In this blog I explore this statement and I will show you information which suggests that NO you cannot get all the Nutrients from the food you eat.
Vitamin & Minerals are vital nutrients for bodily functions and prevention of disease.
In a large 26,000 person study it was concluded that not one person received the nutritional requirements set forth by the RDA (Recommended Daily Allowance). 96% of the Australian population dies of a disease - we are not getting proper nutrition.
According to the American Medical Association, "Insufficient vitamin intake is apparently a cause of chronic diseases...Most people do not consume an optimal amount of all vitamins by diet alone. Pending strong evidence of effectiveness from randomized trials, it appears prudent for all adults to take vitamin supplements"
Vitamin & Mineral Supplementation is necessary for the following reasons:
1. Crop nutrient losses - Decades of agriculture have overworked & depleted soils of minerals.
2.Poor Digestion - Eating too much or too quickly & stress can cause indigestion. Indigestion reduces absorption of vitamins & minerals.
3. Over-cooking - Can easily destroy valuable nutrients.
4. Microwave cooking - Studies suggest that microwave cooking alters the nutritional structure of food.
5. Food Storage - Length of storage & freezing deplete the nutritional value of most foods.
6 Food Selection - Eating a too limited range of different food groups will result in nutrient deficiencies.
7. Food Omission - Allergies to foods, crash dieting and poorly designed vegetarian diets omit significant dietary sources of nutrients.
8. Environment factors - Herbicides & pesticides are used on crops, leaving them with low nutritional value.
9. Antibiotics - Antibiotics interfere with the intake of essential nutrients.
10. Poor Lifestyle habits - Smoking, alcohol and caffeine can inhibit the absorption of vitamins & minerals or accelerate the loss of nutrients.
11. Stress - Be it physical or emotional, can increase the body's requirement of vitamins and minerals.
12. Out of balance - The Level of each vitamin and mineral in the body has an effect on others, so if one is out of balance (missing), all are adversely effected. With antioxidants, one is not nearly as strong as several combined as each greatly enhances the power of others.
13. Nutrient variance - There are substantial differences between one fruit or vegetable and another. One tomato can have 10 times more nutritional value than another - which tomato did you eat?
Vitamins and minerals in your body should not be viewed as independent substances, but rather as a cooperative network of nutrients working together. If one nutrient is missing, it throws the entire network of nutrients out of balance.
"A deficiency of a vitamin or mineral will cause a body part to malfunction & eventually break down - and, like dominos, other body parts will follow."
James F Balch, M.D., Prescription for Nutritional Healing
Your health, your Intelligence, your Energy and your Appearance are dependant on you replenishing your vitamins and minerals several times per day.
What Do Vitamins and Minerals Do for You?
- Build Up Your Immune System, Illness and disease are not "caught". One doesn't catch cancer, heart disease or a cold. You create these ailments with deficiencies based on what you eat or don't eat.
- Increase Your Energy Level, Vitamins & Minerals are involved in the release of energy from digested foods. Strong, lasting energy levels are good indicators of healthy vitamin and mineral intake.
- Enhance Your Appearance, Skin clearness, tone, and elasticity, hair strength, thickness and color, fingernail strength, color and texture all depend on vitamins and minerals. Some people look 50 years old at 30. Some look 30 at 50.
- Expand Your Intelligence, Brain function, ability to concentrate and memory require proper vitamin and mineral levels.
Everyone will die, but how you look and feel for the last 20 - 50 years depends on your lifestyle and vitamin & mineral intake throughout your entire life.
"Soil depletion levels of minerals in Europe at 72% over the last 100 years" 1992 Earth Summit Report.
UK Study published in the British Food Journal, 1997, compared the mineral content of fruit and vegetables between 1930s - 1980s. The researches found that there was a significant reduction in calcium, magnesium, iron and copper. The calcium content of vegetables fell 80%, magnesium fell 65% and copper fell 20% from their original 1930s level.
The Medical Research Council UK 1940 / Royal Society of Chemistry & M.A.D.D 1991
Vegetable Mineral Loss
Avocado Sodium 62%
Carrots Magnesium 75%
Potatoes Phosphorous 47%
Spinach Iron 60%
Source: The Nutritional Practitioner, vol3(july2001) and The Daily Mirror (Monday March 5th 2001) / Diminishing Nutritional Values of Australian grown fruit and vegetables, C.S.I.R.O Australian 1948 - 1991
Vegetable Mineral 1948 1991 Loss
Apple Vitamin C 25mg 5mg 80%
Broccoli Magnesium 160mg 29mg 81.9%
Carrots Sodium 95mg 41mg 56.8%
Beta Carotene 25,000 IU 91IU 99.6%
Potatoes Potassium 650mg 450mg 30.8%
Calcium 27mg 3mg 88.9%
Iron 2mg 0.5mg 75%
Lets get back to that statement, "I can get all the Nutrients from the food I eat". From the above evidence, I can clearly say NO, you cannot get all the nutrients from the food you eat.
It is clear that everyone has to start supplementing their nutrients through a supplement which supplies the human body with balance nutrition.
A company by the name of Herbalife make it of great importance that their products provide the human body with 100% balanced nutrition through its unique and advanced "Cellular Nutrition" products. Take a look at my blog about Cellular Nutrition, http://wellnesscoachsupport.blogspot.com/2010/10/cellular-nutrition-does-your-weight.html
Herbalife has been developing these state of the art nutritional products for 30 years and have doctors and nutritionists that make sure that when you take these products into your body that you absorb 100% good balanced nutrition.
There are many Vitamin & Mineral Supplements on the market that all claim to be the best. I can confirm to you that the Herbalife products are the best considering that they have been providing the products for 30 years, have a Nobel Prize winner on their Advisory Board, have over 65 million testimonials of people getting great results on the products and are available in 73 countries around the world.
To find out more information about the Herbalife products or to speak to a coach, visit www.shapeofyourlife.com/rmilan.
References, "What Do Vitamins and Minerals Do for me?" from the Health Awareness Foundation. "Mineral Deficiency in Our Foods Why we Need nutritional supplementation?" from Mineral Deficiency of food in the USA. The Nutritional Practioner, vol3(july2001) and The Daily Mirror (Monday March 5th 2001), The Medical Research Council UK 1940, Royal Society of Chemistry & M.A.D.D 1991
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