If your food comes from truly organic farms, that is they make their own compost, and put everything back into the soil, etc., then there will be minerals in the plants. As for beef, it surprises me you should ask that if you read articles on this site regularly: it's grass-fed beef every time! Grain-fed is too high in omega 6, for a start. Oysters: Dr Mercola recommends banning all shellfish from our diet. Use the search engine in this site for questions, you pick up a lot of information that way.

Foxtroter:

No truer words have ever been written, or spoken.  We as people need to be more proactive concerning our health.  We need to read research get a first hand understanding for our selves and not take the words of others not for something so important as our health.  Our lives.

nldavis, what a great point you make! Locked out of the house? As kids, I don't recall being locked out, but we were SENT outside to play, even on the coldest winter day. And in summer we stayed out till the streetlights came on. Most of the time our parents had no idea where we were.

"Quality time"? I think that must have been what our parents called the time after all us kids were in bed at night! Parents did grown-up things and kids did childish things. No adults supervised our baseball games or any other aspect of our after-school and summer lives. We got in trouble, we learned from our mistakes, we rolled in the dirt and ate green tomatoes and raw corn-on-the-cob and were incredibly healthy. Are those days gone forever?

Zicam is a patented zinc product so patenting difficulty is not always a motivation.