We are Undernourished though Overfed!

Here is a myth that nutritional supplements are not necessary, that we get all the nutrients we need from the food we eat. Your body needs a precise mix of 59 nutrients daily, including 13 vitamins and 22 minerals. The USDA surveyed 22,000 Americans and discovered that only 3% actually ate healthily.

Of the 22,000 people in the survey, not a single person received all of the 10 most important vitamins and minerals on a daily basis. Not one person! Yet I hear people say almost every day, “You don’t need nutritional supplements. You just need to eat healthily.”

The facts are that until the 1940’s, farmers returned essential nutrients to the soil by mulching, manuring and crop rotation. At the end of World War 2, chemical companies making nitrates and phosphates for weapons were left with few buyers for their products.

Early experiments had shown that many plants will grow on a mixture of just three minerals, nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and potassium (K). Armed with this knowledge, war chemical manufacturers began selling NPK fertilizers to farmers at attractive prices that made traditional soil enrichment methods uneconomical.

Mixtures of NPK helped grow fine looking crops with abundant yields. But your body is not a vegetable. Humans need more than nitrogen, phosphorus & potassium. They need selenium, chromium, calcium, magnesium, iron, copper, iodine, molybdenum, zinc, cobalt, boron and vanadium.

NPK fertilizers do not contain the minerals essential for human health, because they were never designed for human nutrition. For example, in 1948, a bowl of spinach used to contain about 150 milligrams of minerals! You’d have to eat 75 bowls of spinach (vegetable leaf/ sag) today to get the same mineral content of only 50 years ago.

Processing also has a destructive effect on our food. For example let’s take peas. Peas cooked garden-fresh lose 56% of their vitamins by serving time, but frozen peas lose 94%.

How about that delicious white bread? In order to make flour that can sit on store shelves without spoiling, processors remove the precious and nutritious outer layer of the wheat. In doing so they remove most of the 22 vitamins and minerals.

You and I are literally starving to death!. Let’s go back in time a few hundred years….. “Well-fed” sailors also ’starved to death’ of a disease called scurvy. What caused this disease? It was caused by a simple deficiency of vitamin C.

What is the scurvy of today? It is heart disease and cancer and the other deadly seven. Our immune systems are weakened because we are deficient in the essential vitamins and minerals.

We are overfed and undernourished.

Yesterday a friend of mine went to see his osteopath for his regular back ’service’. They said that his soft tissue, his ligaments and muscle fibres, plus his cartilage, belonged to a man in his late twenties or early thirties, yet he will be fifty this year :)

He puts it down to me drinking Forever’s Aloe Vera Gelfor 17 years, and Forever Freedom for 9 years. Plus he takes most of Foerver’s supplements, including Forever HA every day.

Don’t leave your health to chance. Whatever you do, take our wonderful Aloe Gel or Freedom every day, and as many supplements as you can afford.

It’s not worth gambling with your health or allowing yourself to develop a debilitating condition like osteoarthritis which will reduce your quality of life.

Take control of your health today, and tell everyone you know about our products so they can do the same.