Not long ago, when the vitamin craze hit America, the modem medical community made a very strong statement against the use of vitamins and other supplements. They told us that these supplements were dangerous, bad for us, unnecessary and part of an overall system of quackery. Critics of modern medicine claimed these harsh condemnations were expressions of fear.
The medical establishment was afraid—and still is— that alternative, or natural, health care was infringing on the medical institution’s money-making, monopolistic enterprise. The thought that people could take health care into their own hands was a horrifying one that threatened the medical community in the most sensitive area—the pocket-book. The only way to get people to stop buying vitamins, herbs, minerals and other supplements, and to prevent them from seeking out alternative therapies to drug and surgical approaches, was to launch an all-out defamation campaign, telling us through even* major media that vitamins and herbs are dangerous and even deadly. In this wake, by the way, the medical establishment ignored the fact that modem medical procedures and drugs are far more dangerous and deadly, and there are statistics to prove this fact. The attack on the alternative health and supplement industries has changed course over the last ten years only because major drug companies are now producing many of the vitamin supplements on the market today. The}r couldn’t beat ’em, so they joined ’em. Now7 the attack is focused mainly on natural health care modalities and practitioners—naturopaths,nutritionists, Chinese medical doctors, chiropractors, acupuncturists and others who offer a more natural approach to health care.
At one point, the modern medical community exclaimed that we did not need supplements because we could get “all of the vitamins and minerals we needed in our daily diet.” We don’t hear this claim very much any more, and maybe it’s too bad because there is a hint of validity in this—at least theoretically. Yes, foods can provide important nutrients, and in a better form and balance than exists in vitamin pills. However, the fundamental problem with the aforementioned statement is that today’s diets are fail to offer health, immunity, prevention and nutritional value. Today’s diets are full of chemicals, preservatives, dead foods, altered fats and other foul nutrition. In addition, today’s foods lack nutrients, including vitamins, minerals, enzymes, essential fatty acids and other properties that our bodies desperately need to function optimally. Theoretically, we should get our vitamins and minerals from our diets; and our diets should really contain natural, whole foods like alfalfa, wheat bran, carrots, broccoli, spinach, apples, oranges, good meats, nuts, seeds, berries and more— all uncooked and unprocessed. Vitamin, mineral and multivitamin supplements do not contain the nutrients that exist within such foods. You can, however, find them in a whole food concentrate supplement—a supplement comprised of whole, raw foods that have been concentrated into tablet, powder or capsule form. Yet, we must always keep in mind that even whole food concentrates are still supplements—not replacements for foods, but rather additions to a sound and healthful diet that is made up of a variety of natural foods.
Foods contain a plethora of nutrients and substances not found in vitamin pills, multivitamin supplements or mineral supplements. An apple, for instance, contains a skin that helps clean the intestinal (digestive) tract, a juicy meat full of many vitamins, minerals, enzymes and natural sugars, and an easv-to-digest juice that is chock full of nutrients. If you bite into a vitamin pill, I guarantee it is not as delicious as an apple. Thats because a vitamin is not a food. An apple a day is said to keep the doctor away, but
a vitamin pill cannot make the same claim. Why not? A vitamin pill is incomplete; it's missing the wonderful, mouthwatering, nutritious, fiber-filled and substantive traits of the apple.
References: WE NEED MUCH MORE THAN JUST VITAMINS FOR HELTH & PREVENTION
The medical establishment was afraid—and still is— that alternative, or natural, health care was infringing on the medical institution’s money-making, monopolistic enterprise. The thought that people could take health care into their own hands was a horrifying one that threatened the medical community in the most sensitive area—the pocket-book. The only way to get people to stop buying vitamins, herbs, minerals and other supplements, and to prevent them from seeking out alternative therapies to drug and surgical approaches, was to launch an all-out defamation campaign, telling us through even* major media that vitamins and herbs are dangerous and even deadly. In this wake, by the way, the medical establishment ignored the fact that modem medical procedures and drugs are far more dangerous and deadly, and there are statistics to prove this fact. The attack on the alternative health and supplement industries has changed course over the last ten years only because major drug companies are now producing many of the vitamin supplements on the market today. The}r couldn’t beat ’em, so they joined ’em. Now7 the attack is focused mainly on natural health care modalities and practitioners—naturopaths,nutritionists, Chinese medical doctors, chiropractors, acupuncturists and others who offer a more natural approach to health care.
At one point, the modern medical community exclaimed that we did not need supplements because we could get “all of the vitamins and minerals we needed in our daily diet.” We don’t hear this claim very much any more, and maybe it’s too bad because there is a hint of validity in this—at least theoretically. Yes, foods can provide important nutrients, and in a better form and balance than exists in vitamin pills. However, the fundamental problem with the aforementioned statement is that today’s diets are fail to offer health, immunity, prevention and nutritional value. Today’s diets are full of chemicals, preservatives, dead foods, altered fats and other foul nutrition. In addition, today’s foods lack nutrients, including vitamins, minerals, enzymes, essential fatty acids and other properties that our bodies desperately need to function optimally. Theoretically, we should get our vitamins and minerals from our diets; and our diets should really contain natural, whole foods like alfalfa, wheat bran, carrots, broccoli, spinach, apples, oranges, good meats, nuts, seeds, berries and more— all uncooked and unprocessed. Vitamin, mineral and multivitamin supplements do not contain the nutrients that exist within such foods. You can, however, find them in a whole food concentrate supplement—a supplement comprised of whole, raw foods that have been concentrated into tablet, powder or capsule form. Yet, we must always keep in mind that even whole food concentrates are still supplements—not replacements for foods, but rather additions to a sound and healthful diet that is made up of a variety of natural foods.
Foods contain a plethora of nutrients and substances not found in vitamin pills, multivitamin supplements or mineral supplements. An apple, for instance, contains a skin that helps clean the intestinal (digestive) tract, a juicy meat full of many vitamins, minerals, enzymes and natural sugars, and an easv-to-digest juice that is chock full of nutrients. If you bite into a vitamin pill, I guarantee it is not as delicious as an apple. Thats because a vitamin is not a food. An apple a day is said to keep the doctor away, but
a vitamin pill cannot make the same claim. Why not? A vitamin pill is incomplete; it's missing the wonderful, mouthwatering, nutritious, fiber-filled and substantive traits of the apple.
References: WE NEED MUCH MORE THAN JUST VITAMINS FOR HELTH & PREVENTION
