When Food Is Not Enough

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In the article "Make Sure You're Using Unleaded" we discussed the kind of fuel our bodies need. Specifically we talked about the fact that our bodies need vitamins, minerals, amino acids, enzymes, and essential fatty acids, and that if a food does not contain these things, even if it is edible, it is not really a food. We learned that only fruits, vegetables, grains, seeds, nuts, and animal products contain the nutrients we need.

However, according to a 1988 Department of Agriculture report, our food supply is dangerously low in nutrients. Because of farming practices which concentrate on growing the same food item on the same land year after year, the soil has become depleted of nutrients, and therefore the food grown on that land is also nutrient-deficient. This situation was of some concern to the Department of Agriculture, and it should be of some concern to consumers as well. Why? Because even if we do consume the healthiest possible diet, we will still not be able to meet our bodies' nutritional needs with food alone, because that food does not contain the vitamins and minerals it was originally designed to contain.

That's why food is not enough to keep us healthy. If our food supply was at it's optimum level, then perhaps we could hope for optimum health. The only thing we can do is supply our bodies with the nutrients which are missing from our food supply. Also, some people think that if we follow the Recommended Daily Allowance that we will have optimum health. The RDA was constructed after World War II, and based on the minimal requirements for prevention of severe deficiency disease, rather than on the requirements for optimum health or deficiency correction. The RDA will not correct your vitamin deficiencies because it only contains enough nutrients for you to barely survive. It's like making the minimum payment on your credit card. It just barely moves you along toward getting out of debt....but if you have an emergency and have to use the card again, you're back where you started quickly. If you are only getting the RDA, and you have a lot of stress or get sick, you are back in the hole again. You need much larger amounts of nutrients for optimum health. If you were to try and get all these nutrients from food alone, you would be eating all day. We must also consider that we live in very stressful times. Our jobs, our relationships, the time pressures we are under, the fact that we often don't get enough sleep, all conspire to make our nutritional needs more significant.

Over the last few years, I have searched out and tried many, many supposedly high quality nutritional supplements. Many turned out not to be very helpful. Right now I am working with a company whose supplements are out of this world! I highly recommend that you try them.

Go to our Products for Unhindered Living and you will see the Standard Process Supplements. They are the only nutritional supplements I can recommend at this time.

What makes these supplements special? First of all, Standard Process has their own organic farm in Wisconsin and all the ingredients in their supplements are organically grown. Second, these supplements are made from whole foods. A small amount of a whole food will give you the whole vitamin complex, rather than a large dose of an isolated vitamin, which does not contain the whole complex of vitamins. For instance, Ascorbic Acid is just the outer layer of the Vitamin C molecule, it is NOT Vitamin C, and yet that is how it is marketed. When you take a supplement that says "Ascorbic Acid" on the label, you know you are NOT getting Vitamin C. There are over 100 vitamins in the Vitamin C complex, which you only get from taking the whole food form of the supplement. Third, these supplements also contain glandular extracts to help glands that are underactive or overactive to respond better.

For a summary of which supplements to use for which problems, go to our Standard Process page, which is still in progress.

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