"Why do I need to use supplements? I eat well."
I'd love a dollar for every client that has told me that one. My normal reply is "Tell me where you buy your fresh foods and I'll tell you if you are eating well."
Organic Food Supplements
We would all like to think that if we eat a good variety of fruits and vegetables every day, we should be getting the full spectrum of vitamins and minerals that we need to stay healthy, but sadly this is not the case, thanks to over-farming and the overuse of pesticides, fungicides and herbicides by modern-day farmers. Cide means death, from the Latin word caedere, meaning to kill.
Have you ever noticed the connection between words like suicide, homicide, genocide, pesticide and fungicide?
Anyway, back to the fruits and vegetables and their lack of nutrients. Farmers use pesticides and herbicides in their fields to kill the pests that eat their crops, and these chemicals are very effective in their task, but unfortunately not all of the chemical stays on the plants and indeed much of it ends up on the ground, continuing the job of killing whatever life it encounters in the topsoil.
Sadly, micro organisms, earthworms and friendly bacteria are the main victims of this excess of chemicals in the short term and we ourselves as consumers, are the long-term victims.
These friendly organisms that live in the topsoil have a vital role to play and that role is to break down the rock minerals into a form that allows the plants to uptake these essential nutrients. Humans rely on plants as the main source of many minerals.
Minerals are often referred to as "the building blocks" of the body and put quite simply, without these building blocks, we cannot assimilate the vitamins and nutrients from the foods we eat.
Add to this dilemma, the fact that our fruits and vegetables are already poor, or in some cases pretty much bankrupt in essential nutrients, and you have a situation where we have to eat large volumes of fruits and vegetable just to get the same nutrition as we used to get from eating a few apples, bananas, spinach etc before the over-farming and chemical onslaught began about 60 years ago.
According to a study carried out by UCLA on Spinach grown in California in 1953 and revisited in 1997 to gather further data, it was found that to get the same amount of Iron in 1997 that one bowl contained in 1953, one would need to consume 43 bowls of spinach grown in the same area.
The examples below serve to give you an idea of just how much food we have to consume to achieve optimal levels of the following Vitamins:
• VITAMIN C.... 17 medium Kiwi fruit
• VITAMIN E.... 80 Mangos
• VITAMIN D.... 22 large egg yolks
• VITAMIN B6... 41 bananas
Of course it must be said that if you choose to eat Organic or better still, Biodynamic produce you will be getting more nutrition than is found in supermarket fruits and vegetables grown in poor soils and sprayed with nutrient robbing chemicals.
If you still don't think you need supplements, then you must be one of those lucky people that live on biodynamic foods all year round, have your own chickens and maybe a cow or goat out the back for milking - I salute your good fortune.
For the rest of us mortals, I would suggest that we need to search for the finest natural supplements to make up for the certain shortfall of nutrients in our daily diet.
My belief is that if we can replace these missing essential nutrients with high quality natural supplements and then combine that with a regular full body cleansing system to flush out the chemicals and toxins from the body, we will stay healthy into old age.
Full body cleansing is vital to staying healthy and keeping illness at bay, however this is a subject that needs an article devoted simply to that topic.
Be Happy - Stay Healthy - It's a great feeling.
Maurice Dunphy
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