Contrary to popular belief; the vegetable and plant kingdoms provide a highly valued source of protein – the large vegetarian mammals of Africa are good advertisement for this. And in light of this, we urge you to give peas a chance. The fabled princess who...
There seems to be a new superfood hitting the natural news archives every day and like us you are probably starting to feel like the world is spinning a little too fast when deciding which superfoods you should be investing in for your health. So...
Tissue salts, also known as "cell salts" or "biochemistry salts", are the same minerals that are found in rocks; soil and naturally in the human body. This is why an imbalance of certain salts creates the potential for illness and disease and why supplementing with...
New Chapter was the first company in the world to produce a full line of whole food complexed vitamins and supplements certified to be made with organic ingredients. The company was founded with the belief that the natural purity of organic ingredients is better for people and better for the environment.
There is no doubt that you should be taking your multi-vitamins each day. Due to the decreasing quality of our soils and the increasing amount of pollutants, we are eating plenty but we are still starving and multivitamin supplements can be a great way to get the extra vitamins and minerals that are lacking in everyday foods.
The good news is that given proper natural nutrition, the human body has an amazing ability to heal itself.
However before you reach for your supplements, bear in mind that not all multivitamins are derived from natural nutritive sources like plants, fruits and vegetables. Many are synthetically-derived, laboratory simulations of real vitamins, including some common ones like vitamin C (ascorbic acid) and vitamin E (dl-tocopheryl acetate). These are the same types of "vitamins" used to enrich many processed foods, and they simply do not assimilate well into the body because they are not truly natural.
Real vitamins are the living ones derived from whole foods and that are maintained in their natural states. These contain the necessary cofactors and enzymes which help the body to process and use them, and they provide the most benefit to the body.
What You Need to Know About Isolated Compounds vs. Whole Food Supplements In a Nutshell
Supplements made with isolated nutrients are probably the least effective way to present the body with what it needs. A multivitamin with many isolated ingredients crammed into a capsule is no better. It may be tempting to think that the supplement that is best is the one that delivers the highest milligram amount of a nutrient. But the reality is that a small amount of a nutrient in whole food form is many times more effective than a large dose in isolated form. As food forms of nutrients are slowly digested and absorbed, nutrients become available to be utilized over a period of several hours. Much of the large dose of an isolated nutrient is wasted because the body can only use a small amount at one time.
Winter is a wonderful time to slow down. Lazy days spent reading in front of the fire; and leisurely walks through the parks take precedence over the constant social activity from the summer. Hot cross buns, warmed breads, soup and hot drinks take centre stage...
In 1972, on a rainy Alabama road, Mitchell May's life was changed forever when a speeding car slammed into his vehicle. The collision was so catastrophic that it took 45 minutes to free him from the wreckage. He was left with many critical injuries -...