Lifestyle, minerals and health

This paper proposes that most poor health and behavioral conditions are rel ated to a deficiency of essential minerals or an excess of toxic ones. Clie nts requesting a hair mineral analysis were required to complete a question naire including lifestyle, health status and diet. Most prevalent health co nditions in order of frequency were: depression, allergies, low back pain, arthritis, cardiovascular disease and poor digestion. Most deficient minera ls were chromium, magnesium, zinc and calcium. Aluminum was the most freque nt toxic mineral. it is proposed that such mineral abnormalities were cause d by an over consumption of nutrient-poor, highly processed foods such as w hite flour, sugar and harmful fats. Such a diet promotes poor lifestyles su ch as smoking, drug abuse, alcoholism and criminal activity. Poor diets and dangerous lifestyles precedes the development of most prevalent diseases. The most common one is cardiovascular disease which increased at an alarmin g rate in the last century. (C) 2001 Harcourt Publishers Ltd.