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.

Even more of my opinions about "Fake Whole Food Vitamins"

This goes along with a post I formerly made in regards to buying vitamins. As the post regarding the Pops receiving an award points out, tablets are generally a bad idea. The reason for this being that to make a tablet stay in one piece, they must have binding agents added to them. I for one am lactose intolerant, and have no idea if I have any soy allergies. These are really not a good choice for me in either of these situations. I have also sent emails to the companies of a few of these "natural vitamin" companies. I have received no reply at all. As a consumer, I feel that these companies would be interested in answering my questions. Isn't that how they stay in business? Also many of these say they should not be taken by people with certain health issues. Diabetics, Pregnant or nursing women, the list goes on. So how would you explain that? If they are "all natural" and "organic" why would they be potentially harmful to these groups? If they are in fact made of fruits and veggies, since when are fruits and veggies bad for you? I thought the point of taking these was to help you with bad diet choices. My husband and I are trying for a baby, and I am very weary of taking something that says it's not safe for someone whom is pregnant. As far as I have seen, everything in the Pops is in fact natural. The only thing that's not is the gelatin used to make the capsule. No binding agents, no tablets. If you open them up you can literally shake out the contents. They are more of a powder form. And they smell nice. No awful taste if you don't swallow them fast enough. And the cost is almost double that of the Pops if you take the recommended 3-4 a day. You would think that one a day would be enough if they really do contain what they claim. How do you make a tablet out of a whole food anyway? And then its white? Really now, last time I checked green veggies are green. Fruits are typically a pink or purple shade. Not white.

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Another Reason to take Whole Food Vitamins

Taking vitamins and supplements by pill has long been advocated by doctors and nutritionists in the health world - particularly in the realm of natural or holistic health. Unfortunately, many people take the wrong approach to ensuring their body gets the vitamins and nutrients it needs. What many don't realize is that the human body works best when digesting whole foods that include all the important vitamins - not just the vitamin itself. Thankfully, whole food vitamins and supplements can provide a healthier and better way!

When reading that Vitamin C found in many citrus fruits and vegetables helps to boost the immune system, you might be tempted to rush out and buy the latest Vitamin C tablet at a local discount or drug store. But when taking Vitamin C as an isolated vitamin, your body is missing out on a more complex source of nutrition that is produced only through consuming whole foods. In other words, it's not just the Vitamin C that contributes to a boost in your immune system or other health benefits; it's the entire process of eating and digesting whole foods. This process can only be matched by taking whole food vitamins and supplements.

What are Whole Food Vitamins?

Whole food vitamins are just the opposite of synthetic isolated vitamins. They are high-density concentrates of real whole foods processed by drying the whole foods and turning them into a powder form, which is then encapsulated so we can take the food as a pill. Whole food supplements contain all the cofactors and micronutrients found in whole foods, thereby providing a more complex source of nutrition than the vitamin supplements created in a lab.

With more than 25,000 different micronutrients, or cofactors, being contained in whole fruits and vegetables, it's no wonder citizens in our Western society find it difficult to consume the number of nutrients needed for optimal health. And synthetic vitamin supplements simply don't meet the complex nutritional needs of the body as do whole foods. By consuming whole food vitamins, you are getting the vitamins your body needs and providing an easy way for your body to process these vitamins. In a world of fast food and processed meals, these can be a lifesaver!

The Creation Process Makes a Difference

Whole food vitamins and supplements are produced through a unique process of culturing and fermentation, which makes the nutrients more easily digestible. This process also creates even more nutrients, probiotics, and enzymes to benefit the body. Many isolated vitamin supplements or synthetic vitamins actually pull nutrients from the body while being processed. These may also cause your body to store unprocessed nutrients that cannot be absorbed properly (sometimes at toxic levels), or the unprocessed nutrients may simply be passed out of the body unused.

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Vitamins A, C and E are 'a waste of time and may even shorten your life'

Vitamins A, C and E are 'a waste of time and may even shorten your life'

So said the headline published around the world this past week:

From the newspaper article:

"Vitamins taken by around a third of the population do not extend life and may even cause premature death, according to a respected group of international scientists.

"After reviewing 67 studies involving more than 230,000 men and women, the experts say there is no convincing evidence that taking supplements of the antioxidant vitamins A, C and E can make you healthier."

