How much do you pay for prescriptions, doctor visits, hospitalizations in a year's time? How much do you pay for health insurance? Health is building and maintaining a reserve energy base. Health and wellness is based on energetic balance. If you use up more energy in a day than you build, then the Immune System is stressed and exhausted. If your food does not give you energy, then you will not maintain wellness. Nancy Hicks, an Authentic Health Consultant, has devised methods to be able to evaluate if you are using more energy than you are taking in. Preventive Health is keeping the proper amount of energy moving and flowing. Minerals often provide energy in foods. However if your garden does not have minerals in the soil, then your vegetables won't either. Therefore in this case it would be to beneficial to mineralize your soil.