Can Natural Health Supplements Supply Benefits Not Attained From Eating Traditional Foods?

Not at all. Quite frankly, nutritional Supplements harvest their ingredients from food , herbs and other edibles. I endeavor to make a case that our traditional foods are devoid of nutrients necessary to sustain ideal health with minimal disease occurrence. Society’s development and advancement are not without risks. And while we celebrate the pace of technological advancement, we must, as well, deal with the resulting imbalances of requiring more and more concentrated use of the earth’s resources. Urbanization has necessitated the strategy of food mass production by mega-project farming. Technological improvements along with mega-project farming have fostered the widespread use of standard plant nutrient obtained in the form of NPK (nitrogen, phosphorous and potash) fertilizer leading to productivity increases. The use of pesticides facilitates productivity increase as well. But these productivity increases come at the expense of farm-land that becomes more and more devoid of trace minerals and beneficial soil organisms. This imbalance is compounded by the environmental pollution that is the result of large scale production, essential for the consumption demand driven by mass populations.

Declining quality of food due to mega-project farming with extensive mono-cultures degrades the nutrient component of our foods. Mass production of food crops for mass consumption has led to lower nutrient density within food crops. The food crops can only get from the soil what is put in by chemicals. The secondary organic process of soil aeration and amelioration by beneficial organisms is curtailed by the action of pesticides used in the production process.

Modern-day food staple such as grains, are shallow rooting annual plants, often grown year in, and year out, on the same patch of land with the aid of fertilizer and pesticides. They are markedly deficient in trace minerals and for a great number of people, they function as an anti-nutrient.

With our food lacking in vital nutrients or having a lower nutrient density, it creates a nutritional imbalance that generates the need for remediation with natural health supplements to restore the nutrient balance for healthy living.

In a world where our food is devoid of beneficial nutrients, we must harness proactive efforts for sustaining our health and well-being.

The foods we eat today are quite different from the foods our ancestors ate. Prior to the advent of agriculture, humans relied on hunting and gathering for their daily sustenance. They foraged for berries, fruits, nuts and other plants. They hunted and fished in the wild. There were no tended gardens, nor were there other forms of domestication for plants or animals. We owe major elements of the evolution of the Western diet to the industrial revolution. Our diet was supplemented with mass produced ingredients such as: sucrose, feedlot produced meats, refined vegetable oils, high fructose corn syrup (hfcs) and other byproducts harmful to our health.

As these ingredients displaced minimally processed, wild plant and animal food, they adversely altered the balance of our nutritional intake. An imbalance in our nutritional makeup manifests in the form of various maladies and diseases, giving rise to the need to fix this imbalance.

The Emerging Role for Natural Health Supplements. Supplements provide restorative nutrients thus remedying the imbalance supplied to the body in the form of declining food quality.

Natural health supplements for everyone is available in the form of Vitamins, Minerals, Essential Fatty Acids, Anti-oxidants and other nutrients. Supplementation can provide the benefits of: • boosting immunity, • removing toxins • boosting intestinal flora diversity, • quenching inflammation, • protecting the heart, • improving sexual health, • reducing free radicals, • rejuvenating major organs, • enhancing memory, • normalizing cholesterol levels, • Slowing the aging process and more.

The production of natural health supplements rely on the GMP (good manufacturing practices) processes and standards where stringent testing is carried out at the individual ingredient stage and again at finished product stage with issuance of certificate of analysis upon confirmation of contamination-free product.

Supplements benefit from the synergy in the combining of ingredients, rendering the resulting combination more potent than equivalent quantity of individual ingredients. These positive interactions of each ingredient enhance the effectiveness by providing the body with optimum ingredients designed to accomplish the objective of the supplement.