We were as stunned as anyone else at the timing and impact of this huge report.

As you know from the "Are Your Vitamins Safe?" report, this is only the most recent in a growing number of studies finding that synthetic vitamins (either from a lab beaker or isolated from a plant or animal) are worthless or even risky for a significant number of people. How can this be?

Here's a big reason:

These isolated synthetic vitamins are not absorbed and utilized properly by the body.

That's because - the 'main vitamin' ingredient, (e.g. A, E, C, etc.) which is extracted by synthetic vitamin makers, does not include the chemical cousins and other ingredients that main vitamin comes with in its natural form. Apparently, the body needs these "cofactors" to absorb the main vitamin.

It's cheaper to extract just the main vitamin. Only it appears now that the resulting synthetic vitamins are useless or worse.

What's the alternative?

Today there is a new class of multis, whole food multis. They put the whole food in the supplement (minus water and fiber), rather than just the isolated main vitamin or mineral.

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Vitamin Scare

Your daily vitamin might not be the insurance you think it is.

Are you aware of big vitamin scare going around the US and UK? The staid Reader's Digest even had a cover story, "The Vitamin Hoax: 10 not to take" Feb., 2007).

Worst case: some vitamins are harmful. Best case: they do, well, nothing. So says the Reader's Digest.

Before you pop that next daily multi, check the bottle for two things:

1. Toxic ingredients.
Artificial colors: FD&C Blue #2 Lake, FD&C Red 40, etc.
Preservatives: sorbates (eg, Polysorbate 80), benzoates (eg, sodium benzoate), nitrites (eg, sodium nitrite), sulphites (eg, sulphur dioxide)

2. Are they synthetic?
Look at the names of the vitamins and minerals in the “Ingredients” listing on the label of the bottle. (You may need a magnifying glass.) A vitamin or mineral is synthetic if only its chemical and/or popular name appears, with no plant source.

E.g. from the label of a popular synthetic multivitamin seen on TV

Ingredients: Calcium Carbonate, Calcium Phosphate, Magnesium Oxide, Potassium Chloride, Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C), DL-tocopheryl acetate (Vitamin E), ALL SYNTHETIC vitamins.

Your vitamins are not synthetic if they are listed with their whole food source. For example, “Vitamin C (from camucamu fruit)” indicates that you’re getting the Vitamin C, along with the other nutrients it lives with in the whole fruit. Not just the isolated vitamin C made in a lab.

That's the reason Dr. Heidi finally designed a daily whole food multi, the Pops.

If you want a daily multi that is whole-food based, with no toxins or synthetic vitamins, go here and get some. They're not a drug, so give them a few months to test them.

If you HATE to pay shipping like I do, check the 4 month (4 boxes) "subscription" option, and you don't pay shipping.

Regardless of whether you get the whole food multis designed by Dr. Heidi or not (I've taken them for three years) please throw out any synthetic vitamins that might be doing you more harm than good.

FDA Monitoring Vitamins

....a firm is responsible for determining that the dietary supplements it manufactures or distributes are safe and that any representations or claims made about them are substantiated by adequate evidence to show that they are not false or misleading. This means that dietary supplements do not need approval from FDA before they are marketed...firm does not have to provide FDA with the evidence it relies on to substantiate safety or effectiveness before or after it markets its products.....manufacturers do not need to register themselves nor their dietary supplement products with FDA before producing or selling them......the manufacturer is responsible for establishing its own manufacturing practice guidelines to ensure that the dietary supplements it produces are safe and contain the ingredients listed on the label.....there are no provisions in the law for FDA to "approve" dietary supplements for safety or effectiveness before they reach the consumer.....The manufacturer is responsible for ensuring that the "Supplement Facts" label and ingredient list are accurate, that the dietary ingredients are safe, and that the content matches the amount declared on the label...That is directly from the FDA website, It honestly scares me.

Whole Food Nation has posted this.........

Whole Food Nation’s manufacturing facility, Garden State Nutritionals (GSN), New Jersey is FDA-licensed and certified GMP. GMP, which stands for Good Manufacturing Practices, is a certification given by the National Nutritional Foods Association (NNFA) and NSF International, two independent national nonprofit organizations that employ a uniform set of standards so that consumers can be assured that what’s on the label is also in the box, and that they are receiving pure supplements at accurate dosage levels. GSN has earned the coveted NNFA GMA 'A' rating, and is kosher-approved.

