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Consider These Facts:

- Seven out of every ten deaths in the United States are directly related to diet and lifestyle.

(1995 Statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

In 1994, the United States Congress declared that:

- There is a link between eating certain nutrients or dietary supplements and the prevention of chronic diseases such as cancer, osteoporosis, and heart disease.

- Preventive health measures including appropriate use of safe nutritional supplements will limit the incidence of chronic diseases and reduce long-term health expenditures.

(Findings of the United States Congress as listed in the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994)

   The simple fact is that our diets have changed radically within the last 50 years, with great and often harmful effects on our health. These dietary changes represent as great a threat to public health as smoking. Too much fat, too much sugar and salt, can be and are linked directly to heart disease, cancer, obesity, and stroke, among other killer diseases. In all, six of the ten leading causes of death in the United States are linked directly to our diet.

- Senator George McGovern, