"Metabolic, psychological, physical or environmental stress
creates marked increase in the amounts of essential nutrients needed
for maximum metabolic efficiency and stability...
Serious attention should be paid to the known role of
nutrition in enabling the body's own defenses to function effectively
against invading micro-organisms ... there is a widespread ignorance,
confusion and controversy among Americans concerning the relationship of
nutrition to health ...
(At the same time) there has been a significant change in
the content and nutrient value of the American diet as of 1983 ... low
nutrient-density foods not only deprive the human organism of essential
requirements but crowd out other nutritious foods ... "empty calories"
in the form of sugar and refined carbohydrates consume high levels of
essential nutrients during their metabolism by the body ... the
refortification of foods after they have been altered still leaves them
seriously depleted of nutrients ...
Even when one may eat an adequate diet, nutrients are not
necessarily absorbed properly by the body and hence made available to
the cells ... the failure to have essential nutrients present on a
twenty four hour basis for cellular metabolism means that necessary
metabolic functions do not take place or take place at an inadequate
level ... rarely, if ever, is a deficiency disease due to a single
nutrient ...
The total number afflicted by chronic disease has
increased markedly, and the age of onset has decreased ... if this
tendency continues to accelerate at its present rate for another 20
years, American society will face serious impairment of its economic,
political, social, religious, educational and cultural vitality.
Having examined this physical, mental and social trend
for over 20 years, we have come to the conclusion that the major cause
of this general phenomenon lies in what the majority of individuals and
families consume daily through their present dietary practice ...
Routine approach to patient care must include their present
dietary assessment of the nutritional status of the patient. To the
extent feasible, the goal should be to nutritionally restore the patient
before attempting to diagnose and prescribe therapy in the convention
fields of chronic disease, whether physical or mental. Depending on
biochemical individuality, nutritional restoration may at times include
relatively high concentrations of specific vitamins."