GSN has been manufacturing health supplements since 1977 and supplies diatary supplements to more than 35 countries around the world.

GSN link - http://www.gardenstatenutritionals.com/

• The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does not review or approve dietary supplements like Pop a Green™ or Pop a Purple™.
  
• The FDA instead licenses factories to manufacture dietary supplements, and issue label guidelines.
  
• Pop a Green™ and Pop a Purple™ are manufactured by an FDA-licensed factory that has met all the FDA label guidelines.
  
• These guidelines include posting the statement in the box below. (The FDA does review and approve drugs like Vioxx and Celebrex.)

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This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.

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8 healthy foods?

These 8 "Healthy" Foods Are Fakes...

Foods are found in grocers everywhere that claim to be healthy. If you read the front package it seems like real fruit, or whole grains but we have to think twice about foods that make health claims and read the ingredients - not just the BIG BOLD things on the front of the package.


Look at this list of these Fraud Foods, the ones that lead us to believe we are eating healthy.

1 Smucker’s Simply Fruit
All varieties of Smucker’s Simply Fruit contain more fruit syrup than actual fruit. And the syrup doesn’t even come from the fruit in the products’ names, but from (cheaper) apple, pineapple, or pear juice concentrate.

2 Multigrain Tostitos
A one-ounce (8 chips) serving of Multigrain Tostitos has more sugar (1 gram) than any of its “Four Wholesome Grains.”

3 Kellogg’s Special K Fruit & Yogurt
The company touts that the “ cereal combines the crunch of whole grain goodness, the smooth creaminess of yogurt and the sweet taste of berries….” Yet there is more refined rice than whole grain wheat, no berries (just dyed apple pieces), and no yogurt (just yogurt powder that is usually heat treated, killing any beneficial bacteria) in the cereal.

4 Sara Lee Fruits of the Forest Deep Dish Pie
Pie is no health food, but Sara Lee’s looks like an exception. With photos of luscious apples, rhubarb, strawberries, raspberries, and blackberries, the pie seems like a virtual cocktail of vitamin-packed fruits, “simmered in their own juices” to cut down on the added sugar. But Fruits of the Forest has more partially hydrogenated oil and sugar than any fruit except apples. The upshot: Each serving (1/9 of a pie) has 340 calories, 4 -1/2 grams of saturated fat, and 4 grams of trans! That’s half a day’s bad fat.

5 Kellogg’s Eggo Nutri- Grain Pancakes
The box boasts that these pancakes are “Made with Whole Wheat and Whole Grain,” but they consist primarily of white flour.

6 Gerber Graduates for Toddlers Juice Treats
The packaging is decorated with pictures of oranges, grapes, cherries, peaches,
and pineapples. Yet the leading ingredients are corn syrup and sugar – and the only “fruit” they contain is nutritionally poor white grape juice concentrate. These snacks are more candy than fruit juice!

7 Enviga
Coca-Cola/Nestle claims that their new drink’s combination of caffeine and an antioxidant extracted from green tea will cause people to burn more calories than the drink provides and help them control their weight. In fact, one in five people drinking Enviga burn fewer, not more, calories and long-term studies on the ingredients in Enviga show no consistent effect on weight.

8 DanActive “immunity” dairy drink
This Dannon product claims to help “strengthen your body's defenses.” But the only study Dannon did to see if drinking DanActive kept people from getting sick found that it didn’t! Source cspinet.org

From the: Whole Food And More Blog

Can't eat right? Missing your daily dose of fruits and veggies? Try the Pops, Whole Food Vitamins. Veggies and Fruit in a way you can live with.
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From Robin- About the ER Fat Burn Program

This is a post from my aunt, I thought it was great and felt I should share it, I am hoping to start the program soon myself. I share a lot of the same views, I also do not have a weight problem, am to thin in fact, but have similar issues with food.

Why the ER Fat Burn wasn't for me...

"I didn't need to lose weight. I audited the program because I wanted to make sure my ten-year-old son was eating right." -Robin.

"I was eating right, mostly plants, and no red meat, not too much fat and rarely ate sweets. (ok I thought I was eating right!)

