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Do you need nutritional supplements?

October 23rd, 2008

Health Cool Zone - Case Study

Nutritional supplements are a subject of some controversy among medical professionals.

Let’s take a look at some of the reasons you may want to add nutritional supplements to your healthy eating plan.

Case #1:
The commercial vegetable grower may not practice crop rotation, growing his green beans in the same location year after year. This causes soil depletion, robbing the crop of many valuable nutrients. The green bean that ends up on your dinner plate may not contain the vitamins and minerals a nutritional table leads you to expect. Many vitamins and minerals work in concert. If one is missing, another partner nutrient in the food may not be absorbed. There you have one case begging for nutritional supplements.
Case #2:
We have become a very busy society and we are always looking for faster ways of doing things so we turn too, fast food,frozen or canned vegetables or the ever popular budget gourmet. We think we are eating with our health in mind but in reality all we are doing is filling ourselves up and not with the proper nutrients we need.

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