| For most people, taking a vitamin supplement | | | | tried different measures to combat this with little |
| sounds like a good idea, when they remember or | | | | success. Air pollution, chemicals, pesticides, over |
| get around to it. It is not very high on most | | | | utilization, Steroids and growth hormones have |
| people's priority list, and that is unfortunate, | | | | radically reduced the fundamental nutrition in our |
| because it is becoming more and more unhealthy. | | | | fruits and vegetables. Here are a couple of |
| Now I know most readers are thinking how can | | | | alarming quotes from US Senate Document |
| not doing something like taking a vitamin | | | | Number 264 "No man today can eat enough fruits |
| supplement make your health situation worse? I | | | | and vegetables to supply his stomach with the |
| eat a good diet, if I have not been taking vitamins | | | | mineral salts he requires for perfect health, |
| supplements up until now and I've been doing OK, | | | | because his stomach isn't big enough to hold them! |
| why do i you think I will be less healthy in the | | | | And we are turning into big stomachs." "The |
| future? | | | | alarming fact is that foods (fruits, vegetables and |
| The simple answer is that the foods you eat are | | | | grains) now being raised on millions of acres of |
| getting less and less nutritious. A study performed | | | | land that no longer contain enough of certain |
| by the US department of agriculture, illustrated | | | | minerals are starving us ... no matter how much |
| this perfectly. In that study 100 grams of spinach | | | | of them we eat." |
| from a specific farm was processed to determine | | | | This is just one of the many reasons the modern |
| the exact amount of iron it contained. The study | | | | diet is growing more and more deficient. There |
| showed that in 1940 100 g of spinach yielded 158 | | | | are many other reasons that contribute to the |
| mg of Iron. In 1965 100 g of spinach yielded only | | | | problem. With all of this in mind, vitamin |
| 27 mg of Iron, and in 1995 100 g of spinach | | | | supplementation is no longer a luxury we can |
| yielded just 2.2 mg of Iron. This study clearly | | | | continue to put off. It is now essential to |
| demonstrates the growing problem of mineral and | | | | supplement your diet to achieve optimal health |
| vitamin depletion in the farming soil. Farmers have | | | | and vitality. |