Below is an excerpt from Part One of

The 2004 Multi-Diet

by Anderson A. Anonymous, M.D., Ph.D.

In my opinion, deficiencies of one or more of these seven macrominerals have probably destroyed more diets than any other vital factor except protein itself. (See The Protein Factor below.) It is therefore vital that you learn to manage macrominerals properly in order to diet successfully. In fact, the importance of correctly managing the macrominerals is so critical to successful dieting (and so often ignored) that I will now hammer the point shamelessly.:) (If you're already convinced, just skip to the next section.)

Many people assume that just eating a few daily servings of vegetables will automatically give them all the minerals they need. This is not true. In fact, it's not even close! According to the USDA Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, one pound (1/2 kg) of mixed vegetables (cooked)---which is considerably more vegetables than many people eat in a day---gives you only the following relatively small total amounts of the macrominerals.

You can see from this table that even eating a full pound of vegetables leaves you with far less than the recommended daily amounts of these macrominerals. (So even though your mother was absolutely right when she said eating your vegetables is good for you, by itself it's still not good enough.:)) Therefore you will need to do more than this (or else your body will "wake The Beast" to do it for you.) In other words, some form of supplementation of macrominerals is needed if you expect to succeed in staying on your diet long enough to lose much weight.

However, to be safe, macromineral supplementation must be done correctly.