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Looking for organic vitamins? Grocery store foods are fast becoming a poor source of nutrition

June 13, 2004 by: Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews
Key concepts: food, vitamins, nutrition

It'
s becoming inreasingly clear that even if you eat right -- choosing
fruits and vegetables at your local grocery store -- you won't be
getting adequate supplies of organic vitamins and minerals. ("Organic"
means vitamins in their natural form rather than synthetic.) A report
published by the UK-based Consumer's Association found that
vitamin C levels in common grocery produce are a fraction of their
textbook values. In other words: the food isn't as nutritious as it
should be. Similar losses in other organic vitamins are also likely.
Grocery stores, it seems, put far more emphasis on visual appearance
than nutritional value. This isn't surprising, since consumers typically
select produce based almost entirely on appearance. Oranges from
Florida, for example, are frequently dipped in a red dye that gives them
a deeper, more saturated orange color preferred by consumers. The only
problem is that this orange dye has been banned by the FDA for use in
foods due to its proven cancer-causing ability. But the Florida orange
industry gets away with using the dye by claiming it's only used
outside the orange, not inside. With that strange caveat, the
FDA allows its use. The dramatic decline in measurable levels of
organic vitamins in grocery produce (the UK study mentioned above is
just one of dozens of such studies) blows away the old medical myth
that, "You can get all the nutrition you need from three square meals a
day..." or, "Nobody needs vitamin supplements to be healthy." A critical
review of the available food supply reveals that relying on it for
adequate nutrition is a life threatening mistake that inevitably
leads to chronic diseases like cancer and diabetes. The foods simply
don't have the nutrition they used to, and grocery store produce is a
poor source of organic vitamins. One solution, of course, is to
purchase and consume organic produce. Repeated tests have shown organic
produce to be far more nutritious in terms of its levels of vitamins and
minerals. Unfortunately, organic produce is more expensive and visually
less appealing than traditionally-raised produce, so most consumers
avoid it. A better solution, and the one I strongly recommend and
follow on a daily basis, is to stop thinking of the national food supply
as a source of nutrition and start supplementing your diet with
superfoods and organic vitamin supplements (whole food supplements).
This is the only way you'll get adequate nutrition. Here are
the best superfoods for this purpose: barley grass, chlorella,
spirulina, sea vegetables, wheat grass, "greens" powders, quinoa, flax
oil, extra virgin coconut oil, soy milk and tofu, green tea, amazon
herbs, and various whole food vitamin supplements. This is where a
healthy person gets their nutrition these days. Avoid all isolated
vitamins like bottles of vitamin C tablets because, after all, most of
those vitamins are synthetically produced. Instead, get all your organic
vitamins and minerals from whole food supplements and superfoods.
Interestingly, the best sources for organic vitamins are whole food
supplements that won't even list their vitamin and mineral content.
Instead, they just list the superfood ingredients like wheat grass,
chlorella, and so on. You have to know enough about nutrition to figure
out that these supplements are naturally very high in organic vitamins,
minerals, essential fatty acids and health-enhancing phytochemicals.

About the author: Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, is the editor of NaturalNews. Author of over twelve books, and fifteen hundred articles on natural health, Adams is widely considered the most prolific writer on natural health today.

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