Soil and Your Health: Healthy Soil Is Vital to Your Health

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Basic Health Publications, Incorporated, 2004 M02 12 - 130 pages
The quality of your food depends on the quality of the soil in which it is grown. Is organically produced food superior to conventionally grown food? How do earthworms and trace minerals benefit soil, and the food and feed grown on it? How do intentionally applied fertilizers, pesticides, and sludge, as well as inadvertent contaminants, affect soil? This book is important reading for understanding how quality soil relates to good health.

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About the author (2004)

Beatrice Josephine Trum Hunter was born in Brooklyn, New York on December 16, 1918. She received a bachelor's degree in English literature from Brooklyn College in 1940. She learned to read Braille while accompanying a blind student on the subway to and from campus and wanted to teach visually impaired students. She studied at the Perkins School for the Blind and received a master's degree from Teachers College at Columbia University. She taught in New Jersey and New York City schools until she and her husband moved to New Hampshire in 1955. She wrote several books including The Natural Foods Cookbook, Gardening Without Poisons, and Our Toxic Legacy: How Lead, Mercury, Arsenic, and Cadmium Harm Our Health. She was the food editor of Consumers' Research Bulletin magazine. In 1973, she delivered mini-lessons on nutrition on a television program called Beatrice Trum Hunter's Natural Foods on the Boston public television station WGBH. She died on May 17, 2017 at the age of 98.

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