Hard facts on colloidal minerals: cure-all or crushed rocks?

Nutrition Forum, Sept-Oct, 1997 by Beth Fontenot

The bottom line is that a healthy diet that provides a wide variety of foods from both plant and animal sources is the safest, least expensive, and most practical way to ensure an adequate intake of the minerals required by the human body. The claims for colloidal minerals are just too hard to swallow.

Beth Fontenot is a nutrition consultant and freelance nutrition writer in Lake Charles, LA. She serves on the adjunct faculty at both McNeese State University in Lake Charles and Lamar University in Orange, T-X.