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Taking Vitamins to Improve
Health & Wellbeing:
Are Supplemental Vitamins
and Nutrients Really Necessary for Us?
Vitamins, minerals,
phytonutrients and other life-enhancing constituents are all wonderfully
healthy for us; there's no doubt about that. However, these should all come
directly from the foods that we eat. If we are choosing the proper foods to
eat, and preparing those foods in the proper manners, then we should have no
need for supplementation.
Nutritional supplementation is a multi-billion dollar market annually. And
so is fast food. The point is that there are billions of people around the
planet that do benefit from supplements, but they do so unnecessarily in the
vast majority of cases. The money and time that they spend on nutritional
supplements would be far better directed at purchasing and preparing the
proper foods instead.
You see, natural food sources like vegetables, beans, fruits, herbs and
other plants contain all of the nutrients that we need in order to thrive.
The problem is that the average human diet is severely lacking in these
types of foods. The culprit comes in many forms including:
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Fast foods;
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Overcooked foods;
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Prepared, processed and
preserved foods;
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Microwave foods;
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Bleached foods;
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High fat foods;
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High sodium foods;
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Low-potassium foods;
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Steroid, pesticide and
herbicide-laden foods;
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and many more common in the
average human diet...
These poor food sources have no real nutritional value. Therefore, an
argument can be made that there is great benefit to nutritional
supplementation. However, by choosing the foods that nature provides, those
foods that are rich in water, vitamins and other life-sustaining nutrients,
we eliminate the need for supplementation. Just consider the word
“supplement”. It means “in addition to”. If we ensure that we are eating a
well-balanced diet, then there is no need to add anything to it at all.
That's what “well-balanced” means!
Our planet is a small one these days. One can easily go online and order
just about anything from anywhere. Exotic,
organic, natural foods are
available to anyone in most countries. Those in impoverished third-world
countries may very well benefit from nutritional supplements. They have very
little food variance and may well be lacking in many areas of human
nutrition. However, for the rest of the planet, attention should be directed
towards choosing and consuming a wide variety of the foods available.
Avoiding unhealthy food sources and concentrating on water-rich foods,
untainted from modern chemical processing, is the key to eliminating the
need for nutritional supplements. Ensure your vitality with a versatile
selection of nutrient-packed foods beginning today. Your body will soon
begin to thrive in every way. That's really all you need.
You must seek approval from your doctor
before starting any new diet.
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