On the basis of estimates of nutrient intake from food (excluding fortification and supplementation), more than 5 billion people do not consume enough iodine (68% of the global population), vitamin E (67%), and calcium (66%). More than 4 billion people do not consume enough iron (65%), riboflavin (55%), folate (54%), and vitamin C (53%). Within the same country and age groups, estimated inadequate intakes were higher for women than for men for iodine, vitamin B12, iron, and selenium and higher for men than for women for magnesium, vitamin B6, zinc, vitamin C, vitamin A, thiamin, and niacin.

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Its an ongoing warning of soil (topsoil) depletion of microbes, which will affect the nutrients in the food we and all living beings eat. And we have industrial farming which do not bring back enough organic content to make up for what they remove in food production and that lead to depletion. Industrial animal farming feed the animals corn and other substances but not grass, which lead to nutrient depletion in the meat we eat.
We basically eat what the food we eat have eaten. Mineral imbalance or depletion in our bodies may be the main reason for the expression of most diseases and illnesses, its a ticking health bomb. Since our body is so good at adapting, making "workarounds" to keep our body running, years on years, we don't notice these things. Acute happening we notice, but seldom the long dragged out consequence.
I wish the medical community would focus a lot, a lot more on nutrition and minerals as a healing mechanism and as a preventative "medicine".

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