Why you should supplement

Number 11 of 12 Eating Principles

Your healthy diet may not be enough to combat your environment

Our modern environment places all kinds of demands and stresses on the body's immune system and healthy functioning. This cannot be easily met by a healthy diet alone. But when your diet is deficient together with environmental hazards your need for supplementation increases greatly.

What is a deficient diet?

This gets a bit technical but here goes:

We do not consume enough whole unprocessed unrefined grains containing necessary grain oils for healthy cell function.
We eat bad quality protein that does not provide all 22 important amino acids for renewing and repairing our cells, manufacturing all necessary enzymes and hormones and supporting our immune systems.
Few of us consume the recommended 5 to 9 portions of fruit and vegetables daily to ensure we get enough antioxidants and immune support.
We eat a lot of food that actually inhibit the body's ability to absorb and use the nutrition that is present in our diets.

And don't forget environmental hazards

Normally we cannot escape these because:

Our air and water is full of pollutants.
Chemicals in home cleaning products, personal care products, fresh produce like fruit and vegetables are increasingly toxic.
Synthetic hormones in food like meat and milk, plus genetically modified grains, negatively impact our bodies' natural functioning.
Electronic emissions from cell phones, computers, microwaves and other electronic equipment bombard our cells daily.

What so bad about deficient diets and environmental hazards?

Well, these two combined causes:

Allergies and food intolerances: infants, tots and children with skin irritations, permanent runny noses or inflamed sinuses, stomach cramps and restless nights,
Adult illnesses are on the increase and are stalking our children: obesity, diabetes, heart disease, depression and cancer,
Behavioural problems like ADD and ADHD, bad dreams and learning difficulties,
Sterility in young boys plus early onset of puberty for girls as well as an increase in breast, prostate and other hormonal cancers.

As a mother who wants her kids to be healthy and outlive her, and a wife who wants to live long and die a ripe old age with all her faculties intact and her darling man still nearby, this makes me worry! It really looks bad!

Luckily I found a way to fight back! I will guide you too to a solution and an easy way to start.

Begin by finding where you lack the most. If you are not familiar with the healthy food pyramid, follow this link:A Healthy Diet

Then follow this link to see where you can start supplementing.

Our life styles make supplementation extremely important. Chemicals and other pollutants in our world ask more of our bodies than what our diets can provide. It is almost impossible f to sustain a 100% healthy diet all of the time. Most of us lack some part of the nutritional chain somewhere.

GNLD, AIM or another good quality range offers all the supplementation you need. This site will help you find out what you need to take and how much of it you need.

Supplementation and the food slide

Depending on where you find yourself on the food slide, you will need different kinds of supplementation. My own relationship to supplements is dynamic as my family's needs change and I become more and more aware of health and nutrition.

Check where you are on the food-slide. If you are a Super Slider, Turning Tinkerer or Halfway Hoverer, I expect you are in desperate need of a supplement plan. Do not ignore its importance. If you are a Topside Trooper or Sliding Saint, you will be aware enough to figure out what you need yourself and chances are you have a diet that makes supplementation less poignant. However, do not underestimate the effects of environmental hazards.

Wherever you are, you may want to talk about your options so contact me to chat if you like.

Petro Janse van Vuuren

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