Why should someone start taking a fruit/vegetable supplement? That's a fair question. Just what is up with the recommendations of servings of fruits and vegetables? Why are there minimum standards, and why are there optimum recommendations that are different? Let's take a look at this whole idea here.
First, 100 years ago, at the turn of the 20th century, our grandparents, great grandparents etc had a certain lifestyle. That lifestyle had more deaths from what we now consider treatable diseases such as infections from cuts and other illnesses. Now however, the death tolls for the current generation have more to do with diseases of lifestyle, meaning diseases that we bring on ourselves due to our way of living (this includes eating, resting, mental health and exercise). Now our health issues with things such as heart attacks, strokes, high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes and many cancers are significantly higher than 100 years ago. Is that because suddenly, in the span of 2 generations our genes have changed that much? I am sure you would agree that the reason is probably not found in sudden DNA changes in that short period of time.
What is different in how the older generation ate, compared to how we eat now? Well one of the easiest answers would be fast food, but let's not spend time jumping on the mega doses of McD's that we take in these days. Instead, let's look at what's missing. The former generation in general did NOT have the amount of pre-packaged foods that we have. Almost all they ate was fresh food. Recently killed meats, recently picked fruits and recently picked vegetables were the order of the day. Prepackaged dinners? Never heard of them at that point. Foods that would keep forever on our shelves? Not even a thought in their lives. Today though, those are the order of the day in our generation. How much nutritional punch do those types of foods have? None, at least none in the positive sense of the word. The nutritional punch they DO have is unhealthy, filled with preservatives (read chemicals) and the like. How many things on an ingredients list of the prepackaged foods can you no pronounce? Probably quite a few! That's a good indication that it's not a healthy substance, not real food, and quite toxic over the long haul in your life.
So that's part of the equation, we've replaced too many of the fresh, real foods in our lives with non nutritional, toxic junk, that eventually poisons our systems enough to cause early death (the current generation of children is the first expected to NOT outlive their parents in age). Fruits and vegetables are the foods filled with substances that are amazingly powerful. There are too many to name, but understand that they do things such as lower cholesterol, lower blood pressure, fight off infections, fight off cancers, fight obesity and more. Doesn't that sound like the perfect remedy for all of the diseases of lifestyle we are suffering from? Doesn't it sound better than turning to a plethora of medications (chemicals) to try to get healthy after we've begun to get ill? Wouldn't THAT be considered real HEALTH CARE vs. Sick Care?
That is what we have in the power of fruits and vegetables. Unfortunately, it is too easy to eat the other junk. It's cheaper too, but ONLY in the short run. In reality it is cheaper to stay healthy than it is to pay for sickness care, and it's cheaper for the whole nation if we are a healthier nation not depending on drugs and surgery to stay alive. Keep that in mind when comparing a frozen pizza to the ingredients you need to bake chicken, make a salad and cook up some veggies.
But even if we know it's better, it's hard to eat 5 or more fruits and veggies a day. And even so, much of the fruit and vegetables consumed may be have toxins involved due to fertilizing and pesticide spraying in the growing of them. Organic would obviously be the best choice, but that can be even more expensive (farmers markets are the best place to get locally grown organic fruits and veggies for the price). Studies show that for OPTIMUM health, to deal with all the toxins that get in our body regularly in our western culture, we need more like 8-10 multi colored and varied fruits and vegetables a day. Jeeez, the good news keeps getting harder and harder doesn't it?
That's where a fruit and vegetable supplement comes in such as the NanoGreens and NanoReds we carry at our office. In one scoop, the equivalent of 8-10 servings of ORGANIC fruits and veggies are consumed, for less than $2.00 per scoop. Double blind studies in two different colleges (the most recent at the University of Miami) show that Nanogreens produce enough healthy punch to lower the blood pressure in those with hypertension enough to be equal with a person having been put on a anti-hypertensive medication. Again, is it better to get lower your blood pressure artificially with chemicals, or would it be better to do it more naturally? I think you know the answer. Food is the best medicine we can take.
We'll have a "Go Green Day" on the greenest day of the year, St. Patricks Day (March 17) this year. Free taste testing samples will be given out that day, and all the Nano products will be discounted that day. Door prizes will be drawn for at the end of the day too. If you're in our area, make plans to stop by between 9-noon or 3-7 pm that day and experience Nanogreens or NanoReds and our Superfood Solution Shake!
www.superfoodsolution.com
Until next time, Be Well!
Dr. Bruce
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