The April 2010 issue of Reader's Digest has an interesting article in it about the futility of trying to become "healthy" by taking multivitamins. Here are some of the "Myths" that are commonly believed by many:
Myth #1: A multivitamin can make up for a bad diet. There is NO substitute for WHOLE FOODS.
Myth #3: Vitamin pills can prevent heart disease. You'd be better off eating a whole foods based diet rich in fruits, vegetables, and whole grains.
Myth #4: Taking vitamins can protect against cancer. Neuhouser's enormous multivitamin study disproves this idea.
Myth #5: Well...it can't hurt to take them, can it? Vitamins are safe when you get them naturally in whole foods, or from the juice of whole foods.
I believe that beginning in Eden, God gave mankind everything they need to growth and stay healthy in the fruits, vegetables, and grains he provided Adam and Eve. There are thousands of nutrients in whole foods that modern science hasn't figured out yet as far as what their benefit is. But what medical science IS figuring out is that it makes no sense to segregate out a few nutrients and take massive quantities of them while ignoring those we don't understand yet.
There really is no substitute for whole foods!
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Whole foods containing all the vitamins and minerals as they used to 150 years ago were what your body needed for health. Today they are deplete of these needed nutrients as are the soils they are grown in. They are sprayed with chemicals and irradiated as well. How can you say we get all we need from our food supply.
ReplyDeleteReaders digest is just about owned by the pharmaceutical industry sadly. You cannot trust their take on vitamins at all.
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