Need for supplements
Do you still believe you can get all the nutrients you need from the food you eat?
Maybe it was possible in Grandma’s time. Then farmers used crop rotation to allow their fields to recover, and ploughed in well-rotted horse manure to fertilise the soil.
Nowadays, farmers can use synthetic fertilisers to get crop after crop from the same piece of land.
The crops suck out minerals from the soil, which the synthetic fertilisers don’t replace. They usually only contain the minerals the plants need to grow quickly, not all the minerals we need for our health.
In a report published in the South African ‘Farmer’s Weekly‘, this is what Graeme Sait, an Australian expert on soil and agriculture, had to say…
‘Alarmingly, the food produced today contains less than 20% of the nutrition found in the food consumed by our grandparents when they were children. This 80% decline represents a combination of soil demineralisation and losses due to the processing of food.’
He also found: ‘vitamin C in oranges varied from 0mg to 60mg per orange, depending on the soil mineralisation.’
Patrick Holford, in his book, ‘New Optimum Nutrition for the Mind’, reporting on the marked improvement in memory of a group of adults in Holland between 50 and 75 years of age, who were given a vitamin pill containing 800 mcg of folic acid for a period of three years, states: ‘This amount of folic acid is equivalent to eating 2,5 pounds of strawberries a day. In other words, it would appear that simply eating that mythical “well-balanced” diet may not be enough at any age if you want to maximise your mental performance.’
Various medical experts, in several articles on nutrition in the international magazine ‘Newsweek‘ don’t leave it to chance either…
Dr Dean Ornish, cardiologist, and best-selling author on health issues, said: ‘I think most people don’t get enough vitamins and minerals in their diets.’ Every day he takes a multivitamin and 3gm of fish oil.
Professor JoAnn Manson, of Harvard Medical School, takes ‘… a multivitamin and calcium - 500mg twice a day.’
Professor Bruce Ames, University of California, Berkeley, made the thought-provoking statement: ‘If you want to age faster, a good way to do it is to be short of some vitamin or mineral.’
Why take the chance?…
A great way to bridge the obvious nutritional gaps in the food available nowadays, is with GNLD’s Multi.
Multi delivers 27 important vitamin, mineral, and food factors derived from real, whole, human food. No synthetics. The long list includes selenium, chromium, and molybdenum, three important trace minerals most often processed-out of modern food.
At R104 retail (R86 for GNLD members), you can bridge your nutritional gaps for 30 days. That’s about half the cost of a fizzy drink a day.
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