SUPER FOODS FOR IMMUNE: WHAT ABOUT SUPPLEMENTS?
“Well, eating Super Foods makes sense to me, but what about vitamins and minerals? Should I take supplements?” Some people claim that we don’t need to take vitamin and mineral supplements if we’re eating a “good” diet that supplies all the RDAs (Recommended Dietary Allowances).
Unfortunately, relatively few of us eat a “good” diet. Studies have shown that most people aren’t taking in all the RDAs. But even consuming all the RDAs won’t guarantee good health. Why? Because the RDAs are set much too low. They’re based on the dangerous either/or approach to health: you’re either sick or you’re healthy. If you don’t have scurvy or another of the classic vitamin-deficiency diseases, then you’re getting all the vitamins you need. As we’ve seen, however, the either/or approach to health is an invitation to trouble.
You don’t wake up one morning to find yourself suddenly suffering from a serious vitamin-deficiency disease. Instead, your nutrient status gradually slips from healthful to terrible, with signs and symptoms sounding warnings at each stage.
Very few of us can boast of having all the vitamins, minerals and other nutrients we need for optimum health. Most of us are lacking in several vitamins and minerals. Our body tries to tell us that something is wrong, but we don’t recognize the signs and symptoms.
I believe that problems related to lack of nutrients are relatively common. But our medical system doesn’t consider nutrient deficiencies to be a problem, not until they produce an obvious disease. Recurrent infections and personality changes, for example, simply do not qualify. So millions of people are left to suffer, wondering why they’re sick or unhappy so often. They don’t know that their problems are related to nutrient deficiencies, but they do know that they don’t feel right.
It’s only when a person has a recognizable disease that doctors begin to pay serious attention. Now the patient has a disease that can be labeled. But which disease? A lack of vitamins and minerals can prompt immune-system malfunctions that can result in any number of diseases, from the mild to the very serious.
A Note on”Diet”
The Super Food diet isn’t the type of diet you go on for two weeks or two months and then stop. It’s not a weight-loss diet that you stop when you’ve lost enough pounds, or a “health” diet you eat until you feel better. The Super Food diet is a blueprint for healthy living. It’s a game plan, a lifelong approach to keeping your “doctor within” hale and hearty. Make the Super Food diet part of your everyday life.
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