Myth #1. Nutritional supplements are not necessary.
I get all the nutrition I need from food.

I used to believe, like millions of others, that I didn't need vitamins. I assumed I got all the nutrition I needed from my food. But, as I soon learned, eating healthy in this modern world is almost impossible. I know that sounds 6 like a strong statement. Let me explain it this way

Your body needs a precise mix of 59 nutrients daily including 13 vitamins and 22 minerals [61]  

The USDA conducted a landmark study to find out just how many of us actually eat all of these essential ingredients every day They surveyed 22,000 Americans and discovered that only 3% actually ate healthy balanced diets daily Only 3%! But that's not the real story Of the 22,000 people in this survey not a single person received all of the 10 most important vitamins and minerals on a daily basis. Not one person! And yet I hear people say almost every day , "I don't need vitamins.  I'll just eat healthy".    Now you know the truth. Almost none of us gets enough of the essential nutrients daily And that includes you.

Why is this? Almost nobody eats healthy anymore. Only 9% of us actually eat the five daily servings of fresh fruits and vegetables recommended by the National Cancer Institute. 

According to Dr. Michael Colgan:

"Until the 1940's, farmers returned essential nutrients to the soil by mulching manuring and crop rotation. At the end of World War II drug conglomerates making nitrates and phosphates for weapons were left with few buyers for their stockpiles of chemicals. They had to find new markets for their products. Earlier experiments had shown that many plants will grow on a mixture of just three minerals; nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and potassium (K).  Armed with this knowledge, war chemical manufacturers began selling NPK fertilizers to farmers at attractive prices that made traditional soil enrichment methods uneconomical By the 60's, in order to compete in the food market, almost all American farms had become totally dependent on NPK products in order to make a living Mixtures of NPK, provide three of the main minerals essential for plant health. They grow fine-looking crops with abundant yields. But your body is not a vegetable. Humans need more than nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. They need selenium, chromium, calcium, magnesium, iron, copper iodine, molybdenum, zinc, cobalt, boron and vanadium.  NPK fertilizers.. do not contain the minerals essential for human health, because they were never designed for human nutrition. As each succeeding crop grown on NPK products has depleted the soil of other essential minerals; and these minerals are no longer replaced, most produce and food animals now grown in America, have become mineral deficient..." [62]

So at best, 91% of us are not eating properly. for whatever reason.   And if this isn't had enough, most of the fresh foods we do eat are just empty shells of the nutrient hearers that nature intended them to he. A century ago, food was much more nutritious than it is today.  Back then, 97% of us were farmers.  We grew our own food just a few feet from our tables. But today only 3% of us grow our own food. Farming is run by huge farming conglomerates. And in this shift from family farms to corporate farms, three harmful things happened to our food supply: chemical fertilizers, toxic pesticides, and destructive food storage and processing techniques. [63]

For example, in 1948, a bowl of spinach used to contain about 150 milligrams of iron. But today that same bowl of spinach contains only about 2 milligrams! You'd have to eat 75 howls of spinach today to get the same mineral content of only 50 years ago.[64]

When I first read this, I was stunned! I just assumed that spinach was spinach. I had no idea that our food supply had become so seriously degraded. Did you?

Processing destroys our food!

Now, if that's not bad enough, before this deficient food even gets to your table, much of it is detoured through factories and processing plants, making it nutritionally empty.   For example, let's take peas.  Peas cooked garden-fresh lose 56% of their vitamins by serving time; but frozen peas lose 83%, and canned peas lose 94%. How about that delicious white bread? In order to make flour that can sit on store shelves without spoiling, processors remove the precious and nutritious outer layers of the wheat. In doing so, they remove most of the 22 vitamins and minerals. Then, they add back 6 vitamins and minerals in smaller amounts than they removed and call the final product "enriched". [65]

However, they don't tell you about the vital zinc that was removed, or the chromium, or the magnesium. [66]   When it comes to our food, you and I have been lied to. Many of our foods are nutritionally bankrupt.

And it only gets worse as we grow older.


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