Whole Foods or Chemical Isolates? What’s in Your Cupboard?

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Whole Foods or Chemical Isolates?

What’s in Your Cupboard?

Your choice affects your health and your wealth!

Many of us are already investing in our health by shopping at a health food store or farmer’s market.   We believe we’re buying quality vitamins and health supplements.  But are we?  Could these also be substitutes that are weakening our health?

Millions of people around the world are choosing to get their vitamins from whole foods. Why do they choose to eat an orange rather than 1,000 mg of Vitamin C? Because they know that most bottled vitamins are chemical isolates. What is a chemical isolate? It is a single element that had been isolated from its natural complex environment. 

Dr. Wayne Dyer was a member of the World Hunger Council and shared that this organization created a chemically manufactured wheat. Under a microscope, their laboratory creation is chemically identical to real wheat. BUT there’s a big difference: when put in the ground, it won’t grow. What’s missing, according to Dr. Dyer, is intelligence, or life force!

Natural vitamin C is a complex mixture of ascorbic acid along with 4 other nutrients.  When you eat it in its natural form, like an orange, your body easily assimilates 100% of it’s life force. But when you consume 1,000 mg of ascorbic acid, you’re missing the other 4 nutrients – it’s an isolated chemical!  It lacks the synergy of life force! Because your body only assimilates about 20%, the other 80% gets dumped – and that’s a waste of your hard-earned money down the commode! 

For your body to benefit from vitamin C, you need the synergy of all 5 components, not just ascorbic acid.  You’ll experience superior health by eating oranges, broccoli and other whole foods that contain ALL the elements of vitamin C that has life energy in it.    

There is one other danger with chemical isolates: they often create side effects.   For example, aspirin is a chemical isolate that was synthesized in 1897 by an employee of Frederick Bayer. It was extracted from the bark of white willow trees.  The chemical isolate, aspirin, creates side effects like stomach ulcers and tinnitus. The herb that reduces pain, white willow bark, has no side effects because of the synergy of all the other elements in the bark.

The second danger with choosing chemical isolates is that the body becomes dependent on them. Chemical isolates are substitutes—giving the body a chemical from an outside source that it should be producing itself. They don’t repair the imbalance nor do they empower the body to repair itself.

How can you tell the difference?

By reading the labels on your vitamins. Here’s an example of what to look for:


 

 






Notice that the Vitamin C label on left has plants listed in the ingredient section (green tea, citrus, licorice root, rosehips) and the ‘mg’ is low. The product on the right is the chemical isolate because of the high ‘mg’ # and no foods are listed as ingredients!   

Definitions:

Whole Food: a food or herb that has NOT been altered from its natural state and NO nutrients removed.   Example: brown rice, honey, rosemary

Processed Food: a food that has been changed through some form of processing (grinding, pureeing, cooking, etc), but has not had any nutritional components removed.  Example: brown rice flour

Refined Food: a food that has had parts removed, leaving it with less nutrients than when it was whole.  Example: white rice, white flour, white sugar

Chemical Isolate: a chemical that has been isolated from its original natural complex environment    Example: ascorbic acid, aspirin

Now that you know the difference, which are you going to choose to consume?

 

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