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Are Whole Food Supplements Better for You then Vitamins?


Posted by Michelle T Patient Expert

Foods heal illness, provide our cells with energy, prevent disease and build our immunity. Only whole, natural foods have this life-supporting power. Not vitamins, not multivitamins and not drugs.



Whether you are suffering from a common cold, arthritis, asthma, heart disease, cancer, mouth sores, diabetes, prostate problems, PMS, osteoporosis, joint pain, headaches, back pain or any other symptom or disease, you absolutely need the full range of nutrients that are only found in nature’s real, whole, pure foods.



Vitamins and multivitamins are not foods. In fact, they are a collection of chemicals. Over the years, food science researchers have identified a great number of important food substances that are far more important than vitamins or minerals! This amazing discovery explains why vitamin and mineral pills just do not work as well as whole foods and whole food supplements.



The key is that foods, including the foods in our supplements, contain a wide variety of nutrients that our bodies desperately need and use to maintain health, healing, prevention and immunity. These nutrients include vitamins and minerals, but also trace minerals, enzymes, flavonoids, carotenoids, pigments, terpenes, chlorophyll, coenzymes, covitamins, amino acids and much much more.



The scientific fact is that, without these important nutrients, our bodies cannot heal or prevent disease. And, scientists absolutely cannot create or duplicate any of these natural food ingredients in their laboratories. Therefore, without real foods, we cannot survive and we cannot heal.



Vitamin supplements (which are only PARTS of foods) contain only vitamins, leaving out all of the real, natural, life-supporting nutrients named above. Without synergists — cofactors existant within the whole food complex, the body continues to be starved of micronutrients needed for healing, repair and prevention.



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The body does not recognize any difference between synthetic vitamins and vitamins from natural sources as they have exactly the same chemical structure, with the exception of D-Alpha Tocopherol derived from natural sources, which is the only form of Vitamin E that the body can digest.  Supplements are to be taken with your meals so that the synergy of cofactors mentioned in the earlier reply is in action.

But it is always preferable to get your vitamins from natural sources as this enhances the nutritional value. For example, a synthetic supplement may contain only beta-carotone (an antioxidant) which is just one of a group of caretenoids. But carrot powder contains the whole group of caretenoids, all of which are necessary to impart health benefits to the body. By isolating nutrients, synthetic supplements may deprive you of full nutritional value. Whole food supplements provide a complete source of nutrition with the least amount of calories. In fact, I use one called Ruby Reds which has a combination of fruits and vegetables from over 50 natural sources with just 30 calories per serving. It’s definitely a delicious way to diet and provide your body with the healthy nutrients it needs! 
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