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Are Your Vitamins Safe?

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Are your vitamins safe?

Most of us out there have heard the news. Synthetic Vitamins are not safe. Now, if you have heard this, do know why? Most of the easily accessible vitamins out there are synthetic. Man made. They are produced in a lab. Vitamins and minerals come from the foods we eat, not a petri dish. These labs create vitamins and minerals. These are not the natural ones we find in our food. Prescription drugs are created in this way. From chemical compositions which in most cases are in fact harmful to the human body. The combination of these chemicals are in a way safe for us, but only after being processed in a certain way. You wouldn't drink a bottle of bleach would you? No, it's not safe. So why would you take a pill which has many of these chemicals in them? In essence, when you take synthetic vitamins you are putting chemicals into your body. "Fake" vitamins. Man made vitamins. Not natural food source vitamins. Here is another example. Do you have jewelry with diamonds in it? Are those diamonds mined or lab created? Mined diamonds are found in nature, cut, polished, and shaped to get to the product you see in your jewelry. On the other hand, lab created diamonds are grown in a lab under strict conditions to have the same qualities as natural diamonds. These are not natural diamonds, and though they may have very similar properties, are not in fact "real" diamonds. Nor are they the same cost. Lab created diamonds are a fraction of the cost of natural diamonds. This is an easier to understand way of viewing vitamins. If you were to go out, collect all kinds of fruit and veggies, dry them, grind them, and place them in a pill, it would take more man hours, and more work to get these. Therefor science came up with a way to simplify this. They can "create" vitamins. They are making vitamins with similar properties to vitamins and minerals found in nature and making pills out them. They are not natural, cost less to make, and therefor cost less to buy. They can mass produce these vitamins at a much lower cost. More product for less money is what corporations focus on. This way they have less overhead cost. And a larger profit at the end of the year. I have heard "They just don't make 'em like they used to" in reference to nearly every aspect of consumer goods out there. Lower quality, less life expectancy of a product, more need to buy more product more frequently. Higher quality means higher price. The more pure gold is the higher the price. The better quality the car is, the higher the price. I bought a set of knives this year, my set I had bought the year before were wearing out. The ones I bought this year are Cutco. They were over $1000. The previous set I bought had started rusting after 2 months. And were no longer sharp after 3. My Cucto set has neither rusted nor needed sharping and I use them daily. They also have a lifetime warranty, the company will sharpen them for me free any time I wish, if I ever break one they replace it free. It was the best $1000 I ever spent. Now relate this to your vitamins. How much of those vitamins is your body absorbing? If you have "neon" urine, not much if any. Yes your body does take what it needs and eliminates the rest. But if you were to actually test your urine you would find nearly every bit of those vitamins have in fact passed right through you. Your body will identify these "chemicals" as waste and rid itself of them. Lets say you spend $6 a month on a once daily vitamin. Good for you, you know you need something in your diet. After 3 months of taking these you have noticed no improvements in how you feel, the way you sleep, or any of the other "promises" you received when you first tried these vitamins. And you have wasted $18. Now this may not seem like much, but after 5 years of this you have literally flushed $360 down the toilet. And filled your body with synthetic chemicals. If you were to take that $6 a month and buy 2 bags of apples you would have gotten far more nutrition and health benefits than you did from that bottle of vitamins you used. But what if you don't like fruits or veggies? You are a fast food junkie. The only lettuce you eat comes on a hamburger. Those cheap vitamins you are taking aren't doing you any good. Your fast food habits need to change or you need to take something worth while. The excuse, "I take vitamins, so it's okay I don't eat right" is not going to work. You have to take the right kind of vitamins. Whole food vitamins are the only ones that have "REAL" vitamins and minerals in them. You could eat more fruit and veggies, and still not get enough of what your body needs. The foods that are available to us today are still lacking so much of what we need. To get what your body requires from food you would quite literally have to sit in a produce section 24/7 and eat constantly. So how do you fix that issue? Take a vitamin that is useful. The Pops contain over 47 different fruits and veggies. Can you eat 47 of these a day? This is by far much more than the leading whole food vitamin, and it's in an easy to swallow capsule. Dried, and ground and placed in a capsule. All they contain is real veggies, and fruits. Nothing fake, nothing synthetic, nothing man made about them. All natural things. And you can try them for 1/2 off the regular price Dec 10-14. Really, if you eat stuff not good for you, even if you do, if you do not live in a produce department, in all likelyhood you can benefit from having more vitamins in your diet.
Real whole food vitamins, made by real people for real people.

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