People think that all vitamins are created equally. This is why fruits and vegetables are universally considered to be healthy foods by almost everyone, and refined sugar (which was rare during hunter-gatherer times, in the form of seasonal honey) causes obesity, cavities, and even diabetes. This is where well-meaning eaters so often falter in the journey towards health improvement and a trimmer waistline, entering the lifelong trend of yo-yo dieting.\n\n• Vitamin C – protects from scurvy and the symptoms that come with it – gum disease, jaundice, shortness of breath, excessive bleeding. According to health experts, eating the right combination of whole foods can provide high levels of physical fitness and dietary health.\n\nHere is my conversation with him about vitamins, whole foods, and health. So you see a whole process is lost if we eat foods that are already processed for us, like white bread, instant oats and minute rice. Certified organic whole foods are loaded with the vitamins and minerals today’s fresh foods are lacking and are packaged without additives or preservatives so those vital nutrients are retained for your consumption.\n\nSynthetic ingredients are not going to give the same healthy benefits as the whole food ingredients. They have the whole complex, unlike the unnatural vitamins. In fact, just like other synthetic vitamins, synthetic vitamin C is a fractionated vitamin. It can be difficult to eat properly in a busy world and often people will turn in the direction of nutritional supplementation to increase their chances of good health.\n\nBut when I am over the crisis, I want to learn and do everything I can to use diet and nutrition that will take me the rest of the way to health and keep me there. In the first part of the 1900’s most Americans ate a healthy, whole food diet because they had no choice.