Vitamins Supplements
Inadequate Nutrients From Fresh Foods
Our food production methods (over farming, use of pesticides) coupled with the burgeoning fast food industry and poor cooking methods (over cooking, deep-frying) play a key role in depriving our bodies of important nutrients. When nutrient deficiencies interact with high levels of stress and little or no exercise, they result in lifestyle diseases like type II diabetes, coronary artery disease, high blood pressure etc.
It is clear from the growing incidence of lifestyle diseases that the food that we eat today does not provide us with optimum nutrients required to maintain a positive state of health. Fresh fruits and vegetables provide adequate nutrients if they are picked when ripe and eaten immediately. Today that is not possible as they are picked before they are ripe and then treated with chemicals to “appear” ripe but do not have the nutritional value of ripe vegetables. These “fresh” fruits and vegetables lose further nutrients as they travel from the farm to your kitchen.
Once in the kitchen, we overcook, deep fry, mishmash our food and even reheat the leftovers thus creating nutritional disasters. Such food has not more than 25 per cent nutrient value left in it. Therefore we cannot think of getting adequate amounts of vitamins and minerals only through food.
Taking vitamins supplements is a good way to fulfill body need of 13 essential vitamins for proper functioning of the body. There are a number of dedicated vitamins supplements products available world wide today and all the products are made of the finest of vitamins supplements, sifted, processed and pure
If you are asking me “Are the vitamins in supplements identical to fresh foods?” There answer is “No”. But at least they are better than trying to get everything you need out of a can.
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