Good Morning Team – Each of us is an experiment of one. The facts are clear.<\/p>\n
Fact One:<\/strong> Thanks to modern farming techniques – in general – today’s fruits and vegetables have much less nutritional content than the same foods we ate just 20 years ago. Estimates range from one tenth to one twentieth. Meaning the saying is now, “10 20 apples a day keeps the doctor away.<\/em>” So if we are going to “try” to get our nutrition from food we’re going to have to eat a lot more than the “recommended” amounts in order to obtain proper levels of nutrition.<\/p>\n “Uncle Sam” recommends 3 cups of fruits and veggies per day. Dr Oz recommends 12-15 servings of both per day and Dr Cooper says; “5 is fine, 9 is divine<\/em>“. (servings) (A serving is generally more than a cup)<\/p>\n Now I’ve worked from home for 14+ years and I’ve learned how to get to 5-9 servings pretty efficiently. Yet for me, 12-15 seems like having a full time job of preparing and eating fruits & vegetables. And for people who work outside the home…research shows the average adult gets 3 servings per day we can extrapolate that they’re just not making the time to eat right.<\/p>\n Therefore it makes “common sense<\/em>” that we all must take a well balanced nutritional supplement.<\/p>\n Fact Two:<\/strong> Not all supplements are created equal. There are roughly 1600 nutrition companies making products for humans. And just because a product is popular, well advertised, “cheap” or “expensive” …doesn’t mean it’s good….or bad. <\/p>\n Now the maddening part<\/strong>. Even when one has access to actual research papers and side notes….rarely does one find specifically what fruits or veggies were used in a particular study, where they were grown, what their actual nutritional content was, if there were any pesticide or fertilizer residues on them when they were eaten etc etc.<\/p>\n And when it comes to studies on specific supplements like Vit A, C, E and so forth – rarely do the papers even mention what brand was used, was it a “standardized” product, were they natural or synthetic, were they stored at proper temperatures, taken with or without food, etc etc. <\/p>\n My point;<\/strong> now you begin to understand why CNN can report this week that product X will keep you alive forever and next week they’ll report that product X causes instant cancer.<\/p>\n So we are left with each of us being an “experiment of one”. What works for one person may or may not work for another. Your Health is your first Wealth and it is your “Response-Ability”<\/p>\n Live With Intention, Good Morning Team – Each of us is an experiment of one. The facts are clear. Fact One: Thanks to modern farming techniques – in general – today’s fruits and vegetables have much less nutritional content than the same foods … Continue reading
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