title: Natural micronutrients as controlling factors in Western diseases--a lesson in nature-programming.
abstract: Micronutrients, essential for approximately 65% of all known enzymes, have during this century been considerably reduced in modern Western diets, due to food refinement, canning, refrigeration and additives. This reduction coincided with a phenomenal increase of Western and industrial diseases, many of them with genetic associations. Different basic diets in genetic races over thousands of years have led to a high percentage of enzyme polymorphisms, suggesting different basic diets necessary for different genetic races. These basic diets, with or without micronutrient supplementation, should be a necessary component of Western diseases prevention and therapy.
authors.affiliation: 2 Military Hospital, Cape Town, Republic of South Africa.
authors.forename: L S
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: De Villiers
mesh_terms: D000383:Agriculture; D004032:Diet / Q000009:adverse effects; D004194:Disease / Q000209:etiology*; D004798:Enzymes / Q000235:genetics; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008903:Minerals / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D008954:Models, Biological; D011110:Polymorphism, Genetic; D011315:Preventive Medicine; D044469:Racial Groups / Q000235:genetics; D014815:Vitamins / Q000008:administration & dosage*
chemical_list: D004798:Enzymes; D008903:Minerals; D014815:Vitamins