The Standard American Diet (SAD) is lacking in many vital nutritional components. Being largely composed of prepackaged, convenience foods with few naturally grown food products; this diet has contributed to an epidemic of not only obesity but also extreme nutritional deficiency. While many commercially available vitamin and mineral supplements exist, they are manufactured in an artificial way that reduces bioavailability and promotes chemical contamination. As Americans are not likely to return to eating home grown food directly from their garden, the solution to the nutritional deficiency of America can be found in Whole Food Supplements which are vitamin, mineral and phytonutrient rich products made from actual food concentrates.

The Problem with the Standard American Diet

In the first part of the 1900′s most Americans ate a healthy, whole food diet because they had no choice. All food was grown either by the family or obtained from immediately local sources. America in the 1900′s was a largely agrarian society with most people living in rural areas and able to grow their own food. During the last century, a massive migration to urban areas has occurred. This has meant that even if one has the desire, most people no longer have the ability to produce self grown food. Either because there is no land or because many do not know how, very few people have a garden and even fewer produce protein in the form of dairy products and animal husbandry. Read the rest of this entry »

In order to understand what the main differences are between whole food supplements and other supplements we have to first explore what is meant by whole foods. We also need to discuss what the difference is relative to foods that are not whole food.

I start with the assumption that we all know what supplements are, but just in case, let me very briefly explain. A dietary supplement is something you use to supplement the everyday foods you eat. The purpose for eating or taking a supplement is to add nutrients to your body, address a specific health issue, boost your overall immune system, boost your physical energy and there are many other reasons to use supplements. Supplements are for adding nutrition to what you already eat to support aspects of your health.

Let’s discuss what food is that is not a whole food. The simple short explanation is, some portion of available foods have been manipulated by humans. Isolated nutrients like isolated vitamins and minerals, and possibly synthetic chemicals have been added. Whole foods do not contain the complete makeup of nutrients and other natural compounds in the way they exist in nature. Read the rest of this entry »

The reason why whole food supplements have started quickly gaining popularity is because many people are finally beginning to educate themselves on the supplements they’re taking and how their bodies process them. You see, most supplements are synthetic isolates of the real vitamins and minerals that your body can’t utilize and absorb very well.

Most multivitamins and other supplements made from poor synthetic isolates have less than 50% efficacy, meaning that less than half of the vitamin is absorbed by the body, and even less is actually used by the body. The rest of it is basically waste, depending on the quality of the synthetic. It’s starting to become common knowledge that the real thing is always better than a supplement. Eating a fresh orange is pretty much always better than popping a vitamin C pill, for example. Whole food supplements aim to be as close to the natural as possible, helping your body to absorb and utilize as much of the nutritional vitamin and mineral content as possible. Even though you might find them to be more expensive, they’re also more powerful, which gives you more for your buck. A standard cheap multivitamin is basically the fast food of the supplement world. Don’t sell yourself short. Read the rest of this entry »