Whole food nutritional supplements offer better health benefits than isolated vitamins and minerals

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*Whole food nutritional supplements offer better health benefits than

isolated vitamins and minerals*

 

In the natural health community, what we've learned over the years as

scientists and observers of human nature is that *the human

body<http://www.newstarget.com/001559.html>is not designed to consume

isolated nutrients and use them effectively

*. It must take in a full spectrum of supporting complementary nutrients as

they exist in nature. So, for example,

lycopene<http://www.newstarget.com/002523.html>is one phytonutrient

found in

tomatoes <http://www.newstarget.com/004574.html> that is well known to help

prevent prostate cancer <http://www.newstarget.com/002537.html>. But, in

fact, if you take lycopene by itself, it's not going to have nearly the

positive effect of eating whole tomatoes or taking whole-food concentrates

made from dried organic tomatoes. So getting these

minerals<http://www.newstarget.com/007045.html>in their full-spectrum

natural ratios (ratios which they're found in nature)

is very important.

 

It's also important to consider the density of these nutrients. If I were to

ask you to eat 10 fresh tomatoes at one serving, you probably wouldn't be

able to get through more than five or six without feeling full. That's

because tomatoes have a lot of water, and they fill you up quickly. So you

wouldn't be able to get much

nutrition<http://www.newstarget.com/003840.html>from those tomatoes if

you ate them raw. Certainly, they're good for you in

their raw form, and that's the best way to eat them, but that's not going to

meet your nutritional needs. In contrast, if you were to take these 10

tomatoes and dry them, and then grind them up into a powder, and then shape

that powder into capsules or tablets and consume those, you could easily eat

those 10 tomatoes and enjoy all their nutritional benefits. It's all about

the density of nutrients. But let me be clear: I'm not at all saying that

you shouldn't eat raw tomatoes or other whole foods; what I'm saying is that

*raw foods are good for calories, but getting outstanding nutrition requires

consuming whole food concentrates*. Personally, I eat them both: fruits and

vegetables <http://www.newstarget.com/004879.html> for enjoyment and

calories, combined with whole food concentrates for nutrition (*see related

ebook on nutrition* <http://www.truthpublishing.com/7laws.html>).

*Avoid isolated vitamins and minerals*

**

I also recommend that you move away from isolated vitamins and minerals. So

forget about those cheap, low-cost bottles of vitamin C, vitamin

E<http://www.newstarget.com/001077.html>or those B vitamins you might

find at the wholesale clubs, pharmacies or

grocery stores. These are typically not going to do you very much good,

because your body doesn't need just vitamin C; your body needs a whole

complement of vitamins from a lot of different sources. If you want vitamin

C, go with whole-food concentrates. You'll get plenty of vitamin C in a

full-spectrum package that gives you antioxidants, phytonutrients, and

cancer <http://www.newstarget.com/002608.html> fighting compounds all at the

same time; and none of that is actually listed on the label.

For example, if you buy the Alive Whole Food Energizer, you're not going to

see on the label a listing of the B vitamins, the C vitamins, the

antioxidants and so on, because it's not broken down like that. It just

tells you what foods were used to make the product. From there, you have to

understand that those foods provide those nutrients and much more in a full

spectrum of great nutrition.

It's also important to take these supplements from several different

sources. You don't want to take only Jenny Lee supergreens every day and

rely on that as your only source of supplemental nutrition. You don't want

to take only the Alive food supplement and rely on that. You don't want to

rely on any one brand; you want to have a variety of nutritional products so

that you're getting whole food sources from three or four different

manufacturers on a daily basis. This is the best way to be sure that you're

getting a full complement of fruits <http://www.newstarget.com/001384.html>,

vegetables, mushrooms, microalgae <http://www.newstarget.com/002031.html>,

and other food sources that can provide peak nutrition for you.

*High-density whole food concentrates provide real nutrition*

**

In the world of holistic nutrition, we take whole foods from nature that are

grown organically, or we take microalgae and other superfood supplements,

and we dry them, grind them up, put them into powders, and then encapsulate

those powders or shape them into pills or tablets. That's the way to get

your nutrition in the modern world. That's the way healthy people do it, and

that's the way I've been doing it for years. I can't imagine living a single

day without taking dozens of nutritional

supplements<http://www.newstarget.com/001257.html>made from whole-food

concentrates. They aren't pills or medicine, in my

view: they're just high-density food.

 

*This article is a content segment from the book, the Five Habits of Health

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The book covers the five most effective, yet effortless strategies for

enhancing health. Written for busy people, it explains how to get the

greatest health results possible with the least investment in time, money or

effort.*

 

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