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Deficiency Diseases and Good Nutrition
Introduction
That car... Imagine getting yourself a shiny, new, souped up car. Without a care in the world, all you do is drive it. Sure, you buy gas for it but you don't do anything else. You don't check the oil, antifreeze, power steering fluid, transmission fluid, brake fluid, spark plugs, tire wear or any of the other checks that would keep it operating correctly. At first it's a 'going machine,' and you drive it hard. You scream up and down the mountain passes sliding around the corners. You tear up and down the freeways with your fuzz buster on high. In short, you have a great time - for a while. But sooner or later, and it will probably be two or three years down the road if you don't run into something first, the car is going to stop performing the way it should. Probably the first thing to go will be the engine because your old worn out oil won't lubricate any longer. The pistons, cylinders, rings and bearings will wear past operational limits because of the gritty oil. Or, maybe an overly worn tire might blow on one of those trips flying down the freeway. Maybe the engine will overheat because the antifreeze runs low. Whatever the cause, the life of the car will only be a small percentage of what it was designed to be. Whether it's ignorance or willful neglect the results will be the same.

Most people can comprehend this when talking about a car, but it goes right over the tops of their heads when it concerns their own bodies. Compared to the car, our bodies are millions of times more complicated with thousands of chemicals and compounds that must work together in perfect balance and harmony for 'this machine' to operate correctly. Like the person doing no more than putting gas in a car; many people don't do much better than fill their bodies with empty calories. It takes much more than this to keep them operating correctly. Usually, missing even one essential nutrient prevents several other nutrients that are present from doing their jobs. It's a complicated process where everything hinges on everything else.

We can drive a new car into the ground every two or three years then turn around and get a new one. But when this body's gone, that's it. Often, we do things to make 'our engines run on three cylinders,' then we have to live with it for the rest of our lives. When we are young, we can treat our bodies badly and they will continue to work 'as advertised' for a while, but sooner or later it will catch up with us. We owe it to ourselves to learn what we can to keep our bodys working well as long as possible.

Alisha
 
Alisha, who is presently off to college, worked up these pages over the summer of 1999. She is studying this subject at college. This summer she put in a huge amount of effort researching this information, then writing it in such a way that most everyone should be able to understand it. We hope these pages will assist you in making this body of yours - the most fantastic of all machines - run the way God intended it to. Things don't always have to be the way they are. There is a cause and effect to everything in life which includes the relationship between our health and how we take care ourselves.

I'm sure Alisha hopes these pages will be of benefit to you in your lives. The rest of us at Walton Feed share the same feelings.

Al

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