"I did drink a lot of Alka Seltzer because my stomach was always upset. I was always bloated and couldn't get rid of the 10-year-old baby belly fat. I didn't have energy to play with my son or stay awake with my husband after our son went to sleep.

"I didn't sleep well, always woke up a few hours after falling asleep tossing and turning for hours. I didn't make a connection with how I felt and the food I ate.

"A little voice kept telling me the ER Fat Burn program wasn't for me because I don't like meat, I've never heard of kefir, can't drink milk, don't like fish or cod liver oil, and didn't know how to find or afford the foods on the ER list.

"It wasn't as hard to find the real food as I thought it would be. I've become a regular at the St. Paul Farmers Market. This is where I found pastured eggs, pastured chicken, and grass-fed beef.

"I found raw cheese, uncured bacon and ham, real butter from grass-fed cows, Himalayan salt, sprouted bread, Kombucha and many other ER foods from my local Mississippi Market co-op. It was fun foraging for these foods. I didn't have to eat things I didn't like – fish, yuck. ( I am using lemon Cod Liver oil and drinking non-homogenized whole milk)

"The best and most unexpected thing was how my 10-year-old has grasped what I've learned in the ER program and has changed the way he eats.

"He tells all his friends what we eat now and why. He's on his own mission to help get his friends off the chicken nuggets, fast food and even low-fat milk. He will only eat eggs and meat from pastured sources. He helped me make butter a while back and loves the whole milk (I admit I haven't found raw milk yet - but I will).

"It's priceless to know I'm teaching my son how food affects health. The timing was so perfect to involve him in the things I was learning from Dr. Heidi. The entire ER group has helped shape the future of my son, so Thank you all!

"Also, my family loves grass-fed beef, that's huge for my son and me, we've never been red meat eaters.

"I haven't used Alka Seltzer in 10 weeks, no more upset stomach, bloating and the baby belly fat is gone.

"I enjoy playing with my son (and husband) again. I have energy again.

"Most nights I sleep through the night. If I do wake it's not all the tossing and turning like before.

"Thank you Dr. Heidi for showing what real food is and helping my son get on the ER food plan. Maybe when he has his own family our Extreme Regime food will be normal...

Thank You Robin!!!

Day 2 of the Pops expieriment

Today was day 2 for me. I slept like a baby last night. It was heaven. I have 3 dogs in my house who seem to only sleep during the day, for once they did not keep me up. I got up today, had my 1/2 caf coffee, and a few apples, and took a purple. It was great. I have not had this much energy in a long time. I took my green about an hour ago, and have been winding down nicely. I love these!!! I have been working on my webpage all day, thats a bit frustrating, but I think I have it finally. Ready for day 3!
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Are Your Vitamins Safe?

Food Fight Round 2

Sunday, October 5, 2008

Food fight. Round two.

In Food fight. Round One, we discovered what, contrary to some people's beliefs, does not make most people fat.

Here's the second surprise from the food fight front:
What food DOES make a person fat?

One journalist spent five years looking into this full time. He reviewed tens of thousands of pages of research findings, and interviewed numerous doctors and nutrition folks. Here's his second (of nine) conclusions about what DOES make a person fat.

"2. The problem is carbohydrates in the diet, their effect on insulin secretion, and thus the hormonal regulation of homeostasis - the entire harmonic ensemble of the human body.

"9. By stimulating insulin secretion, carbohydrates make us fat and ultimately cause obesity. The fewer carbohydrates we consume, the leaner we will be." Taubes, p. 454

Before you gasp in disbelief, here's what Andrew Weil, the well known MD said about Taubes' stunning and revolutionary book on Larry King Live:

“I think this is a very important book. I’ve been recommending it to my medical colleagues and students. There are some very big ideas in this book…[Gary Taubes] has done a meticulous job of showing that many of the assumptions that are held by the conventional medical community simply rest on nothing…

"It’s very important to get these out to the medical community because a lot of the ways we try and prevent and treat obesity are based on assumptions that have no scientific evidence.”
-Dr. Weil, speaking on Larry King Live, 2008

Gary Taubes was as surprised by this conclusion as you might be right now.

[Carbs: bread, pasta, legumes, grains, cereal, chips, rice, sugar & sweets, donuts, muffins...]

