Doing Vitamins The Whole Food Supplement Way

The future of nutritional supplements rests on the shoulders of “Whole Food Supplements.” Vitamins no longer seem to be created equal; at least that’s the claim of this new kind of vitamin supplement.

Whole food supplements are actually quite simple. Their name says it all: Supplements crafted from concentrated whole foods. Although this may seem like the way all vitamins should be made, it is actually a very different method that differs from the way that vitamin supplements are usually made.

Vitamins are naturally occurring in foods. With traditional vitamin supplements, the vitamin is extracted from the rest of the food and concentrated. Another method for creating vitamin supplements is to first use chemicals to synthesize the vitamins and then concentrate them. Whole food supplements are made differently than both these methods.

Whole food supplements retain every part of the original food that they are found in, only the food is compacted so as to concentrate the vitamins. According to the author of Whole food Nutyrition: the Missing Link in Vitamin Therapy, Vic Shayne, PhD, “Vitamins never exist in isolation, but rather within an interwoven complex of food nutrients and substances along with myriad co-factors and synergists.”

When you use a whole food supplement to get vitamin A you also get retinal, retino, retinoic acid, essential fatty acids, grass factors, carotenes (there are more than 500 carotenoids in nature), fiber, natural sugars, pigments, lipids, bioflavanoids, lipids, minerals (such as zinc and copper), and the broad spectrum of “phytochemicals” such as terpenes and isoflavones.

No matter what type of supplement you chose, vitamins are always a good thing. Choosing a vitamin source that includes all of the synergistic food properties, such as whole food supplements, may be the way of the future.

Benjamin Andrews writes, researches and blogs on the topic of the various benefits of Whole Food Supplements as well as various other issues related to natural living. To know more about Whole Food Supplements, visit HEALTHandMEdBlog and read more from Andrews.