Whole Food Nutrition - the Facts

Whole Food Nutrition - the Facts
When we take a vitamin supplement, one of our main concerns
or questions should be about bioavailablity.
Bioavailability, in simple terms, is the rate at which the
nutrients of a vitamin supplement can be absorbed by our
bodies. If the supplement is not absorbed then our
body’s cells do not benefit from taking the
supplement. We actually flush the vitamin supplement down
the drain.

While our cells may not be able to determine the difference
between sources of molecules coming from vitamins,
minerals, and other nutrients, our digestive tract can tell
the difference between sources. Most of the vitamin
supplements in pill form are combined with compounds such
as citrates, sulfides, sulfates, chlorides, and so on.
These compounds dissolve at different rates and scientists
argue as to which of them the body absorbs more easily.
Interestingly, the benchmark to which they compare
absorption rates of these compounds is to that of a
‘whole food.’ Bottom line is that our
digestive 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. A
supplement made from a whole plant, rather than extracting
elements from it, is called a whole food supplement. A
whole food supplement is more potent than extracting
nutrients from a plant. When we leave a whole food’s
nutrients intact, we get potent nutrition from smaller
doses. Whole food supplements help our bodies’
immune system fight against heart disease, cancer,
diabetes, and other chronic illness because the whole food
provides the nutrients our bodies need in the battle
against these diseases or illnesses.

In addition to being a whole food, we want the vitamin
supplement in ionic form. Ionic means that it has the
correct ‘charge’ to be readily absorbed by our
intestinal tracts. Our intestinal tracts are charged and
food particles must have an opposite ionic charge to be
quickly absorbed into our bodies. Look for ionic in the
description of your next liquid nutritional supplement to
achieve maximum absorption rates.

Finally, a note about the Food and Drug
Administration’s (FDA) Daily Recommended Allowances
for nutrients is based on a 2,000 calorie diet. The FDA
has identified only 33 nutrients out of more than 100,000
different types of phytonutrients. How many oranges should
you eat to get the FDA daily allowance of vitamin C? How
many bananas to meet the potassium requirement? These are
trick questions. Whole foods do not have a label
indicating the FDA daily allowance because they are whole
foods – not synthetic vitamins. To put a label that
meets the FDA requirement would mean the addition of a
synthetic vitamin. And which one of us wants our whole
food from the market or our whole food supplement injected
with something artificial?

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