Alan: >If two gentlemen and one lady were the first to show up at a dance, >the ratio of males to females would be 2:1. To get back to calcium, >phosphorus and magnesium, the ratio of calcium (per 100 mg or whatever) >to both of the other two should also be 2:1. It is easier to calculate >this way rather than with miselading percentages. Percentages? Look for a percentage symbol "%" if you suspect a percentage. 2:1 is the same, mathematically, as 2/1 or 2.00000000.... Granted the French use , for . in numbers but I can not fathom how you are ignorant to the decimal equivilant of a ratio. >Whereas I agree with you in principle, the NH people (at least most of them >and certainly most of the founders and pathfinders) are still correct on >this count. It is not a dogma it is a truth. Spoken like a pure dogmatic. ;) Cheers, Kirt Secola /\ Nieft [log in to unmask]