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An excerpt from Eating for Beauty by David Wolfe
A lack of natural salts and vegetables in the diet and/or eating high
quantities of "complex carbohydrates," and sugars (which flush
minerals salts from the body) eventually causes the body to become deficient
in chloride and subsequently, in HC1. Even eating only fruit for several
months can have this effect.
HC1 is the body's first lines of defense, because it also destroys parasites,
mold, harmful bacteria, and viruses. HC1 activates pepsin, encourages
the flow of bile and pancreatic enzymes, facilitates absorption of nutrients,
including folic acid, ascorbic acid, beta carotene, plant-based (non-heme)
iron, and some forms of calcium, magnesium, and zinc.
When HC1 production is low, it affects the metabolism. It causes incomplete
digestion of food and failure of assimilation. Common symptoms associated
with low Hydrochloric acid afflict a large portion of the population."
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