Nutritional Vitamin Supplements – What You Need to Know
Posted on June 24, 2009
What do we really know about all the vitamin and mineral supplements available today? Do the vitamins we take really help us at all? What do you know about the company that makes them or how they make them? Where do the raw materials come from? What exactly are we consuming?
The vitamin and mineral market is a multi-billion dollar industry and unfortunately most of the information it provides is totally self-serving. Knowing a little bit about the body, doing your own research, and using the power of deduction, all will help to discern the truth.
Our bodies were not made to survive on fractionated or isolate vitamins. These have also come to be known as synthetic because they are “pulled” from either natural or man-made substances. They do not contain whole complexes that the body needs.
For instance, vitamin C purchased at a local store may read 500mg of ascorbic acid yet ascorbic acid is not vitamin C. Vitamin C is a complex that when found in fruits and vegetables contains 37 separate things.
If you give a person with scurvy, a vitamin C deficiency, 1000mg of this typical store-bought vitamin C isolate, they will not respond. However, if you give them an orange or lemon to eat, it would heal them quickly. All vitamin supplements are not created equal. What chemicals do in a test tube and what they do in the body can be totally separate things.
Living bodies require whole food nutrition to function properly. Whole food nutrition when processed properly provides us the building blocks for excellent health and well-being.
Consider the following:
* The New England Journal of Medicine reported on April 14, 1994 a research study in which 29,000 male smokers were given isolate/fractionated vitamins A and E to evaluate their cancer protective value.
The results following 10 years were as follows:
- there was an 18% higher rate of lung cancer, an 8% higher overall death rate, and more heart attacks in men taking the vitamin A.
- The men consuming the isolate vitamin E demonstrated an increase in stroke.
* In a study reported in the New England Journal of Medicine on November 23, 1995, isolate/fractionated vitamin A was given to 22,748 pregnant women. The study was discontinued in four years due to a 240% increase in birth defects.
*Reuters Health reported a study on March 3, 2000 that demonstrated that typical store-bought isolate/fractionated vitamin C in doses as little as 500mg per day can and does induce atherosclerosis or hardening of the arteries.
Whole food nutrition is living nutrition, when properly processed and balanced, and are the best and safest of all nutritional supplementation.
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