Catie’s Whole Food Vitamin C Plus

Whole food nutrition helps to fill the gap between what we should eat and what we actually eat. This clearly demonstrates the methodology for formulating nutritional supplements to ensure that they will be transported directly to the tissues. Pharmaca carries whole food vitamins from brands like New Chapter, MegaFood, Garden of Life and Floradix. The goal of pharmaceutical supplementation has always been to preserve or improve upon the nutritional efficacy of whole foods in tablet and powder form.\n\nEven though the average American child is now much heavier, consuming more food each day, they are missing many important nutritional elements. This is in part because, though the body gets more calories from more food, it is still starved of nutrition causing one to eat even more.\n\nMost vitamin and mineral supplements are made with synthetic forms of vitamins, obtained through laboratory processes and while many believe the form and source of the vitamin doesn’t matter, the fact is that it does. Minerals and proteins like the nutrients in food supplements does not mean synthetic creations, but the primary source is derived from plant materials and that is exactly why many of them are known to contain plant based vitamins.\n\nIt becomes counterproductive to over think your nutritional and vitamin intake, but it is also unwise to ignore it. While we can live without enough of a certain vitamin for a while, in the long term a vitamin deficiency is a precursor to all sorts of health problems.\n\nFruits and vegetables contain many important nutrients which are essential for our immune system, our body’s natural defense from sickness and disease. The pills can’t provide the other nutrients found in whole foods. Little or no processing for whole food makes them not only more nutritious but with a number of health benefits.