Whole Food versus Nutritional Supplements

Your body needs whole food fuel that is dense in proteins, vitamins, minerals, amino acids, fatty acids, phytonutrients, and living enzymes. Your body needs all of those nutrients and it needs them every single day in their natural whole food form to function properly.

Nutritional supplements in the form of pills, capsules, and liquid potions have become the accepted norm for nutrition in our society. We've been conditioned to believe that a few pills a day offer the same benefit of a healthy diet, but common sense and the latest research tell us something different.

"The thousands of vitamins, minerals and phytochemicals [beneficial plant compounds] in whole foods act synergistically together to create a more powerful effect than the sum of their parts, producing a result which cannot be recreated by nutritional supplements," says Jeff Prince, vice president for education at the American Institute for Cancer Research.

That is not to say that nutritional supplements are of no use. They can be of great benefit, when taken based on individualized needs. Most nutrition experts recommend a daily multivitamin and mineral tablet for everyone. But nutritional supplements simply can't compete with better food choices.

Highly absorbable vitamins, minerals, enzymes, proteins, essential fatty acids, friendly bacteria, phytonutrients and more can only be found in whole foods. Whole foods contain highly complex structures that combine a variety of enzymes, coenzymes, antioxidants, trace elements, activators and many other unknown or undiscovered factors all working together synergistically, to enable this vitamin complex to do its job in your body. Nutrients from within this whole food complex cannot be taken apart or isolated from the whole and be expected to do the same job in the body as the whole complex is capable of doing.

The only food I found that is pure and has the nutrients, is the raw food from whole food farmacy. www.naturezone1.com

Because our soil being so depleted we are not getting the nutrients our body needs, even though I'm mostly raw I take coral calcium and magic bullet from http://www.wondrousproducts.com  and minerals for optimum health from www.meminerals .com.

Alot of people think being healthy is a chore. But it really is not it's a lifestyle change. You get so use to it , it becomes natural and fun.