Why Everyone Needs Supplements
Let me throw out a quick question.
When you were a small child, did you give a lot of thought to the foods that you ate?
Sure, you might have given it a lot of thought in the way that you preferred chocolate ice-cream to raw celery, but I’m talking about a general ‘is everything that I eat good for me’ sort of way?
Of course you didn’t, for two very simple and basic reasons.
First, in the unlikely event that you ever gave a moment’s thought to such matters, you would have assumed that it was your parent’s job to worry about what you ate.
Second, as we have already established above, the medical thinking of the time was that the food that you ate was, in fact, good enough and that there was simply no need for anything else.
As we have seen, opinions have changed somewhat over the last ten years, although there is still no unified medical opinion as to whether supplements are necessary.
For example, whilst many Doctors would say that supplements are something that everyone should consider, many dieticians do not agree.
They will take the view that, as long as you eat the correct diet, then there should be no need for supplements at all.
And, of course, whilst they are 100% correct, that view tends to ignore one critical factor about the diet of modern man.
Very, very few people even attempt to eat a ‘perfect’ diet and for those that actually do make the effort, there is still no guarantee that the foods they eat are doing their job properly.
For example, in truth, when was the last time you consciously made an effort to eat the recommended five to seven servings of fresh fruits and raw vegetables a day, consistently, over any reasonable period of time?
Sure, you have probably managed it every now and then, probably by accident, but that is not really the point.
And, even if you are one of the very small numbers who really do make the effort to eat as you are supposed to, what do you really know about the foods that you are eating?
Sure, you know that you eat the five to seven helpings of fruit and veg that the experts tell you should, but what do you actually know about those fruits and vegetables?
For example, do you know whether the soil that your vegetables were grown in have all of the trace minerals in the ground?
Unfortunately, given that most modern commercial methods of agriculture have severely depleted the soil of precious trace minerals all over the world, it is probably unlikely.
Furthermore, the same methods of agriculture have also helped to destroy the ability of plants to be able to utilize those elements, even when they are there.
Hence, your food is nutritionally deficient right from the start.
Where did the fruits that you eating come from? Were they locally grown, or shipped half way across the world in chilled containers?
If so, when they arrived, were they immediately transported to your local store, or were they sitting in a storage shed for months before you bought them?
In most cases, you just cannot know the answers to these and a multitude of other questions.
So, even if you try really hard to eat right, unless you are eating only expensive organically grown food, the chances are that what you are eating is not actually supplying every vitamin and mineral that you need, despite your best efforts.
And that assumes that you eat your food unprocessed and raw, which for most of us is just not the case.
The fact is that most of our food gets ‘refined’ before it ever reaches you, the consumer, and more of its nutritional content is removed in the process.
Then there is the question of whether most of the chemical pesticides and insecticides that are still widely used in certain parts of the world are ever capable of being 100% removed from the food we eat, or whether that food has been genetically engineered to make it somehow appear to be more appetizing and delicious.
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