A Health supplement becomes mandatory as the food supply
demonstrates it contains fewer and fewer nutrients. Fruits and
vegetables show signs that the nutritional quality is fast sliding
downhill and what Grandpa ate, was far more healthful.
Depleted
soil with just enough nutrients to grow genetically altered fruits and
vegetables produce less vitamin charged foods for our consumption. Baby
boomers approach the age where the body no longer processes foods as
efficiently as it did when it was younger and find that what kept them healthy years ago,
no longer suffices. Busy schedules mean meals on the run, which often
contain empty calories. All of these instances scream out, "nutritional supplements, please."
Scientists
now discover that certain diseases might be forestalled or eliminated
if only the individual would have added a nutritional supplement to
their diet. India has a lower incidence of prostrate cancer, lung cancer
and breast. Why? There is a direct correlation to their prevalent use
of turmeric in Indian foods. This is just one indicator that food makes a
difference and something is missing from the American diet.
The
average family no longer sits around the supper table and discusses the
day's events while munching on a delicious home cooked meal made from
the family garden. Meals come in containers that might be plastic, flat
and square or even cute little square containers with handles.
Many of these foods are over-processed, overcooked, and lack all forms of nutrition,
except they're crunchy, easy and the family likes them. It isn't that
the meal planner doesn't try, it's simply that there's no time and
everyone arrives home at a different time.
Sometimes the
traditional meal planner, the Mom, arrives home long after the rest of
the family and, if they wait, they're ready for dinner the minute she
walks through the door. Who wouldn't want to put something on the table
that doesn't take an hour to chop, sauté, steam or prepare?
Studies now show what once was thought as a normal part of the aging process is nothing more than lack of nutrition.
People don't have to become senile when they age. Mental confusion,
depression and even Alzheimer's might be linked to the senior's
nutritional health.
As people age, more and more cells
begin to die, many because of the oxidation process caused by free
radicals. This action doesn't have to take place if the individual
supplies antioxidants for their body to help fight the battle at a
cellular level. Premature wrinkling, increased joint damage, extra
weight, debilitating disease and mental degeneration all have links to
the nutritional intake of the individual.
It isn't enough
just to take a health supplement; you need to take the right nutritional
supplements. Not all vitamin and mineral supplements are alike.
Even
with the best vitamins, you may need combinations found only in herbs.
Many of the ancient remedies now find their way into the laboratory. The
reason is that they work. They don't work because they're shaped like
an organ, but because of the combinations and micronutrients they
contain.
Many of these herbs are not used frequently in foods as they once were and because of that, modern man misses the benefits they bring to table. Often the only way to include them in your diet is through a health supplement.
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