Whole Food Nutrition - the Facts

Whole Food Nutrition - the FactsWhen we take a vitamin supplement, one of our main concernsor questions should be about bioavailablity. Bioavailability, in simple terms, is the rate at which thenutrients of a vitamin supplement can be absorbed by ourbodies. If the supplement is not absorbed then ourbody’s cells do not benefit from taking thesupplement. We actually flush the vitamin supplement downthe drain.
While our cells may not be able to determine the differencebetween sources of molecules coming from vitamins,minerals, and other nutrients, our digestive tract can tellthe difference between sources. Most of the vitaminsupplements in pill form are combined with compounds suchas citrates, sulfides, sulfates, chlorides, and so on. These compounds dissolve at different rates and scientistsargue as to which of them the body absorbs more easily. Interestingly, the benchmark to which they compareabsorption rates of these compounds is to that of a‘whole food.’ Bottom line is that ourdigestive tracts knows how to readily digest real food(whole food) and often has difficulty digesting synthetic(man-made) pills.
Whole foods contain hundreds of phytonutrients. Phytonutrients are nutrients that come from plants. Asupplement made from a whole plant, rather than extractingelements from it, is called a whole food supplement. Awhole food supplement is more potent than extractingnutrients from a plant. When we leave a whole food’snutrients intact, we get potent nutrition from smallerdoses. Whole food supplements help our bodies’immune system fight against heart disease, cancer,diabetes, and other chronic illness because the whole foodprovides the nutrients our bodies need in the battleagainst these diseases or illnesses.
In addition to being a whole food, we want the vitaminsupplement in ionic form. Ionic means that it has thecorrect ‘charge’ to be readily absorbed by ourintestinal tracts. Our intestinal tracts are charged andfood particles must have an opposite ionic charge to bequickly absorbed into our bodies. Look for ionic in thedescription of your next liquid nutritional supplement toachieve maximum absorption rates.
Finally, a note about the Food and DrugAdministration’s (FDA) Daily Recommended Allowancesfor nutrients is based on a 2,000 calorie diet. The FDAhas identified only 33 nutrients out of more than 100,000different types of phytonutrients. How many oranges shouldyou eat to get the FDA daily allowance of vitamin C? Howmany bananas to meet the potassium requirement? These aretrick questions. Whole foods do not have a labelindicating the FDA daily allowance because they are wholefoods – not synthetic vitamins. To put a label thatmeets the FDA requirement would mean the addition of asynthetic vitamin. And which one of us wants our wholefood from the market or our whole food supplement injectedwith something artificial?
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