Calton Nutrition

Red Jasmine Rice (Khao Deng variety) is an ancient whole grain rice that is as nutritionally charged as it is colorful. Every individual’s needs are unique in terms of nutritional and supplemental support. And the fruits and vegetables they come from are organically grown, without pesticides and other harmful chemicals. The unfortunate truth is that many of us don’t eat a properly balanced diet any more, and the need for specialized pregnancy nutrition makes this even more evident.\n\nI read medical journals and double blind studies, and if the study doesn’t definitively state whether the tests were done with whole food vitamins or if they were done with synthetic vitamins I throw them out. Therefore, if we won’t consume hale and hearty foods, the body will rundown of these essential nutrients and illnesses and disorders will happen.\n\nUnlike processed foods, whole foods are not very easily stored, meaning that to eat according to such a diet, you’ll need to visit a farmer’s market and buy your food fresh every few days. A balanced formula of carotenoids such as found in whole foods and whole food supplements will be better absorbed than individual supplements as too much of any one carotenoids may inhibit the absorption of others.\n\nFor infants, there is Shaklee Baby Multivitamin & Multimineral Powder which can be easily added to water, food or juice to provide complete nutritional support in the form of children’s vitamins for both infants and toddlers. In the case of vitamins that have been isolated from their whole food sources or even created in the lab, as much as 90% of them pass directly through our bodies with no actual benefit.\n\nMost commercial Vitamin D products including prescription formulas will contain only Vitamin D2 (ergocalciferol) which is less absorbable and more difficult to use but has a longer shelf life than it’s cousin Vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol) while whole food supplements will contain significant amounts of Vitamin D3 along with many other beneficial phytonutrients in the form of whole food concentrates.