•
Sources:
1- U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM),
National Institutes of Health.
2.
CDC-OC: CDC Office of Communication; NCHS: National Center for
Health Statistics (CDC)
3.
http://www.doctorwallach.com/depletion.html
4.
www.healthierus.gov/dietaryguidelines.
5.
I draw my conclusions on my aneurysm as well as many others being
the result of copper deficiency from the following research obtained
from The National Library of Medicine; National Institutes of
Health http://www.nlm.nih.gov/
• Kivirikko K
& Peltonen L. Abnormalities in copper metabolism & disturbances
in the synthesis of collagen & elastin. Med. Biol. 60:45-48,
1982.
• Klevay LM, et al. Effects of a
diet low in copper on a healthy man. Clinical Research. 28:758,
1980.
• Lewis AJ. The role of copper in
inflammatory disorders. Agents & Actions. 15(5-6):513-9, 1984.
• Milanino R. Conforti A. Franco
L. Marrella M. Velo G. Copper & inflammation--a possible rationale
for the pharmacological manipulation of inflammatory disorders.
Agents & Actions. 16(6):504-13, 1985.
• Solomons NW. Biochemical, metabolic,
& clinical role of copper in human nutrition. J. Am. Coll.
Nutr. 4:83-105, 1985.
• Williams DM. Copper deficiency
in humans. Seminars in Hematology. 20:118-128, 1983.
• Collagen types & matrix protein
content in human abdominal aortic aneurysms.
• Rizzo RJ, McCarthy WJ, Dixit SN,
Lilly MP, Shively VP, Flinn WR, Yao JS.
Department of Surgery, Northwestern University Medical School,
Chicago, IL 60611.
Deficiencies of total collagen, type III collagen, & elastin
have been proposed to explain aneurysm formation.
• Decreased hepatic copper levels.
A possible chemical marker for the pathogenesis of aortic aneurysms
in man.
Tilson MD.
• The spontaneously aneurysm-prone
Blotchy mouse has a mutation on the X chromosome resulting in
low hepatic copper levels; & copper is an essential cofactor
for lysyl oxidase, which catalyzes reactions leading to the cross-linking
of collagen & elastin. Population characteristics & family
histories of patients with aneurysms suggest that aneurysmal disease
may also be sex linked in man. Hepatic copper levels were determined
in 13 patients who died with abdominal aortic aneurysms &
in 13 control patients selected on the criterion of severe atherosclerotic
occlusive disease of the abdominal aorta. Excluding two patients
with severe liver disease, the tissue copper level in the patients
with aneurysms was only 26% of the control level. The results
suggest that additional studies of the biologic markers for aneurysm
formation in the Blotchy mouse should be carried out prospectively
in human subjects.
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There is also this data in support of
my theory:
• In 1926, Dr. William A. Albrecht,
the head of the agricultural department at the University of Missouri,
tested 100 bushels of Kansas wheat for mineral content.
• In 1968, 42 years later, he tested
wheat from the same farm. He found that to get the same amount of
mineral content, it took 1000 bushels.
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• In 1936 the United States Senate
issued Document 264 relating to proper food mineral balances. Fruits,
vegetables & grains now no longer contain levels of certain
minerals & we are mineral starved no matter how much of them
we consume.
• Soils are also polluted by excess
phosphorus & nitrites from useless fertilizers as farmers try
to get as much use from the same soil to maximize profits.
• Percentage of Mineral Depletion
From Soil During The Past 100 Years, by Continent:
North America - 85%
South America - 76%
Asia - 76%
Africa - 74%
Europe - 72%
Australia - 55%
• While nearly all
farmers understand the necessity to maintain the optimal level of
organic material & humus in their fields to sustain tonnage
production, very few realize the slow insidious leaching & depletion
of the life giving minerals (mining) from their land - after all
we pay them for tons & bushels, not for an analysis of minimal
levels of various minerals in each carrot, potato, broccoli, or
bushel of wheat or rice! This belief is summed up in a statement
by a professor of soils from Iowa State College of Agriculture Henry
Cantwell Wallace (George Washington Carver's teacher & editor
of the Wallace's Farmer ),
"Nations endure only as long as their topsoil."
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http://www.alliance-natural-health.org/index.cfm?action=news&ID=71
• Declining minerals in our food...&
fewer minerals in our supplements?
David Thomas of Mineral Resources International (UK), a supporter
of ANH, reveals his findings on declining mineral content of foods.
See ANH comment which follows.
It’s not the fruit it used to be. . .
The Sunday Times (U.K.)
8 February 2004
Jonathan Leake, Environment Editor
Modern farming methods & plant breeding are stripping produce
of many of the nutrients essential for human health.
Over the past 60 years the levels of iron, magnesium & other
minerals important for the body’s biochemical balance have
declined by between a quarter & three-quarters in fruit &
vegetables. The proportion of sugar has doubled in fruit such as
apples & pears over the same period — partly to satisfy
modern tastes.
The study comes amid increasing government concern at the degradation
of the British diet & a surge in nutrition- related diseases
such as obesity & diabetes, which some fear will overwhelm the
Britain’s National Health Service.
“What we found is that since 1940 the minerals & other
nutrients that help to make fruit & vegetables good for you
have been in startling decline,” said David Thomas, the author
of the paper.
He investigated how amounts of essential minerals such as iron,
magnesium, potassium & copper had changed in 64 fruits &
vegetables — & found that in almost every case they had
fallen.
His research compared modern data with records taken from 1940,
when government scientists began systematically analysing hundreds
of foodstuffs, initially to work out the best diets for people with
nutrition-related diseases such as diabetes.
It showed that, on average, vegetables had lost about half of their
sodium & calcium content, a quarter of their iron & 76%
of their copper content. The nutrient levels of fruits had also
declined significantly with iron, copper & zinc all falling
by up to 27%.
Researchers have long suspected that dramatic changes in agriculture
over the past 60 years could be changing the quality of the produce.
However, the short-term benefits for farmers such as greater productivity,
consistent quality & a wider range of varieties meant that these
concerns attracted little attention.
Thomas, a mineralogist & fellow of the Geological Society, believed
that the problem could be more serious because many essential nutrients
such as selenium & molybdenum were not measured until quite
recently.
His findings are supported by a study in the British Food Journal
by Anne-Marie Mayer, a nutrition researcher at Cornell University,
who found similar changes in the nutritional content of 20 fruits
& 20 vegetables grown in Britain between the late 1930s &
the 1990s.
“There were significant reductions in the levels of calcium,
magnesium, copper & sodium in vegetables & in magnesium,
iron, copper & potassium in fruits,” Mayer said.
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