Its not always what it seems...

If something isn't what it appears to be, it simply isn't. I have found that an awful lot of people, organizations, companies, groups and what not, are saying one thing while doing another. Which is bad enough. However, they are also giving out information that is completely wrong in many cases.

And there is perhaps none worse than the food industry and those involved in nutrition in general. It seems that there are many who have jumped on the nutrition bandwagon mostly because it is the best game in town and with so many people consuming dreadful diets - there should be plenty to do.

However there is one problem with all of this - supplements are not a food group and some of the advice being given out is based on modern medical science which is seriously flawed at best. 

I am often asked if I take supplements and what kind would I recommend - my answer is always the same. I stopped taking them in 1997 after I realized that they were doing me no good and were only feeding the candida and other nasties inside my gut. Food means real food, not pills made in a lab somewhere. Supplements have no place in a healthy diet.

Then on the other hand I was trained and told that when you eat 3 meals a day plus 3 snacks (or more) you boost your metabolism and that your body needs to have all of this energy going in all of the time. Without a break in routine. Also that to detox meant to change the foods to include certain 'cleansing' items in the diet.

Neither of these could be further from the truth. Supplements are deadly, they are easy food for anything that is non beneficial in our bodies. And if you do not provide your digestive organs with a break from all that work, something will break down. Further to this, fasting and giving your body a good cleaning (like any machinery) improves its' function and therefore your metabolism gets better. 

This is only common sense! Well, that was my rant for the day,

Have a good one

April

Supplements In the News

Well, for those who know me, and have read my books you know that I am not a fan of supplements and I myself never take them under any circumstances. They do not feel right nor do the entire set up of taking individual nutrients sound in any way safe. There are just far too many parameters involved in the digestive process- food is the only way to achieve balance within the body systems.

This week there is a study out that gives yet another warning about this very thing- it comes after a long list of them. Every so often one scientific paper surfaces that puts some information out there in the public domain about this problem. Yet, it goes largely unnoticed by everyone as there is too much money to be made selling Big Pharma drugs to everyone- even when you think you are avoiding them! 

Anything you purchase in the form of a pill, tablet, capsule or artificial food source is in support of a false paradigm surrounding food, diet and nutrition. You cannot fulfill your nutritional needs by taking supplements- the biological pathways for uptake, distribution and assimilation of these products do not overlap into digestive pathways.

You are feeding the yeast, mold, fungus and nasty bacteria in your gut- easy, fast food, they don't even have to digest it. No wonder you feel better temporarily. But, it doesn't last as these pathogens will only want more. 

If you want to make some changes to your life, your appearance, your health and your energy- the only way to do this is with food. Real, food that you actually have to cook and then eat. Call me crazy- but that is the way the body works and has for a long time. 

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