Your body needs approximately 12 vitamins. These vitamins are contained in whole foods. Spinach does not merely contain iron. In God's wisdom, spinach contains both iron and calcium which are symbiotic but must be ingested in proper proportions to each other. Spinach contains other necessary elements:
"Spinach is a rich source of vitamin A (and lutein), vitamin C, vitamin E,
vitamin K, magnesium, manganese, folate, iron, vitamin B2, calcium, potassium,
vitamin B6, folic acid, copper, protein, phosphorus, zinc, niacin, selenium and
omega-3 fatty acids. Recently, opioid peptides called rubiscolins have
also bee found in spinach. To benefit from the folate in spinach, it is
better to steam it than to boil it."
Wikipedia
Too many people start the day with a handful of supplements and consider themselves healthy regardless of their food choices throughout the day. You cannot cover your nutritional sins by ingesting pills and choosing to drink Starbucks and Diet Coke.
Vitamins consist of two parts: the gelatinous capsule and the powdered vitamin. The gelatin capsule must enter your stomach, be broken down by stomach acids, then the vitamin must be released into the stomach, and used properly for supposed vitamin absorption to occur.
How about this instead: eat nutritionally dense foods which contain the essential elements your body needs according to how God wanted them ingested. God created dark green vegetables to include a miraculous combination of vitamins and oxygen. We are still finding out all the benefits of dark green vegetables. How does kale provide oxygen? Apart from the iron, protein (4 grams) and antioxidants, kale contains chlorophyll. Chlorophyll is what makes kale green. When you eat kale that is properly cooked to maximum enzyme capacity, the chlorophyll goes directly from your stomach into your bloodstream. Chlorophyll in the blood stream supplies oxygen to the blood and, therefore, your vital organs. A well oxygenated body cannot grow cancer.
"Antioxidants occur together naturally in foods and
evidently there is a good reason for it...One member of the natural vitamin E
family that was left out of the synthetic formulation, gamma-tocopherol, happens
to be a particularly good protector of DNA, the cell genetic code, and it has
additional cardiovascular benefits that alpha-tocopherol left out in the
synthetic formulations, but what's worse is that when one takes in large doses
of alpha-tocopherol (like 400 IU or more), it is very difficult for the body to
absorb the other natural tocopherols that are contained in the diet, because
they compete with each other. Alpha-tocopherol acts kind of like a bully
pushing around its brothers, the other natural tocopherols, so they have a very
hard time getting in the bloodstream."
Cristiana Paul, M.S.
Knockout
Suzanne Somers
There is a theory that veggies are grown in soil that has been depleted of its vitamins and therefore we must supplement our vegetable intake with vitamins in pill form. Silly! First of all, I bet the people who are worried about their vegetables being grown in weak soil are skipping the veggies entirely. Secondly, eat vegetables. What do you think? Do you feel depleted? Cucumbers make my hair grow, beets make me poop. I find no deficiencies in the vegetables I'm choosing at Whole Foods.
"But not only do antioxidant supplements fail to
protect against heart disease, stroke and cancer; they actually increase the
risk of death, according to a 2007 analysis of research on more than 232,000
people, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, as well as
other studies."
dallasnews.com
- Eggplant
- Kale
- Sweet yellow onion
- Brussels sprouts
- Red pepper
- Mango
- Grapefruit
- Beets
When was the last time you had your vitamins?
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