"BRD" wrote in message
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The only scientific studies that I've seen that support this idea
relate
more to the plants' responses to insects and (possibly) disease
organisms. Apparently some of the phytochemicals that are beneficial
to us are produced to repel or otherwise thwart, repel, or otherwise
ward off parasitic organisms. In these studies, the "organically
grown"
plants were more subject to direct attack than the plants that were
protected by various pesticides; the latter plants had no need to
produce
some nutritionally beneficial phytochemicals. Sorry I don't have the
references readily available...

While I haven't done an extensive search, I don't know of any
scientically
valid studies that show that nutrient densities are enhanced in
organically
enriched soil. If someone knows of some (or studies that counter this
hypothesis), please post the references!

-frank
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Despite the best efforts of the fledgling pharmaceuticals and medical
'science' in general to belittle the problems, by the nineteen thirties
it had become obvious to most Americans that something was seriously
amiss with their soils, with their crops, and with their rapidly
deteriorating personal health. During the 2nd Session of the 74th
Congress in 1936, the United States Senate published Document #264, which
really laid the problems facing American nutrition on the line. Verbatim
extracts from Document 264 are provided at the bottom of this page, but
for the specific purposes of this report, here are the three most
important paragraphs.
"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."
"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."
So sixty-eight years ago, the American Government knew full
well the problems facing the people, but the stuffed-shirt medical
fraternity did absolutely nothing to help. In fact, driven ever onwards
by the extravagant fiscal needs of pharmaceutical shareholders, medical
'science' and its subordinate doctors stood reality on its ear, and
proceeded to steadily undermine what little good health the general
community had left.

Surely there's something a little more recent.



--
BRD