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Ha! great minds... I was just going to post that excerpt...but as my clip includes another piece of the text LL liked to,
I'll just snip that bit. I thought the co-enzyme part was very interesting and worth considering, when it comes to digestive issues...lots of times people have talked about eating "good food" like leafy greens and not beign able to figure out whay their health doesn'rt reflect that...

One of the health rules that Dr. Carey Reams taught was that:

"All disease is the result of a mineral deficiency."

This rule clearly shows why it is so important to eat foods with high mineral density. One of the most important nutrients that increases with high brix readings is calcium. According to Dr. Reams calcium levels in produce rise and fall proportionately with the brix levels. This has been independently confirmed by Bob Pike in his research on tissue testing. Disorders and degenerative diseases resulting from a calcium deficiency could fill several books.

In addition to increased calcium levels, high brix foods also supply more trace minerals such as copper, iron, and manganese. Trace minerals function as co-enzymes in the digestive process. Co-enzymes work with enzymes as activators of those enzymes. These trace minerals have higher atomic weights. Due to greater mineral density and the inclusion of heavier trace minerals high brix foods weigh more per unit than lower quality produce.

can we really afford not to own a refractometer? (It's next on the list for me)