Did You Know…?
Supplements
• Bone is a specialized tissue formed from much more than calcium alone: a variety of minerals, proteins, amino acids, and enzymes. Because bone is a living mineral structure, it has diverse nutritional needs.
Now, if milk is homogenized, pasteurized, sanitized, and sterilized, and then synthetic calcium is added back in, biophysically, we must ask the question as to whether or not our bodies can absorb this isolated calcium from inorganic sources in the form of a supplement. In truth, 50 lbs of it could not replace the amount absorbed from a single carrot.
• People us the U.S. take the highest amount of calcium supplements, yet have the highest osteoporosis rate.
• Calcium in its natural form is found in raw whole milk, sardines, salmon, broccoli, parsley, almonds, toasted sesame seeds, and yeast.
• The FDA requires all supplement manufacturers to list ingredients on the packaging, but there is no requirement guaranteeing that the supplement can and will be absorbed by the body.
• If a label says an ingredient is “natural”, “vital”, or “organic”, this still does not mean it is natural, vital, or organic.
• Vitamin companies sell tablets of 500 mg vitamin C, claiming that it is natural. But to put 500 milligrams of naturally occurring ascorbic acid into a tablet, the tablet would have to be as big as a ping-pong ball!
To say that vitamin C is ascorbic acid is simply false. The presence of all synergistic factors (the P factors, vitamin K, vitamin J, enzymes, and less known organic factors) make up the vitamin C-complex.
