"It is about that, but I read him being more about getting ALL needed minerals and nutrition from foods, which in todays world, is nearly impossible without a disciplined conscious effort."
Agreed. But a significant issue is that he paints everything in absolutes. 'If you're sick it's [always] your own fault for making the wrong decisions.' When in reality, there are plenty of instances where people have an excellent and balanced diet, get exercise, and essentially do all the right things even growing their own food, and they *still* get sick. Granted, if you follow sound dietary guidelines and general common sense health decisions like the kind ML dispenses one's odds of achieving and maintaining good health will IMPROVE, but there are no guarantees. Thus ML, being rather simple himself, tends to have excessively simplistic views.