When I was younger, I thought that whole food vitamins were for hippies. Come to think of it, I’m not sure we had whole food vitamins back then.
It used to be that you could count on regular food…meat and potatoes, vegetables and dairy, to supply all the nutrition you needed to be healthy.
Unfortunately, things change and I’ve discovered that the world’s food supply today has never been more deficient in nutrition simply because we’re not taking proper care of our natural resources and we’re relying too much on manufactured nutrition.
Back in the day, farmers used methods like crop rotation to make sure the soil had time to rest and regenerate the nutrients within. But nowadays that’s just not possible because farmers can’t afford to let the soil rest. They have to get as much out of their farms as they can in order to make a living in this 21st century economy.
Farmers add synthetic fertilizers, pesticides and preservatives to their crops but these can make us sick and detract from the quality of our food supply even more.
For this reason, I started a few years ago to take vitamin supplements in an effort to get the nutrition I know I need. The truth is that no matter how much I eat (and I do eat a lot sometimes – lol) , I’m not getting the nutrition my body needs from the food I eat.
Some people say that the reason we are so overweight as a nation is because we are not getting what we need to get the nutrition we need so we over-eat to try to satisfy that need.
When I started to research the best vitamins to take, I found some surprising information about synthetic vitamins.
First of all. did you know that there was such a thing? Synthetic Vitamins?????
What are they, exactly? Well, vitamin makers isolate the vitamin needed from the food supply. That means they remove all the beneficial substances or phytochemicals that make the vitamin works so well in your body.
Studies done by the New England Journal of Medicine reveal a couple of interesting conclusions about taking synthetic vitamins:
Vitamin and mineral tablets or capsules are 85% indigestible (ie. the nutrition is not getting where we want it to because it can’t be absorbed by your body)
What is digested is not easily absorbed by the body (ie. what does get there isn’t being used very well)
The study authors ultimately concluded that eating whole foods is still your best bet for good nutrition, which means eating whole fruits and vegetables that still have the “life force” within.
Unfortunately, we’re back to where we started. Your body was designed to absorb vitamins and minerals from the food you eat but foods from the farm no longer contain the quality and quantity of nutrition your body requires.
After “digesting” all this information, I started looking for a quality, whole food vitamin that was affordable. I tried quite a few brands but couldn’t find anything that really worked for me.
I finally met my friend Brandi who introduced me to The Feast. It’s a whole food vitamin and mineral supplement made from nutrient-dense organic crops that are nurtured and harvested at the peak of nutrition. . .juiced and dried to preserve the nutritional integrity of the plant so that you have a vitamin that’s a 100% pure, nutrient rich, unpasteurized juice powder.
What makes it different from other Superjuices like Mona Vie or Juice Plus? First, it’s not pasteurized…it’s processed at a temperature that protects the nutrition of the fruits and vegetables that are in it. And, it’s affordable.
All you have to do to The Feast is simply add water to the powder and drink it. Or what I do is add it to one of my favorite protein drinks to make a delicious smoothie. Some people add it to yogurt.
You can try The Feast Starter Pack and get a free shaker, free samples of Beyond Berries and The Feast Supercharged along with your canister of The Feast.
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