| The reason why whole food supplements have | | | | raw food product. If you're in the market for a |
| started quickly gaining popularity is because many | | | | whole food supplement, look for a company with |
| people are finally beginning to educate themselves | | | | high levels of quality standards and certifications. |
| on the supplements they're taking and how their | | | | In a way I'm against whole food supplements, |
| bodies process them. You see, most supplements | | | | since in the long run, it's really better to just |
| are synthetic isolates of the real vitamins and | | | | change your habits. People love the ease of taking |
| minerals that your body can't utilize and absorb | | | | pills and multivitamins, but if they would just be |
| very well. | | | | intentional about grabbing an organic piece of raw |
| Most multivitamins and other supplements made | | | | fruit or a raw vegetable for a snack every day, |
| from poor synthetic isolates have less than 50% | | | | they could largely reduce their need for |
| efficacy, meaning that less than half of the | | | | supplements of any kind. It's really not that |
| vitamin is absorbed by the body, and even less is | | | | difficult to have some carrot sticks or raw green |
| actually used by the body. The rest of it is | | | | beans sitting in a bowl on the desk of your office. |
| basically waste, depending on the quality of the | | | | Think about how many nutrients, vitamins, and |
| synthetic. It's starting to become common | | | | minerals you could be getting into your body just |
| knowledge that the real thing is always better | | | | by changing your habits and eating a few raw |
| than a supplement. Eating a fresh orange is pretty | | | | organic fruits and vegetables at times during your |
| much always better than popping a vitamin C pill, | | | | day. |
| for example. Whole food supplements aim to be | | | | The other thing I like about this approach is the |
| as close to the natural as possible, helping your | | | | good, filling fiber you get from munching on raw |
| body to absorb and utilize as much of the | | | | vegetables throughout the day. Because raw |
| nutritional vitamin and mineral content as possible. | | | | vegetables often have lots of indigestible plant |
| Even though you might find them to be more | | | | matter, or fiber, snacking on them throughout the |
| expensive, they're also more powerful, which | | | | day greatly reduces your calorie intake. Since |
| gives you more for your buck. A standard cheap | | | | your stomach is always partially full of indigestible |
| multivitamin is basically the fast food of the | | | | plant matter, you can't fill it with as much of the |
| supplement world. Don't sell yourself short. | | | | other stuff. So essentially, by munching on whole |
| So what is a whole food, and what is a whole | | | | foods throughout the day instead of just taking |
| food supplement? A whole food is defined as a | | | | whole food supplements, you're putting yourself |
| food which is unprocessed or unrefined. Basically, | | | | on an unconscious diet plan as well. It's a win-win |
| it's a food that's in its natural state. It should be | | | | situation. |
| obvious why they absorb easier in the body, | | | | But if you really do want to try a whole food |
| because they seek to mimic the natural state of | | | | supplement, there are a few highly recommended |
| food. A whole food supplement, in most instances, | | | | ones out on the market. Like I said earlier though, |
| is nothing more than a fruit or vegetable that has | | | | just make sure you buy a whole food supplement |
| been compressed and encapsulated into a pill. In | | | | from a supplier that has high quality standards so |
| order for a supplement to truly be a whole food | | | | you can make sure you know what you're |
| supplement, it should be made from a food that | | | | getting. Don't just buy the first whole food |
| has never been cooked or processed. As you can | | | | supplement you come across. Take some time |
| imagine, this raises many quality standard issues, | | | | reading whole food supplement reviews. |
| since a lot can go wrong with mass producing a | | | | |