Studies Show Vitamins Don't Work: But There's a Good Alternative
A vitamin is not a food. Even when we are taught that vitamins are needed in the body for myriad health benefits, studies are continuing to show that vitamins alone are not enough. Is this confusing? Not really, if you think of vitamins as laboratory-created chemicals, if we’re talking about vitamin and multivitamin pills. But what about REAL FOODS? The fact is that vitamins WITHIN foods work differently than vitamins that have been extracted from foods, or those that have been created synthetically.
Foods contain vitamins, but also thousands of other substances that help them work, synergistically. Vitamins work, but they work because they are contained in foods. So the alternative to vitamin pills are whole food supplements. These are actual, real, whole, natural foods that have been put into tablet or powder form and used as supplements. They contain all the synergists (helper nutrients) that vitamin pills lack. That’s the difference!
A recent New York Times article stated, “The best efforts of the scientific community to prove the health benefits of vitamins keep falling short.”1
- Pope, Tara Parker, “News Keeps Getting Worse for Vitamins,” New York Times, Nov 08
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