To understand “Nutritional Therapy” you must first understand what nutrition is. Dictionary definition of nutrition is “The process of providing or obtaining the food necessary for health and growth”. Your body is designed to absorb vitamins and nutrients from food and only from food. “Whole Food” nutritional supplements are the only nutrients that your body understand.
“Whole Food” supplements are “complete concentrated real food,” they contain vitamins, minerals, enzymes and other co-factors in the exact ratios found in the foods themselves. “Whole Food” supplements are “Supper Foods”.
Our bodies are extremely deficient in the vital nutrients they need to keep us healthy. There are many reasons for this, but mostly it is due to the inferior food supply. We eat poor-quality foods that have been stripped of nutrients.
We do not consume enough fresh fruits and vegetables. Many of us get our whole grains from instant rice, refined wheat breads, pastas, and cereal. We eat a tremendous amount of prepackaged, pre-made meals. One-quarter of Americans eat at fast food restaurants each day. We are all overfed and undernourished.
Yes, we eat plenty but we are starving.
The foods we eat are not providing our bodies with the nutrition it needs to survive and be healthy. We are starving our bodies and we are sick. We suffer from diabetes, heart attacks, obesity, ADHD, depression, dementia, Alzheimer’s and the list goes on and on.
Given proper nutrition, our body has an amazing ability to heal itself. If properly fed and given the right nutrients, our body is designed to repair itself. To do so, we need to eat a healthier diet, and take high-quality supplements made from “Whole Foods”. Whole food supplements supply our bodies with nutrients we are not getting from our diet, all the vitamins, minerals, trace minerals, and phytonutrients that foods possess in a way that nature intended, in a whole food form.
“Whole Food” supplements are made by concentrating foods into supplements. Foods supply nutrients that work synergistically to provide you with optimal nutrition for good health.
The majority of the food on the grocery store shelves has been sprayed, injected, heated, etc. resulting in a poor vitamin, mineral and enzyme content (not to mention the poor soil quality).
Vitamin and mineral deficiencies are the breeding grounds for disease. Therefore it is very important that you supplement your food intake with “Whole Food” vitamins, minerals and enzymes. As for synthetic isolated vitamins (Vitamin B, C or ….); the human body is not designed to consume them and can’t use them effectively. For example, lycopene is one phytonutrient found in tomatoes that is well known to help prevent prostate cancer. But, in fact, if you take lycopene by itself, it’s not going to have nearly the positive effect of eating whole tomatoes or taking whole-food concentrates made from dried organic tomatoes.
Not all “Whole Food” supplements are the same. Many whole food supplements available in today’s marketplace range in quality. Companies are riding the wave of supplement popularity rather than focusing on quality.