Thank you for sharing, Mike. You might enjoy watching Robyn O’Brien: http://livelighter.org/real-food-crusader-inspires-change/

I used to be dead set against supplementation and believed that most of my food could hold the nutritional value I needed. I did this for quite some time and I still fully support people who live the anti supplementation life. The evidence, for me however, was simply too overwhelming. After 10 years of being an athlete and solidly against supplementation, I turned to using multi vitamins and fish oils to supplement my daily intake.

The food that is processed in the United States today is neither high quality nor treated in any way that could be considered healthy or nutritious. Our Animals live tortured lives only to be killed and ragged through piles of shit before they are slaughtered and fed to us. This has a drastic effect on the quality of the meat. Vegetables are routinely crop dusted with all kinda of pesticides and chemicals, but not to make them more nutritious and healthier. To make them grow and to make their colors more vibrant. This kind of genetic engineering has taken away for the vitamins and nutrients that were once part of those plants.

It’s still completely possible to get all your nutrients from just food, but it takes a lot of time and research and energy, that I simply don’t have anymore. And I don’t trust the government to makes the food supply any better for it’s people. The Food factories only want money.

I’ve have since felt a lot better since starting vitamins. I am more awake, more alert, i have more energy, and I am more sharp and focused.

to each their own of course, but I would say That, in this day and time, with our food supply in such danger, supplementation may not be such a bad idea.

-Two cents.

Denise, thanks for commenting. You make some very good points.

Based on the information FOR supplementation, though, I clearly see the need for it considering the damage humans have made to Nature.

Perhaps this is one of those debates that can go on forever? I guess it really comes down to an individual’s decision whether or not the benefits outweigh the costs.

Steph
Head Heath Nut

I’m firmly on the anti-supplement side. Frankly, my reasoning is simply that I am DEAD AGAINST processing food, including Pasteurization.

So, it just follows that artificially injecting food with “nutrients” goes against my grain.

And I think Vitamins are unnecessary. I do think that medicating yourself for specific issues is different than taking Daily Vitamins.

So, if you take Echinacea to help a cold go away faster, fine.

But a daily dose of vitamins, or other nutrients is unnecessary, in my opinion. and vitamins are RARELY vegetarian.

so, that’s my take!

as a side note, MILK makes me crazy…. “enriched milk” makes me feel like throwing a fit in the supermarket. Even organic milk… UGH! (and don’t even get me started on orange juice)