What are Essential Trace Minerals and why do we need them?

According to the late health and nutrition researcher, Dr. Linus Pauling, “you can trace every ailment, every sickness and every disease to an Organic Trace Mineral deficiency.” Dr. Pauling was a much-acclaimed and heralded leader in researching disease and received 2 Nobel Prizes in his lifetime.

Broken-down, by category, are the Macro-minerals, Essential Trace Minerals, Potentially-essential Trace Minerals, and Toxic Minerals and Heavy Metals.

The Macro minerals:

1. Calcium Chloride Magnesium Phosphorus
2. Potassium Silicon Sodium Sulfur
3. The Essential Trace Minerals
4. Chromiun Cobalt Copper
5. Iodine Iron Manganese
6. Molybdenum Selenium Zinc
7. Potentially-essential Trace Minerals
8. Boron Fluoride Germanium
9. Lithium Nickel Rubidium
10. Strontium Tin Vanadium
11. Toxic Minerals and Heavy Metals
12. Aluminum Arsenic Cadmium Lead
13. Mercury Antimony Barium Beryllium
14. Bismuth Bromine Thallium Uranium

What are Organic Trace Minerals and why do we need them?

According to the late health and nutrition researcher, Dr. Linus Pauling, “you can trace every ailment, every sickness and every disease to an Organic Trace Mineral deficiency.” Dr. Pauling was a much-acclaimed and heralded leader in researching disease and received 2 Nobel Prizes in his lifetime.

Organic Trace Minerals are needed by the human body for optimum health. Organic Trace Minerals help the body create “balance” – also known as "homeostasis."

Because of the way we grow most of our food, and with all the fertilizers, pesticides, and non-organic farming methods, soil depletion has caused a loss of the organic trace minerals that used to be in our foods that were grown on the farm. All of the non-organic chemical fertilizers applied on the crops being grown in today's "factory farms" kill the microorganisms in the soil that used to produce Organic Trace Minerals. When our farmer's soils are destroyed by the chemical fertilizers that are so widely used in the production of our crops that are grown on the "factory farms," the "natural" organic humus soils are destroyed, and the plants/crops grown in that soil are missing the "natural" organic trace minerals. This was the finding over70 years ago by Dr. Northern in 1936, and as documented in the U.S. Senate Document 264.

Without Organic Trace Minerals, the body cannot utilize amino acids, fats and vitamins properly. Organic Trace Minerals are absolutely necessary and required by every cell, organ, gland, muscle and vital life functions in the human body. Without Organic Trace Minerals, optimum health cannot be achieved, and diseases and accelerated oxidation occurs in the body.

Organic Trace Minerals are “the gift of life” and cellular nutrition and function becomes impossible without all of the essential Organic Trace Minerals.

Verbatim Unabridged extracts from the 74th Congress 2nd Session in 1936 about the Importance of Organic Trace Minerals:

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

"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 to hold them."

"The truth is that our foods vary enormously in value, and some of them aren't worth eating as food. Our physical well-being is more directly dependent upon the minerals we take into our systems than upon calories or vitamins or upon the precise proportions of starch, protein or carbohydrates we consume."

"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. Nevertheless, 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 today can eat enough fruits and vegetables to supply his stomach with the mineral salts he requires for perfect health, because his stomach isn't big enough to hold them! And we are turning into big stomachs."

"No longer does a balanced and fully nourishing diet consist merely of so many calories or certain vitamins or fixed proportion of starches, proteins and carbohydrates. We know that our diets must contain in addition something like a score of minerals salts."

"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 lives."

"We know that vitamins are complex chemical substances which are indispensable to nutrition, and that each of them is of importance for normal function of some special structure in the body. Disorder and disease result from any vitamin deficiency. It is not commonly realized, however, that vitamins control the body's appropriation of minerals, and in the absence of minerals they have no function to perform. Lacking vitamins, the system can make some use of minerals, but lacking minerals, vitamins are useless."

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

"This discovery is one of the latest and most important contributions of science to the problem of human health."

What is "Organic For Life™"

"Organic for Life™" is our company's name for our new line of organic products.

What is the National Organic Program?

The National Organic Program is a set of legal standards and regulations developed and enforced by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) that define farming, production and certification practices for foods bearing the organic label and sold in the United States.

What are the National Organic Standards and National Organic Standards Board (NOSB)?

The National Organic Standards are the standards for the organic industry as promulgated and set forth by the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB).

The National Organic Standards Board is a 15-member, non-governmental, federal advisory committee created by the Secretary of Agriculture under the Organic Food Production Act ("OFPA") and the Federal Advisory Committee Act ("FACA"). By law the NOSB's makeup is a diverse constituency representing organic farming operations (4 people), organic handling operations (2), retail establishments with significant trade in organic product (1), experts in environmental protection and resource conservation(3), public interest or consumer interest groups (3), scientific experts in toxicology, ecology or biochemistry(1) and an organic certifying agent (1).

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The USDA appoints all National Organic Standards Board members, although the public is allowed to make recommendations for appointments. National Organic Standards Board members serve staggered five-year terms.

In general, the National Organic Standards Board is designed to be a public voice concerning the regulation of organic food. It is responsible for advising the Secretary of Agriculture on implementing our national organic food laws. Board is responsible for evaluating substances for inclusion on the National List of allowed (or prohibited) synthetic substances.

nfortunately, in the first proposed national organic rule the USDA ignored most of the National Organic Standards Board's recommendations. For example, the proposed rule allowed for genetically engineered foods even though the National Organic Standards Board specifically stated that they should not be allowed in organic.

The National Organic Standards Board meets between two to four times a year to develop recommendations on a number of issues concerning organic food. The meetings are open to the public and the Board often publishes working papers that are available for public comment. Please review the National Organic Standards Board's website at: http://www.ams.usda.gov/nop/nosbinfo.htm for more information.