subject: Why Right Nutrition And Supplements Are Necessary [print this page] What a strange paradoxWhat a strange paradox. We all have the inborne ability to be healthy and, yet, we also have manifested choices to be terribly unhealthy.
In the last 100 years our medical time line has moved from using leeches, no sanitation, no microscopes, superstitions and infectious diseases to an antiseptic world of sanitation, miracle drugs, electronic telescopes, molecular genetics where the DNA strands of a genome can be traced and cellular degenerative disease. We can even combine different species such as splicing a fish gene with a wheat gene to grow a plant that is resistant to water damage. We can create life in a test-tube and have cloned animals as well as pondered the human cloning.
Yet after the lights are out, the lab is empty, and the diagnostic tests, drugs and surgery have played their roles, the results are the public has spent 1.6 trillion dollars on health care per year (average) Health care costs are escalating in direct medical and nursing home costs. Younger people are experiencing unheard of health problems as poor diet childhood habits mature into adulthood.
On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you evaluate the health condition and expectation for yourself as well as the people you know? 1 is poor and 10 is sensational. Five years ago, my evaluation would have been about 5 or 6. Now It's closer to 9.5 with right nutrition and supplements from Mother Nature's whole foods.
Perhaps we live longer, but what is the quality of longevity? Doctors can only write drug prescriptions when a person walks in with lupus or arthritis because there is little hope for effective treatment or cure. One out of three people will develop a cellular degenerative disease in their lifetime. This is not an outside invasion of microbes, viruses or flesh-eating bacteria. This means that our own bodies, our own cells, are "warring from within." This means there are more free radicals from various causes attacking our cells than anti-oxidants, obtained from our food, protecting them. Our own cells are not properly ingesting nutrients, eliminating waste, or neutralizing free radical damage . Over the years these multiple stages become manifested as hard-to-cure diseases.
Nutrition related diseases are manifold: heart disease, cancer, diabetes, allergies, GIT disturbances, osteoporosis, kidney problems, and various weight and eating disorders. The US Surgeon General reports that 75% of cardiovascular disease, 60% of women's cancer and 40% of men's cancers are related to diet and nutrition.
A new apparition is emerging in the 21st century---our appetite, fueled by high volume and billion dollar businesses that endorse it. "Modern diets because of food processing, storage, transport and preparation cannot provide the optimal levels of nutrients needed for health and well-being. Supplementation is the only practical answer to this growing problem." Dr. Laz Bannock
Proper nutrition then becomes the basis by which to fortify the body's cells to function properly and heal itself. Unfortunately, proper nutrition even with whole foods is seriously compromised for 3 main reasons.
(1) Degraded soil. It was decided as early as the 1930's with the advent of large farming enterprises that only three nutrients would be used as fertilizers---Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Potassium. Soil scientists argued for inclusion of more minerals but were denied by food companies because of expense. Amazingly, it was predicted more than 50 years ago that chronic degenerative disease would result with little hope for treatment
(2) Degraded sick plants. If soils are de-minearlized, then plants are de-minearlized. Plants are our only source of vitamins and minerals and they need the same nutrients in order to be ingested by living cells. Huge factory farms have depleted soil conditions as well as allowable chemical fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides.
(3) Diminished digestive system. Our eating patterns have vastly changed from raw food stuffs to manufactured name brand foods with long shelf lives. Mass production and distribution of manufactured products account for at least 50,000 food stuffs by food engineers.. Contamination in; contamination out.
The soil, the plants, the food are all interconnected. As humans, we are at the top of this vast food chain and whatever benefits or deficiencies that exist are magnified at the top.
Where are the seeds of truth buried? Have we forgotten the laws of nature are based on a balanced reciprocal relationship that applies to all environments as vast as the spaceship Earth and as miniscule as a drop of water, a grain of dirt, or a living cell? The butterfly effect is never more true on a human scale that the smallest change, inclusion or omission, can amplify effects in the body.
The human body is programmed with the inborn potential for abundant survival and regeneration of healthy strong cells, not damage or degeneration. Our biochemistry is complex with 75 trillion individual cells or miniature biochemical factories, intricately linked with every major sysytem. All cells are literally structured from what we eat and all nutrients need to be present in each and every cell. A smart, careful diet should provide all the nutrients in bioavailable form to maintain the cells' metabolic energy, growth, repair and protection against disease.
For example, the bacteria in the digestive tract can affect the cardiovascular health or auto immune defense. Just picture that one half of your nerve cells are located in your digestive systemesophagus, stomach, small and large intestines. By building your body's own natural anti-oxidant supplies, your immune system becomes your best defense against free radical stress. If our food is deficient then the cells' infrastructures will be defective, and the disease process will begin its gradual erosion---like acid rain over decades denuding an entire ecology.
Where are the seeds of truth buried? My faith is with Mother Nature's millennia old ethno-botany as the basis for nutritional healing. Phytonutrition with 14,000 natural plant phytochemicals identified to date, can provide these essential micronutrients to the body for healthy benefits.
It has also been established by many surveys that chronic degenerative diseases can be reduced by improving diet through the addition of dietary supplements. Once more, this call is your informed choice to trust a chemist and a synthetic recipe in a laboratory, or Mother Nature's synergy. I even ensure my spectrum is complete by including sea vegetables with their 70 plus unadulterated minerals.
Health, as defined by preventative wellness, is attainable by every single person. It's not rocket science, or commercial profits and it doesn't require prescriptions around every turn. Once you lose your health no amount of money will restore it.
