But try as you might to follow sound eating principles, your diet may still lack crucial vitamins and minerals.

The Tigris-Euphrates plain lacked minerals and trees.

Before anyone could say another word, the library's voice said: "The basic problem is a diet that lacks many essential vitamins and minerals.

Small, landlocked and lacking strategic minerals, Burundi is little known to the outside world.

But for others, "unless people are very careful, a gluten-free diet can lack vitamins, minerals, and fiber," says Green.

Gold-hungry Spain gave only scant attention to Trinidad's land, which lacked precious minerals.

But you would lack all the vitamins, minerals and protein needed for a healthy diet.

Most of this processed food lacks vitamins and minerals and only supplies empty calories.

He said the cereals tended to lack vitamins and minerals and "cost more per pound than if you ate filet mignon."

The Korean peninsula lacks minerals and energy resources, South Korea would find absorbing the North a terrific burden.