What do you think? Can you get everything you need from the food you eat?

Not long ago, most doctors, nutritionists, and government agencies told us we didn't need nutritional supplements. They said we could get all of our nutrition from food. But then the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) studied the daily food and nutritional intake from a cross section of over 21,000 men, women and children. Their findings shocked them.

The USDA discovered that not one single person in the study was getting all their minimum recommended daily allowance (RDA) requirements from the foods they were eating. The RDA’s were considered to be only “adequate,” by the people who set them up. They’re the bare bones minimum nutritional amounts necessary to prevent some known deficiency diseases, such as scurvy, beriberi and rickets.

The RDA’s are not the optimum level of nutrients necessary to create buoyant, vibrant health. And yet not one single person in the study was getting even “adequate” nutrition. Adequate versus Optimum Nutrition

The RDA for vitamin E is 30 International Units (IU). Two very good sources are peanuts and brown rice, but in order to get "adequate" vitamin E from these two foods you would have to eat: at least 10 oz. of peanuts with 1,050 calories or 2 and 1 pounds of brown rice at 1,575 calories.
No way, right?

Now let’s look at the ODA for Vitamin E. Research shows in order to take advantage of the many health protective benefits of E, you should be getting between 200 and 400 IU's.

So how much food would you have to eat to get the ODA for Vitamin E? Well, I hope you’re hungry! Because to get "optimum" nutrition you’ll have to eat: a minimum of 40 cups of peanuts at 33,600 calories or 130 cups of brown rice with 91,000 calories!
Digging Deeper – How Your Food is Grown

To make matters worse, of the 26 nutrients known to be essential to human beings, only 16 are necessary for plant growth. Going for bigger profits from higher yields, modern commercial industry uses artificial fertilizers, which overlook these 10 other essential human nutrients. For example, our food has plenty of phosphorus because plants need it to grow. But plants don't need chromium or selenium to thrive, so artificial fertilizers leave out these important minerals. Therefore, most commercially grown food is deficient in chromium and selenium. And these are essential minerals for protecting against cancer, diabetes and premature aging.
So what do you think? Can you get everything you need from the food you eat?

Maybe in a textbook, lab or pristine fantasy world with pure, non-toxic, high-nutrient food, where everyone eats exactly what they're supposed to eat. But in this real world - No.
What You Can Do to Get and Stay Healthy?

Increase your intake of healthy high fiber foods. And take high quality 100% natural supplements – Alveo.

You can always look and feel your best – naturally.

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Grocery shopping part: top 10 tips for reading food labels

In an ideal world, our grocery cart is filled with an abundant amount of local organic fruits and vegetables, raw nuts, seeds and grains, maybe some wild alaskan salmon and organic animal protein. But when reality sets in, we hit the shelves looking for quick fix solutions. Packaged goods certainly have their place, but only if they contain healthy, nutritional ingredients. With so much marketing hype in supermarkets, television ads and packaging, how do you fend for yourself? Educate yourself with these 10 tips for reading food labels:

Top 10 Tips for Reading Food Labels

1. Ingredients on a label are listed from highest to lowest by weight. Items listed first are main ingredients; items listed last would be least.

2. Avoid ingredients you can’t pronounce or recognize which are likely unhealthy such as artificial preservatives, flavorings, etc.

3. Divide grams of sugar by 4 to get the amount in teaspoons per serving. Four grams of sugar is equal to one teaspoon. Most soda has about 40 grams of sugar; divided by 4 is ten teaspoons. Most fat-free, "diet" foods are also loaded with sugar.

4. Avoid foods with high levels of sodium (watch out for frozen foods, soups and sauces which can contain 700mg-3000mg). The daily recommended limit is 2300mg.

5. Look for foods with 2 grams of fiber per 100 calories. Aim for 25-40 grams of fiber a day.

6. Purchase foods that contain as few ingredients as possible.

7. Sugar or words ending in “ose”: Sucrose, fructose, etc all mean sugar (there are more than 40 different names for sugar). Look for less than 5 grams per serving.

8. Items might have several types of sugar, cane juice, sucrose, fructose, honey, etc which may not be toward the top of the ingredient list but if added together might be high.

9. “Enriched” or “wheat” flour: means white flour, which has been stripped of fiber. Look for “whole wheat” as the first ingredient.

10. Avoid foods labeled with high fructose corn syrup, trans fat ( Hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated oils also means trans fats), high levels of saturated fats, sodium nitrate (found in processed meats) and artificial sweeteners.