Why do we need whole-food nutritional supplements?

Well, the question should read: Why do we need whole-food nutrition?   Or simpler yet:  Why do we need nutrition? 

Nutrition supports living processes of our organisms.  We need it to live.  It provides us with energy and “building materials” we need to replace and replenish what we use.  To support all the needs of our bodies (or more scientifically, our organisms) we need complete, or whole-food nutrition.

Nutrition is no longer available in our commonly eaten foods.  This deficit creates often-severe health problems secondary to nutritional deficiencies.  We need whole-food nutritional supplements to make up for nutritional deficiency of foods. 

For example, in the 1940s, the amount of the vitamin C in oranges was about 50% of what it was at the turn of the century.  Now it is about 20% of what it was in 1940s.

Nutritional deficiencies are a mounting problem particularly in the countries that produce a lot of industrially processed foods.   The United States is the number one industrial power among the twenty most industrialized countries and the number thirty-seven when it comes to the health of its citizens.

To address this problem, in 1994, Congress of the United States passed the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act that justifies the need for supplementation.  In the chapter Findings the first two paragraphs read:

·         (1) improving the health status of United States citizens ranks at the top of the national priorities of the Federal Government;

·         (2) the importance of nutrition and the benefits of dietary supplements to health promotion and disease prevention have been documented increasingly in scientific studies;

·         …

Nutrition, the most important element of health, is gaining popularity coming back after decades of disregard by mainstream medicine controlled and ruled by the pharmacological industry and by the government who seems to be in the pockets of pharmacological industry.  The government, passing judgments not disturbed by the real knowledge of facts, issued a decision some time ago that ketchup is a vegetable and spent millions of dollars to study if mother’s milk is really better than Similac.  Not to say that the famous (or infamous rather) pyramid developed by the department of agriculture is responsible for destroying health of millions of Americans.

What are the industrially processed foods?  These are the foods usually grown on nutrient-depleted, artificially fertilized soils, which are processed to preserve their shelf life giving it deceptively fresh look, flavor and taste.  They are free of nutrients and enzymes. Laden with preservatives, taste enhancers and colorings, such foods have very little or no nutritional qualities and are primarily suppliers of calories and fillers that make us feel satisfied.  Artificially fertilized soils are depleted of nutrients and whatever is left in foods is removed during processing. 

Our diets based on these foods cause us to get fatter and our organs to fail (i.e. children develop juvenile diabetes and behavioral disorders among many other health problems).  Quality of our lives gets lower and waiting in line to see doctors takes more time from our days.

Do you remember the taste of grandma’s meals and cookies?  I do.  That was real food with all the vitamins, minerals, proteins, fats and any other nutritional element you could possibly think about.  We drank raw milk and never had lactose intolerance, ate raw beef as tartar steak and never got parasites.  I could go on and on.  The point I am trying to make is that millions of years of human development prepared us to benefit from the food sources available to us in their whole form, primarily raw or lightly cooked.  As we were going through the seasons we ate whatever the seasons offered and lived healthy lives.  Cancers were a rarity, Alzheimer’s disease wasn’t known, and there were no allergies, flus, colds, hot flashes and attention deficit disorders.  We were healthy; our immunity not corrupted with vaccines (mercury-laden to boot) was strong.  Our foods were our preventive medicine.  And most of the time, it was all that was needed.

Nothing has changed when it comes to the needs of our bodies even though the whole-foods so essential to our health and well-being, are no longer available if we only eat what we buy in a grocer’s store.  We need to supplement our diets. 

That is why we need the whole-food nutritional supplements.

Dr. Andre A. Kulisz

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