"Hey," you say, "doesn't that sound like Atkins? But he's been been vilified in the professional community, hasn't he?"

Yep. Millions of people have lost weight using his approach. But Atkins today has many detractors. Here's a surprise reason...

Food fight. Round Three, next.

Posted by Kim Klaver at 12:11 AM

What does not make a person fat

Saturday, October 4, 2008

Food fight. Round One

People have been fighting for years about what foods make a person fat or slinky, sick or healthy.

Here's the latest surprise from the food fight front:
What's a food that does NOT make a person obese?

One journalist spent five years looking into this full time. He reviewed tens of thousands of pages of research findings, and interviewed numerous doctors and nutrition folks. Here's his first (of seven) conclusions about what does NOT make a person fat.

"1. Dietary fat, whether saturated or not, is not a cause of obesity, heart disease or any other chronic disease of civilization." Taubes

Dietary fats include coconut oil, the fat on a Porterhouse steak, butter and bacon. They do NOT make you fat or obese after all.

Before you gasp in disbelief, here's what Andrew Weil, the well known MD said about Taubes' stunning and revolutionary book on Larry King Live:

“I think this is a very important book. I’ve been recommending it to my medical colleagues and students. There are some very big ideas in this book…[Gary Taubes] has done a meticulous job of showing that many of the assumptions that are held by the conventional medical community simply rest on nothing…

"It’s very important to get these out to the medical community because a lot of the ways we try and prevent and treat obesity are based on assumptions that have no scientific evidence.”
-Dr. Weil, speaking on Larry King Live, 2008

Gary Taubes was as surprised by his conclusion as you might be right now.

So what, did he find, really DOES make a person fat?

Food fight. Round Two, next.
By Kim Klaver, Whole Food Nation

Are Your Vitamins Safe?

Experts Agree

Experts agree on something. Finally.

Posted on: October 16th, 2007 by Heidi Dulay

Why Veggies? Because they are a prime source of "co-factors" - the term professionals use to refer to vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and other nutrients the body needs to process food. Co-factors are crucial for absorbing nutrition from food, making fuel for energy, neutralizing stress, and aging gracefully. Even the low carb fanatics know they have to eat veggies with their meat, fish, eggs or cheese2. Otherwise, they get stuck and have bad breath. Our bodies can't break down the proteins in meats well enough without co-factors. Not only do poorly processed proteins clog us up, but they cause leaky gut - holes in the intestines that bacteria make, as they gobble up the rotting protein lodged in the intestines.

A leaky gut allows foreign substances to pass into the bloodstream and land in joints. This results in inflammation and joint pain. It causes the immune system to start misfiring and the skin to break out in unsightly acne, lesions and scabs. Sometimes, what leaks through causes toxic growths and arterial plaque. Soon, diseases emerge, like allergies, arthritis, acne, osteoporosis, lupus, even cancer and heart disease.3

Not having enough cofactors causes cravings

- the body's cries for missing nutrients. Cravings remain until the body gets what it's looking for, or becomes too exhausted to look. When we eat junk food like sugar, alcohol, any white grain (white bread, white rice, most pasta), or other refined food like soybean or corn oil, the body has to scrounge for co-factors. It steals them from bones, organs, muscles and other tissues. It does that so that it can at least use the junk food for fuel. This puts off death, but not for very long.

"But I hate veggies," people say.

"The only ones I like are French fries and ketchup. Fruit makes me fat… Do beans count?" Or, "I can't eat fruit. I’m diabetic." Or, I don't have time to cook veggies. They just rot in my fridge."

That's why we created Pop-a-Green. And its twin Pop-a-Purple. So we could pop a pill to help make up for our sins of nutrition omission… We ' re not perfect either.

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The Pops

Introducing "The Pops"™

Posted on: October 16th, 2007 by Heidi Dulay

The Pops are a dose of good nutrition in a capsule - one Purple in the morning, one Green in the afternoon or evening.

• Energizing whole food multi, Pop-A-Purple
• Relaxing whole food multi, Pop-A-Green

Promotes

• Digestion
• Elimination and detoxification
• Energy
• Better sleep
• Better skin
• Reduced stress and anxiety
• Reduced cravings
• Reduced aches and pains
• Normal cholesterol and blood pressure
• Weight loss

Whole food source of:

• Antioxidants
• Metabolic enhancers
• Digestive enzymes
• Probiotics

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Purple Pops Page

Who needs whole food multis?

