Healthy trace elements are important for overall body health. They come in small amounts but still carry great importance. You obtain trace elements from natural resources like fruits, vegetables and meats. You can even collect a little silver by eating from a silver spoon.
Healthy Trace Elements
Trace elements are tiny little things we eat
Like iodine, salt, cobalt and
magnesium
They come riding in on brightly colored berries
Black olives,
red beets, grapes, celery, red-meat and fish
The amount can be small, like the silver
That you obtain by licking the silver spoon
With which you eat…with
A wide variety of fruits and vegetables—especially raw ones
Can help assure that we get a good supply
One hundred trillion cells make up my body
Each one is a tiny factory
With three to five million events
Taking place at any one time
Messengers come and go
And supplies enter and exit
As they communicate in their salty sea
Trace elements are critical in this mix
All are needed to manufacture the chemicals
That keeps the heart beating steadily
And the brain functioning
And the eyes seeing
The body will pool these little guys
And combine them as needed
You needn’t be concerned with quantity
The needs and variety are too complex
For conscious thought
But the cells and brain will send
Messengers to the briar patch
To shop for these
If you will only listen
And pay attention
And don’t pig-out on non-essentials
At the expense
Of what is being sought.
A good read: The Cleveland Clinic Healthy Lifestyle Guide and Cookbook
