“Healthy Foods Give Vitamins and Minerals,
Not Pills!"
Can good
nutrition be put into a capsule?
No!!!Do you need to
take vitamin-mineral supplements? It depends on your
life-style choices.
- Do you skip breakfast?
- Lunch, too, sometimes?
- Do you travel a lot?
- Eat out frequently?
- Drink alcohol frequently?
- Smoke?
- Take contraceptive pills?
- Have a high-stress level, career or home life?
- Drink coffee constantly?
If you
answered yes too many of these questions, your nutritional state is
at high–risk! If you were to continue on your same life-style
course, you could possibly benefit from supplemental vitamins and
minerals. However, supplements are not the only answer.
You can remedy the situation by subtly rearranging your
life-style to include balance, wholesome meals and snacks at regular
intervals each day. It is often a simple matter of learning what to
grab and when to grab it!
You would not be
alone if you opted for a quick-fix life-style change. Sixty million
other Americans spend nearly three billion dollars a year on vitamin
and minerals pills. Sadly, this whole idea of a quick fix in a
pill is often based on a false security that goes something like
this:
- If you have a poor diet and an unhealthy life-style, you can
fill in the gaps with a pill.
- If you are under intensive stress and have no energy, just
take a vitamin to overcome the problem.
Unfortunately supplementation doesn’t ever address the real problems
or meet the real needs. It can never replace a life-style
change or self-care. Pills have little to do with the
foundations of building a healthy life-style. They concern
themselves only with the “interior decorating.”
Remember:
You Are What You
Eat!