Who Needs Whole-Food Multis?

• Adolescents
• Alcohol drinkers
• Athletes
• Dieters
• Drug users, prescription or recreational
• Elderly
• Health fanatics
• Junk food regulars
• Overweight and obese people
• People who supplement with specific nutrients
• Sick people
• Stressed out people
• Smokers
• Women who are pregnant, nursing, or taking oral contraceptives
• Workaholics

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Fiber is a cheap filler....

Fiber is a cheap filler...
Posted on: October 16th, 2007 by Heidi Dulay

Fiber is a good thing - if it's in food, or in a fiber supplement. It is NOT a good thing in a vitamin/mineral supplement, whether the supplement is synthetic or whole-food.

Why? Two reasons:

First, if fiber is among the ingredients in a capsule or tablet, you're getting less of the expensive ingredients (the vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, enzymes, probiotics, etc). You can buy a month's supply of fiber (psyllium husk, oat bran, wheat bran, etc.) in the bulk section of a health food store for a few dollars. A good vitamin or whole-food supplement costs way more.

The space in a capsule is best saved for precious ingredients, not wasted on cheap fillers, don't you think?

Second, fiber prevents the body from using vitamins and minerals. It can bind with vitamins and minerals and carry them right out of the body. Phyllis Balch, in the Fourth Edition of her immensely popular guide to natural health, recommends that "supplemental fiber and minerals should be taken at different times." (Prescription for Natural Healing, 2006, p. 30).

So, if you need to add fiber to what you eat, take it alone.

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What's wrong with synthetic supplements?

What’s wrong with Synthetic Supplements?
Posted on: October 16th, 2007 by Heidi Dulay

Have you heard people laugh about Americans having the most expensive urine in the world? That's because the vitamins most Americans take are synthetic, and 90% of synthetic vitamins pass through the body unabsorbed.

A synthetic vitamin or mineral is a laboratory simulation of a simple version of the real thing. In the plant, the vitamin/mineral lives with many other vitamins, minerals and nutrients - the "cofactors" the body needs to absorb and use it.

If the cofactors are missing, as they are in synthetic vitamins, the body steals them from its organs, bones, muscles and other tissue. That's why taking synthetic vitamins/minerals over time can be harmful to your health. They deplete the body of other nutrients. For example, taking synthetic calcium regularly depletes the body of magnesium.

Multivitamins - blends of synthetic vitamins and minerals - don't remedy this problem. The concentrations of the vitamins and minerals in the formulas are rarely those found naturally in the plant. And many of their cofactors are missing. Some haven't even been discovered yet!

Synthetic vitamins are super-processed. They are usually manufactured at high temperatures and contain artificial or toxic ingredients, such as dyes, preservatives, coal tars, sugars, starch, and other additives. Kind of like paint or plastics.

Why would a manufacturer of health products do this? Aren't they in business to help us improve our health? Well, marketing concerns often overtake nutritional goals. Extending shelf life, making products look or taste better, meeting machine requirements, and lowering manufacturing costs, usually take precedence over nutritional value. The resulting supplements become pretty useless to us. Some experts say that they might even be dangerous over time.

3 Studies

#1. Study using synthetic beta carotene and Vitamin E halted. (reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, 1994) 29,000 male smokers were given synthetic beta carotene and synthetic Vitamin E. The study was stopped when rates of lung cancer, heart attacks and death increased.
#2. Birth defects increased for women on synthetic supplements (reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, 1995) 22,000 pregnant women were given synthetic Vitamin A. The study was halted because birth defects increased 400%.
#3. Men get thickened arteries on synthetic supplements (reported in Reuters Health, March, 2000). Men who took 500 mg of synthetic Vitamin C daily over 18 months showed signs of thickening of the arteries.

Dr. Zoltan P. Rona, M.D., says that while a healthy person will not drop dead immediately after ingesting synthetic supplements, "the long-term consequences of continuous, daily intakes are potentially dangerous." Reactions include fatigue, memory loss, depression, insomnia and potential liver disorders.

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