Helpful Information About
Using Vitamin Supplements Wisely

Vitamin supplements are used to make up for the shortfall between what we get from food and what our bodies need. Although vitamins are found in all foods, what we eat might not contain all the vitamins we need.

In an ideal world, we should be able to get all the nutrients we need from the foods we eat. But two dominating factors come into play that reduce the amount of vitamins and other nutrients we get from our food. These two factors are the growing conditions of our food and the aging process.

Foods grown in depleted soils will have a considerably lower vitamin content; as will foods that are grown only with chemical fertilizers. Only rich soils and organic methods can provide for all the “unidentified factors” needed to grow healthful food with maximum nutrients.

As we get older, our bodies run down and become less efficient in extracting the nutrients from our food. While this is a sad fact of life, we are thankful that vitamin supplements can be used to slow down this inevitable decline due to the aging process.

Vitamins should not be considered a miracle cure for any sort of medical problem. Vitamins are a supplement to good food and enable your body to unlock the healthful benefits of the food you’re eating. They aid in the metabolism of food.

Saying that vitamins aid in metabolism may seem like an unimportant fact but it is a simple truth that has far reaching consequences; for if your body is not able to process food properly, it will not be long before serious medical issues will raise their ugly heads.

Vitamins were first identified in the early 1900’s. The discovery of vitamins was the result of many years of hard labor by different researchers into mysterious medical ailments. The end result was that certain processed foods were found to be void of important vitamins.

A prime example of the link between disease and deficient foods is that of white rice and its relation to the disease beriberi. Nutritional researchers discovered that white rice was missing a key ingredient that was later named vitamin B1. The irony is that the processing of brown rice to white rice removes this vitamin.

Before the cause of beriberi was identified, white rice was considered more healthful than brown rice. Today, the solution is to fortify white rice with various vitamin supplements, but that ignores the issue of what other important nutrients might be removed during the processing of brown rice to white rice.

Since we can never really be sure what important nutrients are lost in the processing of our foods, it seems prudent to eat whole foods with minimal processing. The benefits of eating white rice seem so small when compared with the overreaching issue of our health. Why gamble with your health by eating questionable food?

The information you’ll find on this website is intended to be sound and prudent advice about using vitamin supplements in your diet. The information we provide may not always keep up with the latest research but that’s only because we’re a little distrustful of the motives and methods of modern science. It’s hard to trust a medical industry that thinks sugary-artificial-flavor-and-coloring-loaded jello is appropriate food for a cancer patient.

We wish you good health and a long life. May the information you find here aid you in your journey.

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