I am not MH, but I feel that your friend is full of crap. If eating too many fruits and vegs depletes the body of minerals, where does your friend think we should be getting our minerals from?

I doubt any of your friends have done as much research on diet and health as you have. Are they Master Herbalists? None of my friends have spent as many years on the topic as me, so I never take advice from them.

Acid-producing substances deplete the body of minerals. Minerals are lost because they are used to maintain blood pH. If the blood pH doesn't rise, minerals will not be depleted.

The only way you are going to eat too many fruits is if you eat so much that your stomache explodes.

if your friend was not able to back up his/her so called 'fact', then I'd doubt it is of much truth (unless he was thinking of cruciferous vegetables and the goitrogens (sp?) in them that block iodine assimilation?)

I've kind of just learnt to let these kinds of things people say (who haven't spent as much as an hour of their life reading about health) just slip in one ear and slip out the other one just as quickly... I'll give them an 'oh, really?' just to give them that benefit of a doubt, and I'll even research it if it sounds like it could be true or whatever. But most of the time, in my mind I'm just shaking my head and saying 'if only you knew...'

often times I hold back on telling people what I'VE read/heard/seen because I know the type of reaction I'll get from the sheeple, so I save myself the embarassment.

This is beyond ludicrous - it's completely ridiculas. Tell him to use pure logic - what do the cows, horses, oxen, gorillas live on? I don't think they are lacking in muscles, so, logic would say they must be getting plenty of protein.

MH and all,
HAY

A friend recently warned me about eating 2 many fruits and vegetables - says that he read this can deplete the body of minerals ??

This sounds ludicrous to me... ??
THEN WHY ENTERTAIN SUCH FOOLISH TALK!

I asked him to substantiate the claim.... he could not..

Does this hold any water at all ??

Perhaps something to do with cooking.. or not eating a variety ??
READ BOOK I FOR THE UMPTENTH TIME AND LEARN FOR YOUR SELF, THEN YOU CAN COUNTER THESE LOST SOULS SEEKING TO HARM THOSE THEY STUMBLE ON IN LIFE.

MH

Russ.