Too much or too little of anything creates an imbalance.
If our diet or the food we eat is imbalanced it will cause disease.
An imbalance or deficiency causes disease.
Cause and effect
You may have heard of the concept of "cause and effect".
Is the [excess =] deficiency the cause and is the disease the outward manifestation of the effect?
You cannot always see the symptoms of a subclinical deficiency.
But you can see a disease or the results of a disease if a serious deficiency is involved!
DEFICIENCY = DISEASE
- SOIL
Often the diseases in plants can indirectly be associated with soil deficiencies [see below].
Acid soils due to low [deficient] Calcium levels have also been associated with fungal diseases.
DEFICIENCY = DISEASE
- PLANTS
In plants it is far easier to visualise this concept. For example a deficiency of Ca:
Apples "bitter pit" Celery "black heart"
Brussel Sprouts internal browning Peanuts empty shells
Capsicums/Tomatoes blossom end-rot Carrots cavity spot.
DEFICIENCY = DISEASE
- ANIMALS
Again there are many established deficiencies that have caused animal disease.
For example: Rickets = Calcium Deficiency & Goitres = Iodine Deficiency.
We all know that disease costs us money, but how much lost production occurs daily due to subclinical
deficiencies that we cannot easily define?
As commercial farmers we want more than healthy SOILS PLANTS AND ANIMALS.
We need optimum production for maximum profit.
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