Faulty Food and the Vitamin Scam

Do you remember your parents “shipping you” over to your grandparents house as a kid? It was usually because they were tired of you and needed a break or they had some adult activity which didn’t include you. I can recall going to my grandmother’s house just like it was yesterday. I loved spending time with her because I could get away with the stuff my mother would never let me do. I can remember saying to myself,”yeah boi” when my mom told me I was going to grandma’s house. She would cook what I wanted and allowed me to have anything I asked for, what more could a kid want? In addition to all the amenities I enjoyed at Granny’s, she also gave me vitamins! She got me hooked on those Flintstone Chewable vitamins! Do You know the ones which were in the shape of Fred and Barney? I honestly thought those things were candy and I would beg for more than one! Granny was the first person to give me something that was good for me and tasted good. It was nothing like the liver she made me eat.

Your vitamin and you

Do you take a vitamin? It would be safe to say I don’t see many adults “popping” vitamins anymore. Why? As we get older vitamins get lost in the shuffle, and we don’t think we need them anymore. There is a misconception of a “growing” body only needing vitamins and not a mature one. This is a bad mistake. Many people walk around nutritionally deficient every day as a result of their eating habits. Their are some who eat very well but through the “business” of food it becomes deficient of necessary vitamins. If you want to know what I mean, take a look at my post on FOOD INC. So what is all the fuss about if you are lacking the vitamins you need? It’s a thing called disease! When your body is not getting the nutrients it needs, you open yourself up to all kinds of illness.

Vitamin Scam

I talked about those “good ol” Flintstone vitamins, remember? I loved those things because they tasted like candy. At the time, I had no idea if the vitamin was working for me or not, because I was a kid. I can now tell you the vitamin wasn’t working for me. I can also say many of the vitamins I took as an adult weren’t working for me, until I discovered one thing. Your body cannot use a synthetic vitamin which is made in a lab. Most of the vitamins out there are synthetic and only end up in your urine and feces never to be used by your body. Your body must extract its nutrients from whole food! Isn’t the body a wonderful thing? At this point, you might want to consider getting rid of those vitamins you bought from your local retail store. You know the ones I am talking about!!!!

Correcto Ta Mundo

So what kind of vitamin should you use? A whole food supplement. The key word here is “food”. Your body can assimilate the nutrients in real food but not synthetic ones. A whole food supplement extracts the vitamins from real food  and puts it into pill form, so the body can readily use it. If you are using anything else, its a waste of money. On a different note, there are some great companies who make what I call “solo” vitamins such as vitamin a, b, c, etc. You just have to look for them and chances are they won’t be found at your local “Wally Mart”. Got an opinion, feedback? Leave me a comment by clicking above.

Darren McDuffie
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