Vitamins Vs. Whole Foods

This is very controversial, and everyone claims the right answer. They are made from nutritious whole plants and fruits, such as blueberries, cranberries, strawberries, blackberries, cherries, apricots, papaya, oranges, grapes, pineapples, plums, bilberry, seaweed, kale, spinach, wheat grass, brussels sprouts, asparagus, broccoli, beets, carrots, parsley, cabbage, cauliflower, organic mushrooms and garlic.\n\nThis isn’t to suggest that whole food vitamins can prevent or cure any disease (although there’s good evidence they do). Vitamins and multivitamins are not foods. People do not know what it really means to eat healthy. Our bodies require these specific vitamins and minerals for efficient operation, daily endurance, mental stability, and more.\n\nThis 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\nA standard cheap multivitamin is basically the fast food of the supplement world. Refined and processed foods are everywhere and many people have turned to nutritional supplements to get the important vitamins they may not be getting in the diet. Synthetic vitamins do not function like nutrients found in foods.\n\nSome big news about vitamins not working – and even causing harm – has been all over the airways recently, so I reached out to T. Colin Campbell, author of the new bestseller Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition, who has been saying as much for years.