What your body needs changes with your activity level, stress, emotional state and time of year. Surround yourself with healthy foods and see what your body "tells" you to eat.
Please be aware that the source of many supplements are toxic. Unless they are FULLY labeled please do not assume they are safe.Also many supplements do not absorb. Better to spend your money on organic and natural food based sources. **It is possible to get all you need in the way of basic nutrition from food.** You may have to search and store or grow some of your own. It is very easy to unbalance your vitamins and minerals with supplements. Food on the other hand is a more balanced source. Drinking 1/2 gallon of water plus or minus is very good for you, but it needs to be pure water. I use a $99 distiller from www.wholesalewaterdistillers.com even though I have pure well water. I do not want to ingest the inorganic minerals in my water. Too hard to digest and very little is actually absorbed in this form. I can make a gallon of pure water in 3-4 hours. Juicing is a good way to get supernutrition. Be cautious though with your use of fruits, they are way too sugar intensive for many people. Even fruit sugars will spike your insulin and lead to insulin resistance. Some metabolic types should avoid all fruits and sugars. www.mercola.com has some good info. Also not everyone can handle a raw foods diet, depends on your digestive function. Juices help here too, being an easily assimilated form of raw good. They are mineral rich, particularly the dark leafy greens. Soup stocks made from bones with a bit of vinegar are also mineral rich. Be sure to use organic or natural meat. The pulp from juicing can be eaten like a porridge or added to soups and sauces. You will learn the signs of depletion of certain nutrients. Mg deficiency will lead to muscle spasms and twitches. It is heavily depelted in stress as it is rapidly dumped in the sweat in repsonse to cortisol release from the adrenals. This serves the fight or flight repsonse, making muscles hard and ready. Calcium depeltion can lead to difficulty sleeping and works with Mg. Silicon, a trace mineral, potentiates the absorption and utilization of Mg and Ca. It is present in onions, best if eaten raw or lightly cooked, it is in the thin membrane between layers. Also in whole grains. Eating lots of onions makes my thin brittle nails hard, thick and fast growing. Studies have borne this out in race horses whose hoofs and bones show the results - based on studies at the U of WI and summarised in Equus December 2002. Seaweed, particularly Nori, is an excellent plant based source of minerals. High in Mg. I keep a shaker bottle on the table, it has a sort of shrimp like taste. Seeds and nuts are also nutrient dense. Stop worrying about fats, even butter is good for you! Just keep it in balance for your metabolic type and activity level. Get your body toned, muscle burns many more calories than fat, even at rest. Just some of what I have learned from the past 30 years of searching. I started out as a supplement junkie. I wasted alot of money and time. Good Luck! Garnet On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 12:03, Thora Rasmussen wrote: > I have been searching for information on our bodies requirements for > vitamins, minerals and trace minerals. The information I have so far found > has been very sketchy and conflicted. I do understand that the RDI > currently used are probably incorrect. I have been trying to find what our > body really needs, and which can be taken in larger doses. For me the ideal > would be food based, and I will adjust my diet accordingly. I truly believe > food is medicine. However, I would certainly be open to vitamins where I > would be unable to eat enough in a day. Another thing I am really looking > for is info on what happens to vitamins in the cooking, canning and freezing > process, so I can compensate properly. I am also interested in juicing, and > have found a juicer that stays cool (it won't fit the budget yet, maybe by > next fall), but I am curious about which vitamins make it through the juicer > and which end up in the pulp, and if there is a way to get the pulp into me > or does it just have to get thrown out. > > I would be interested in any info you can send me, and any links as well. > And don't worry about sending me too much info, as this is the main focus of > my spare time, and I love to read and learn. > > I will send this not to you personally and to the group, but feel free to > email me privately with info if you prefer. -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
