"We know that vitamins are complex chemical substances which are indispensable to nutrition and that each of them is of importance for the normal function of some special structure in the body.

"It is not commonly realized that vitamins control the bodys appropriation of minerals, and in the absence of minerals they have no function to perform. 99% of the American people are deficient in minerals, and a marked deficiency in any one of the more important minerals actually results in disease."

"Most of us today are suffering from certain dangerous diet deficiencies which cannot be remedied until the depleted soils from which our food come are brought into proper mineral balance. The alarming fact is that the foods - fruits, vegetables and grain, now being raised on millions of acres of land that no longer contain enough of certain needed minerals, are starving us - no matter how much of them we eat!"