Forget Vitamins

Nutrition enters your system at the cellular level.  Do your vitamin supplements contain the 12,000+ phytochemicals needed to feed your cells?  Phytochemicals working together synergistically allow nutrients to enter the bloodstream.  This process known as bioavailability is essential to your health and wellness.

The link between Health and Nutrition is established by eating the right kinds of foods, specifically fruits and vegetables.  There are literally thousands of these plant chemicals (researchers are still discovering and naming them) but it is important to understand the impact they have on the tiny building blocks that support our lives.

The handful (read the labels!) of isolated, fragmented vitamins often found in vitamin supplements are provided in mega-doses and may become toxic over time.  

The nutrition available in fresh, raw fruits and vegetables has been shown in numerous studies to increase the efficiency of the immune system thus preventing many ailments. 

The "catch" is a person needs 9 to 13 servings of fresh, raw fruits and vegetables each day!   

Perhaps, you're thinking you can't possibly eat that many servings of fruits and vegetables. 

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Many people have turned to organically grown fruits and vegetables.  Organic is defined in many ways to many people.  A general consensus is they are free of herbicides and pesticides.  That's a good start but what about the nutritional content? 

Current government estimates are that fruit and vegetables on average contain as little as ten to thirty per cent of the nutrition they did in the 1940's!  Surprising?  Not when you consider they are shipped thousands of miles to get to market and have to be picked early to withstand the trip.

An apple receives 80 per cent of it's nutrition during the last week it ripens on the tree but if it's picked while it's still green...

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