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nutrition |
what you
need to know when buying nutritional supplements
why you need to
supplement your diet
why you can't depend on food alone for
essential nutrition
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Reason #1. Overfed and
Under-nourished
The rise in
consumption of fast or pre-prepared foods is flourishing. The
average Australian,
European and American is
overfed and under-nourished. Obesity is becoming commonplace.
Just
look around you.
Convenience foods are mostly high
in calories (its cheap to include fat,
sugar and starch) but low in
food value (nutrition).
This type of diet leads to "subclinical"
or marginal deficiencies that lead to vague health complaints such
as
nervousness, listlessness, recurring
minor infections,
general aches and pains, difficulty concentrating, irritability,
depression, muscle weakness,
fatigue, insomnia, and just not
feeling right.
According to a U.S. Dept. of Agriculture survey of
20,000 people,
not a single person was consuming adequate levels
of all the vitamins and minerals. In this study, the percentage
of
Americans were found to be deficient as follows:
90% in vitamin B6
75% in magnesium
68% in calcium
57% in iron
50% in vitamin A
45% in vitamin B1
41% in vitamin C
34% in vitamin B2
34% in vitamin B12....and
the list goes on. |
