The McCarrison Society - NL 40/1: Special Generating Healthy Brains Edition

NL 40/1: Special Generating Healthy Brains Edition

Article Index
NL 40/1: Special Generating Healthy Brains Edition
Chairman's comments
GHB Special Report On The McCarrison Society
GHB:Report by Conference Organiser Rev Simon House, MA
GHB: Preconception to late adolescence:
GHB: From past to present: evolution and epigenetics
GHB: CLEAVE LECTURE Nutrition, the brain and mental ill health
GHB: Our changing diet; deficits and disorders
GHB: Genomic imprinting for brain development and behaviour
GHB: 'Brainfoods': Modulating brain structure and function
GHB: The effects of maternal anxiety or stress during pregnancy
GHB: Cornerstones in the Psychobiological Development of Mankind:
GHB: A psycho-soma integration perspective
GHB: 'New Parenting', psychotherapy, prenatal
GHB: Attention deficit disorders
GHB: Priorities in Research Funding
GHB:Into the future; avoiding the cost of folly
GHB: References
News
Mind What You Eat
McCarrison meeting with Sustain
Future Events

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GHB: Our changing diet; deficits and disorders – Mineral depletion - mineral deficiencies - and their fall out

David Thomas DC: nutritionist and chiropractor – began with a powerful expression of amazement that our nation could have overlooked so much nutritional evidence in relation to health for so long, only to be brought up short by a young celebrity chef of integrity and passion, Jamie Oliver. Dr. Thomas presented lengthy research lists specifically relating diseases to mineral deficits. For brevity I give this in the form of a single table, but we hope to publish the complete lists in Nutrition and Health.

Table 1

The importance of minerals

Physiologically it would be very difficult to underestimate the importance of minerals and trace elements. They often act as the catalyst for the other nutrients the body uses to develop and maintain good health.

Magnesium for instance is known to be required to be present in the metabolic pathway of 300 enzyme reactions whilst zinc is required in 200 enzyme reactions. The deterioration in the mineral content of the 64 foods that could be traced over the 51-year period between 1940 and 1991, therefore, should be considered as alarming.

Not only are these foods made from raw materials that contain between 16% and 76% less of essential minerals than 60 years ago, but they often also contain residues of herbicides, fungicides, pesticides, antibiotics and hormones.

Dr. Stephen Davis had described our predisposition as comprising psychological, genetic and nutritional. Any changes in environment required our adaptation, in which we either succeeded or reached a condition subject to any number of diseases with their various symptoms. Then come treatments for disease, becoming more and more drastic as it progresses. So we need to look for the fundamental causes of disease in our environment food production methods and tackle these, rather than let disease happen and then hunt for the magic bullet. Understand that we are part of the environment, not separate from it. Recently a Russian scientist had repeated the discovery of McCarrison in the 1930s that poor food is the quickest way to animal ill health.

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