HEALTH NOTES

Why Nutritional Support is Necessary

PART II

To help you understand the distinction between whole food supplements and synthetic supplements I feel it is important that you realize that many of the supplements taken today, and ones that I’ve prescribed in my practice over the years, are synthetically manufactured substances in many instances. For example, ascorbic acid, which many individuals take as a nutritional supplement for vitamin-C is in fact, not vitamin-C complex. It is one component of the vitamin-C molecule. This one component of true vitamin-C complex, is in fact the outer lining of vitamin-C complex, actually, vitamin-C complex contains many other components, such as tyrosinase and ascorbigen, all bio-flavanoid complexes, as well as numerous other factors.

Another example is vitamin-E which many of us have consumed over the years as d-Alpha tocopherol which is one component of vitamin-E complex. In nature vitamin-E complex contains delta, gamma and beta tocopherol’s, along with selenium and xanthine.

So, as you can see the vitamins that many of us are taking into our bodies are synthetically manufactured and are only a single component of a vitamin. Therefore, our bodies must find the other components or excrete this substance from our bodies. Unfortunately, these synthetic vitamins, which according to Ms. Frost have “drug like effects,” have been utilized in our society since the chemical and pharmaceutical industries have begun manufacturing them.

Proper nutrition begins with proper foods being selected and eaten, the more pure and fresh the foods, the higher the nutritional content. When I say nutritional content, I mean not only vitamins and minerals, but also enzymes and other co-factors contained within that food source.

As I have stated previously in numerous articles, proteins, carbohydrates and fats are required in our diets. Unfortunately, over the last twenty to thirty years, the low-fat fad has created a high carbohydrate society and generated, the end product we now have which is a great deal of obesity.

I have stated numerous times in the past that it is important to select the proper type of carbohydrates to take into our diets. These should have a low glycemic index. This means that they are converted into sugars very slowly in our body. Unfortunately, in our white bread society, we eat many high glycemic index foods. These are fractured into sugars, specifically glucose, very, very rapidly. Unfortunately we may also just simply take in glucose directly from our food sources. Ultra refined substances which we consume on a daily basis, which would not occur naturally in our environment, are harming our bodies everyday.

Next week I will discuss some of the foods that we should avoid.