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is is an excerpt from the author of a website I found interesting and would like to get everyone's opinion:
"The problem with just about any supplementation program is this. Virtually all nutrients work in synergy with 8 to 12 other nutrients. Also scientists have estimated that we have only discovered 5 to 10% of all the nutrients in foods. So taking supplements of any kind is much
worse than eating the whole foods that our bodies were designed for. In fact, they can cause deficiencies and create an increased workload for the body. Too many nutrients are worse than useless if we can't absorb
them. This means that the body then has to waste its energy in removing these nutrients.
Just imagine if had to ship out 100 widgets. You call the company that supplies boxes for you and they deliver 10,000 boxes rather than 100. Are those extra boxes going to make it easier for you to deliver those widgets? On the contrary you'll have to get rid of most of them and find storage area for some of them. Basically it is a drain on your
resources. You now have to do all sorts of extra work to get rid of the excess.
The same happens with the body. It can only handle so many tasks at once. The reason a raw food diet is so helpful to the body is that it has much fewer toxins than the Suicide American Diet. This means the body has much more energy to go towards healing. All animals have different nutrient needs. If you fed a rat human mother's milk it would not thrive because it isn't high enough in amino acids. But for the human baby it is the ideal food. More is not better.
The right quantity and right kinds of nutrients are what we need. Anything extra is a burden to the body."
In Reply to: Supplemenation vs. Raw Food diet posted by Tim on November 22, 2003 at 17:58:27:
Tim, I think the question is " do you want to take a chance with your health " Why not do both? The problem with supplements is you will never know if they help you long term..Cause if they work you don't get sick..I take all of them and feel better, so do they work for me? Ask me in 20 years..I'm not going to take the chance..Silver Fox!
In Reply to: Supplemenation vs. Raw Food diet posted by Tim on November 22, 2003 at 17:58:27:
I am a big advocate of supplementation, and after working with animals for many years and seeing the benefits of adding supplements to the diets of dogs and cats, as well as the benefits I have gotten from supplements, I believe that they are indeed helpfull, and I disagree with the original poster.
Our bodies are incredibly savy and sophistic organisms, and even if some of the helpfull elements of a certain supplement are lacking, the body still makes use of what it can get.
In Reply to: Supplemenation vs. Raw Food diet posted by Tim on November 22, 2003 at 17:58:27:
Hi Tim,
I agree that excess supplementation is a burden to the body. However, when you don't get enough of something, it can also make you sick, and sometimes extra supplementation is required to make you well. This is what happened in my case -- I had to take megadoses of certain supplements, and my condition was much improved from doing that.
However, I got off of them as soon as I didn't need them any more. (My body basically told me to do it!).
Best wishes,
Happygal
In Reply to: Supplemenation vs. Raw Food diet posted by Tim on November 22, 2003 at 17:58:27:
I agree, ideally we should be getting all we need from the food we eat. However, our food supply is substandard from what it was hundreds of years ago. There are not enough vitamins, minerals, etc. in the food, because they are no longer in the ground. We need to suppliment just to maintain what we should be, but are not getting from nature. What really scares me is that since we haven't identified all of the vitamins and minerals that are in food, what are we missing that we are not replacing??
In Reply to: Supplemenation vs. Raw Food diet posted by Tim on November 22, 2003 at 17:58:27:
Thanks, Tim.
This is EXACTLY why supplements like "Perfect Food" by gardenoflifeusa.com have come into being. I have started taking them (a year ago) and have been trying to educate people on the BB about them for nearly a year now. They are carried in most of the healthfood stores in our town now.
Walt
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