabby flesh, bulky abdomen, under-development in children of school age with awkwardness and backwardness in their studies, slowness in walking in children, running saliva, short labored breathing, turbid urine with earthy sediment, softening of bone, throbbing arteries, simple-mindedness and idiocy in children, numb fingers, swollen feet, occasional prostration, alternating hunger for food and aversion to it, smarting eyes, unreasonable fears, pressure in the chest, nervous tremors, uncalled for drowsiness, continual tiredness congestion in the base of the brain, trouble with the tonsils, formation of pus, catarrh, and phlegm, screaming in sleep, stupor, heart and lung affections, bronchitis, poor coordination, myxoedema. Iodine is an important agent in the treatment of anemia, tuberculosis and various skin diseases. It should be combined with arsenic as obtained from the yolk of eggs and turnip leaves.

Vital arsenic is found in the body in minute quantities only but has an important function to perform. It is a constituent of the living cells and found in some of the tissues.(6) It is likewise found in the epidermis, the hair, nails, thyroid gland, and brain in conjunction with iodine, and in the breast. Arsenic has a chemical affinity for phosphorus and harmonizes with iodine.
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(6) Drs. Bertrand and Gautier, Paris.
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This element is found principally in eggs, especially in the yolk, and in turnip leaves. Like sulphur, it helps to purify the skin, and is indicated in some cases of tuberculosis and anemia, acting as a tonic.

Found in the composition of many vegetables and in animal tissues. It aids in the prevention of the formation of gas during the digestion of food thus enhancing the process.

Frequently, possibly always, a component part of iodine, acting as a balance to the activity of that element.

Found in vegetables and animal tissues in minute quantities. Its function is similar to magnesium and it is generally found in conjunction with it.

This element is in excessive quantities in corn raised in soil deficient in the various minerals required for its normal growth and development. When taken into the system in slightly excessive quantities it interferes with normal metabolism, sets up morbidity, and is strongly suspected of causing abnormal growths and cancerous conditions. It is an element in foods, especially corn, that should be given the closest investigation.
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