Why Supplement?

Many of us have heard the "experts" say there's no need to supplement if you eat a balanced diet. If only that were true. The food we eat today does not have the same value our food had 50-100 years ago. Supplementing helps us compensate for the lack of nutrients in today's food.

According to a Rutgers University study, it now akes 19 ears of corn to equal the nutritional value of just one ear of corn grown in 1940. It takes 80 cups of today's supermarket spinach to give you the same iron you would get from just one cup of spinach grown 50 years ago. There is less than half the protein in today's wheat as in the wheat our grandparents ate. Much of our soil is so depleted that our farm crops depend entirely on the chemical fertilizers they are fed to grow. That means that most of the food we eat is devoid of virtually all the trace minerals we need for survival.

This is an excerpt from Senate Document No. 264, 2nd Session 1936: "The alarming fact is that foods (fruits, vegetables, and grains) now being raised on millions of acres of land that no longer contain enough of certain minerals are starving us -- no matter how much of them we eat. No man of today can eat enough fruits and vegetables to supply his system with the minerals he requires for perfect health because his stomach isn't big enough to hold them."

When you add to the above information all the processed foods, fast foods, sodas, chemical additives, prescription medications, fast-paced and stressful lives most of us live, it is no wonder there are so many unhealthy people. Our bodies need vitamins, minerals, phytochemicals, and the good fats to function and survive throughout our lifetime. Nutrient deficient moms and dads create nutrient deficient children setting up a vicious cycle of a lifetime of discomfort, pain, and disease. Our bodies have a remarkable healing ability if given the right food and nutrients to sustain, rebuild, and rejuvenate itself. Simply by existing in this toxic, nutrient-deficient world we are subjecting our bodies to situations human-kind has never been exposed to before. Supplements are a great tool of prevention. Don't wait until your health is deteriorating. Be proactive and get on a good supplement program.

The dictionary says a supplement is a "nutrient or phytochemical supplied in addition to that which is obtained in the diet." This basic idea is correct, but dietary supplementation includes a much larger range of products, all geared toward the goal of feeling the best we can.

THE BASICS OF SUPPLEMENTATION:

Provide additional vitamins and minerals
Provide additional protein
Provide additional antioxidants
Provide additional essential fatty acids

ADDITIONAL USES OF SUPPLEMENTS:

To aid our digestion & elimination
To detox the liver, colon, & kidneys
To reduce pain & inflammation
To clean the blood
To remove heavy metals
Repair tissue damage
To rebuild beneficial bacteria destroyed by chlorinated water
& antibiotics in our food supply
To slow aging
To balance hormone levels
To provide support for specific body system function --
ie; brain function, cholesterl levels, stress relief, etc.

So aside from making up for the lack of nutrients in our diet, we
supplement to help us survive a less than-healthy-environment (air pollution, food supplies that are often contaminated, chlorinated water, fluoridation, etc.) and our less-than-perfect lifestyles (overeating, junk food, caffeine, cigarettes, etc.)
Doesn't it just make sense to begin adding nutritional supplements to your daily diet?

When health is absent,
Wisdom cannot reveal itself,
Art cannot become manifest,
Strength cannot be exerted,
Wealth is useless
and Reason is powerless.

--Ardmore Herophiles M.D. 300 B.C.
Father of Anatomy and Physician to Alexander the Great