Are Nutritional Supplements Necessary?

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I wonder how many times you have heard this objection:
"Oh, we don't need to take extra vitamins and minerals, we eat good nutritious food all the time."
Or:
"My doctor says we get all the vitamins and minerals we need from our diet and supplements are a waste of money."nn~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~

This is the time to point out that achieving a good diet is no longer as simple as it sounds. Eating the right foods no longer ensures us of proper health because of toxins contaminating the earth's food supply. The typical American diet of the past few decades has increasingly included more processed and contaminated foods than ever before. At the same time, Americans now suffer from more degenerative diseases than ever before in our history. There must be a reason for this.

The 1988 Surgeon General's Report on Nutrition and Health acknowledged:
"What we eat may affect our risk for several of the leading causes of death for Americans, notably, the degenerative diseases such as: Atherosclerosis; coronary heart disease; strokes; diabetes; and some types of cancer.

These disorders, together, now account for more than two-thirds of all deaths in the United States." That is quite an acknowledgment for the Surgeon General's office to make. I bring this to your attention because it is my belief that the more you know about this subject, the more of a blessing you're going to be to the people with whom you speak. The average American family is simply unaware of the health consequences of an improper diet. This is just part of the blessing nutritional supplements can bring to the people you contact. Armed with this kind of information is just the first reason why you are going to be so beneficial to the general public.

The second reason is For-Mor International and the quality of products we have to offer to an ailing society. It is important for you to know that for decades, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other government agencies have allowed the multibillion-dollar food industry to grow and process its products with hundreds of questionably safe chemicals such as pesticides, industrial pollutants, dyes, stabilizers, and preservatives, as well as antibiotics, hormones and other drugs given to animals. Many expert now believe that lifetime ingestion of these chemicals can play a major role in causing cancer, neurotoxicity (destruction of nerve tissue by toxic substances), birth defects, decreased immune function, food allergies, and chemical sensitivity. It is indeed a sad state of affairs when we have come to accept increasing levels of chronic disease as normal to our society, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary that the majority of these diseases are preventable! n