Vitamins vs. Whole Foods

Before heading to work each day, most Americans down a vitamin pill, now an integral part of the American diet. Yet, most people really know very little about the vitamins they are taking, they merely assume that the ingedients contained within are the answer to a better diet and their health.

So what exactly are vitamins and why are they such a necessary part of the American diet? Vitamins are derivatives from foods designed to make up for lack of nutrition that we receive from our daily diets these days. People "need" vitamins because the food they are eating is lacking basic nutrition and the true vitamins that in the past were contained within a regular diet. However, due to nutrition depleting within soil, (thus making vegetables less potent), along with the addition of processed food, sulfites and all of the wonderful additives put into food these days, by the time a plate of food is on our table, it's really lacking basic nutrition.

A healthy diet does not need to consist of food lacking nutrition, however. It may require a little lifestyle change, but by visiting a natural foods store and purchasing organic food, you have already made the first positive step towards your diet and your health. It is a fact that a diet rich in vegetables and nutrition is all that a person truly needs to maintain a healthy lifestyle and to make their system, a.k.a. body, digestive system, etc, work up to its peak performance.

Eating healthy and squeezing in time to make a new diet along with learning the process of cooking  with natural foods can be tricky, but will have its benefits. In the meantime, we are proud to offer real whole food products to add to your diet. Our Wellness Watchers Kit contains Greens First, a healthy drink mix with raw, organic, probiotic ground-down VEGETABLES to give you all of the nutrition you need for your day. And Juice Plus is also another excellent way to receive all of the vegetables you need when you're on the go, or just needing to live and eat healthier.

So why are the two above mentioned products better than vitamins? Well, to put it quite simply, they ARE vitamins, but instead of being extracted from vegetables and constructed synthetically into a pill, they are nothing but ground-down vegetables that contain all of the necessary pure vitamins you need.

So the next time your body is feeling sluggish and you feel you're lacking nutrition, try a whole food supplement as opposed to a synthetic vitamin and see how much better you feel. Come in to either one of our locations to pick up a real product that works AND will leave you feeling energized and healthy!

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