Good Reasons to take Supplements...
Twenty five
years ago, virtually all of the M.D.’s hired by network news programs as
resident health experts pooh-poohed the notion of taking nutritional
supplements as unnecessary, possibly unhealthy and a waste of money. Since
then, many of these doctors went on to promote their own lines of vitamin
and mineral supplements!
Enough peer-reviewed
studies finally convinced even the former skeptics of the benefits of the
already popular practice of using “health supplements”. The widespread use
of vitamin, mineral and herbal formulas has spawned a multitude of studies
and a multi-billion dollar nutritional supplement industry. Can’t blame the
doc’s for hopping board!
Q. Why don’t we get all of
the more than 40 nutrients we need on a daily basis from even a “good” diet?
A. Because today, even the
most wholesome and ‘fresh’ food (days/weeks from field or farm), prepared
with minimal nutrient loss does not come close to meeting today’s heightened
nutritional needs.
Q. Why are today’s
nutritional needs higher than say…50years ago?
A. It’s due to a
combination of the depleted soils in which most all food/feed is grown and
an ever escalating amount of toxic and carcinogenic (cancer causing)
substances in our stressful environment. Numerous chemical, environmental
and psychological stressors increase the toxic load on our tissues, organs
and immune systems as well a accelerate aging. It’s a double jeopardy
situation where we need higher amounts (much higher in some cases) than the
RDA (Recommended Daily Allowance) of most all nutrients to counteract the
damage done by this toxic soup of chemicals, radiation, fumes and mutated
viruses and bacteria that we ingest, inhale, absorb or are somehow exposed
to every day. And let’s not forget the deleterious effect stress has on us
and how that depletes our nutritional reserves even further.
According to some sources,
in order to get the same nutritional value found in a cup of spinach 50
years ago, today you’d have to eat 47 cups to get the same nutritional
value.
Since the vast majority
of us can’t change the soil our food comes from or escape from the global
spread of pollution, nutritional supplements are clearly needed to make up
the deficits in even “good” diets |
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