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Fractured or From Mother Nature |
Written by BraveHeart Woman
Thursday, 16 August 2007
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Fractured or whole food? Made in a factory or made by Mother Nature? Fractured means taken apart from the whole. Fractured means to break or to crack or to rupture. Made by Mother Nature means using the sun, the soil, the water and all the other elements that come together to produce good food for the human body. Many supplement manufacturers use an industrial process called "fracturing" in order to put a product on the market that contains a certain amount of this vitamin or that mineral. This process is designed to break apart a food into its separate nutritional components. These isolated nutrients are then re-combined with other ingredients...some of which are not fit for human consumption but do allow for quick and easy marketing....to form a pill. A pill so hard and so compact they end up in the sewage disposal plants.....completely unaltered by the human body. Or they are added to a liquid...sometimes sweetened with an artificial substance that only stresses the body....and then marketed as "nutrition." The human body utilizes nutrients in conjunction with one another. If you eat an orange you get some vitamin C but you also get many "helper" elements that "help" your body use the vitamin C. These "helper" elements and other co-enzymes and trace minerals are very necessary to enable the body to absorb the nutrient and use it to its full purpose. How can you tell if a supplement has been fractured? Look at the label. If you see a measurement attached to the name of the nutrient, for instance 75 mg of vitamin C, you can pretty well guess it has been "fractured." How else could the manufacturer guarantee the specified value of the nutrient? An orange contains about 75 mg of vitamin C. But because of the soil in which the tree was planted, the weather that happened during the growing season, the amount and quality of water used, the number of hours of sunlight and many other environmental conditions, not all oranges will contain exactly 75 mg of vitamin C. The vitamin C has not been fractured from the orange so you cannot guarantee the orange contains exactly 75 mg. If you take the vitamin C from the orange, make it into a chemical then put it into a pill...then you can guarantee 75 mg of vitamin C...but you cannot guarantee the body can use this fractured vitamin C as it would the vitamin C from the orange. Many of these fractured supplements are stressful to the body and are poorly absorbed. You may be flushing more down the sewer than the body is using. In other words you are flushing the nutrition your body needs down the sewer....and in the process you are flushing your nutritional dollars down the sewer also. If your "nutrition" has been been fractured more than likely your wallet is being "fractured" also. It is possible for Man to synthesize nutrients. However, when Mother Nature makes them an untold number of supportive phytonutrients are built in and around the entire nutrient matrix. Man-made laboratories cannot duplicate this process. Even the most sophisticated science cannot supply the innumerable "phyto" compounds that are interwoven throughout a whole-food. Even when you are getting mega doses of a nutrient...such as Vitamin C....your body may be craving the "naturally associated factors" as much, or more, than a high dose of an isolated nutrient. Fractured nutrients or whole food? We do have a choice. The human body would choose food. The body is programmed to use food. When the body gets what it needs it then has the opportunity to address its health challenges. Choose your "food" wisely. Read your labels. Let Mother Nature be your guide...not some financial enitity anxious to transfer monies from your house to theirs. Businesswoman, Friend, and Team player Gail McDowell assists Women to be success stories and inspiration to others. The fact that you are investigating the home-based business industry is a sign that you have dreams and trust in those dreams. Let me assist you: go to my website and register for the FR.EE newsletter and receive a copy of the FR.EE "Building Business Report".Visit: Be a BraveHeart Woman Article Source: http://www.ArticleBlast.com |
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