Does everyone need them? Of course! Absolutely! Our bodies wouldn’t be able to function and would soon die without vitamins. The question is, do we need “supplemental” vitamins? In America, and most of the rest of the world, today, Yes, for nearly everyone.
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The foods produced in our over-planted, nutrient-depleted, many times highly chemicalized soils is not providing the level of nutrients we need. Not only the growing process, but also the handling, shipping, and storage processes further reduce their nutritional value.
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Then as if that isn’t enough depletion, these fresh, whole, God-given foods are usually highly adulterated and further depleted by processing them into non-food forms – “refined”, further stripped of nutrients, “pasturized” and “denatured” to kill any living property in them, and then many more “enhancing” chemicals are added to make the edible, and perhaps some artificial coal tar vitamins thrown in. They throw this into a box, can or pouch and tell us this is “enriched” food. If you eat these kinds of foods, you should now understand why you (or those that eat these foods) need vitamin supplements.
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But even those that don’t eat these adulterated, stripped foods and just eat whole foods may still may not be getting enough nutrients from those foods in our society. There’s still the growing, handling, shipping, storage problems. Especially in the growing process if you aren’t able to get all organic foods, and that is really hard, if not impossible, to do in our culture. A wide variety of all organically grown foods is not available locally, year round to most of us.
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So, yes, nearly everyone needs to “supplement” their food intake to get proper nourishment. Proper nourishment will keep your body functioning as it was made to. It will give it the nutrition it needs to have the strength to fight off all the bugs, diseases, and degeneration lurking at the door for an opportunity to come in.
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So the most important question is, How shall we get supplemental nutrients? (It really is more than “vitamins”.)
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Stay tuned for Part 2 tomorrow.
