Article #3: Are 90% or More of the Vitamins You Take Going Down the Drain? by T.C. Fry

The above headline is from an advertisement of, all things, a vitamin ad! It goes on as follows:

THE PROBLEM WITH TODAY'S VITAMINS

"It is an undeniable fact that so-called 'natural' vitamins are not truly natural. Actually, they are made from coal tar (a 'natural' source) but are not extracted from foods as is widely believed. They are artificial and synthetic, regardless of what certain vitamin manufacturers claim.

"Because so-called "natural" vitamins and minerals are synthetic chemicals rather than nutrients, they are biologically inactive or "dead." They can benefit you only if your body is capable of performing a little miracle, namely changing their molecular structure by complexing them with the essential absorption factors and nutrient carriers. If your body fails to do that, you will receive no benefit from the so-called 'natural' vitamins and minerals you take.

"Nutrition scientists believe that your body actually rejects, excretes and wastes as much as 90% or more of the vitamin and mineral supplements you take, receiving little or no health benefits from them!"

Now when a vitamin manufacturer tells the truth about the products of others you'd expect to get the truth about his product. Right? Well, I wouldn't tell you the truth in order to hook you on another commerical comeon, would I now? I'm an honest Joe. I want you to buy my product so I tell you the truth about your wasting money on your supplements. They're worthless—you're just feeding your bowels. Is that a way to waste your money?

What this vitamin company is advertising is a "historic breakthrough" with an exclusive formula that helps you absorb their vitamins.

Are their vitamins truly natural? Absolutely not. They're synthetic, too! But your body can absorb them. Is this a reason you should buy their vitamins? No! That's a better reason for NOT buying them. You're better off with the nonabsorbable vitamins, which go mostly into the kidneys and bowels.

Why should you be better off with vitamins and minerals that you don't absorb?

Because, if you do absorb these vitamins, you'll be poisoning yourself, not nourishing yourself! Whether the supplements you take are derived from coal tar, petroleum stocks, fungal and bacterial fermentation and putrefaction or from truly natural foods, you're not getting anything you can use! Only the vitamins contained in whole natural foods will not poison you.

That you can't use vitamin supplements, even if refined from natural sources, derives from one salutary fact: vitamins are proteins except for a very few. As such they are co-enzymes that make the food you eat more available you. Nature puts her vitamins and enzymes within the context of a food package. Break down the package, according to the famed nutrition researcher, Roger Williams, and you destroy the teamwork (synergism) that nourishes you. Hence, even if the vitamins and minerals were, indeed, from natural sources, by their lonesome selves the body cannot use them! The body uses foods, not delusions!

Why not use ONLY whole foods? The only vitamins and minerals you're getting and using are from that source only regardless of what you believe—regardless of the bill of goods you've been sold by the slick propaganda from the manufacturers and peddlers.

If you eat anything other than the nutritious raw foods to which we are biologically adapted, you're cheating yourself. Of course, some of them may be grown on deficient soils but that's still the best bet you have! If they extracted vitamins from natural foods where do you think they'd get them from? Why, from the very same foods grown on deficient soils. Where else?

You destroy not only your body faculties but deny yourself vitamins and minerals a hundred times more by cooking your food, by making it partially or wholly indigestible with seasonings and condiments, by eating it with preservatives, synthetic vitamin/mineral additives, by eating it wrongly combined so that it is incompatible in digestive chemistry and befouls your digestion rather than nourishes you, by taking foods with oils (which coat foods and make them largely unavailable and indigestible), and by consuming alcoholic drinks, vinegars, etc.

Our truly natural foods eaten in a natural manner (raw) is the thin margin most of us survive on as well as we do. The true "miracle" is eating totally raw only the foods that you relish raw. This will supply your body with all the vitamins and minerals you will ever need.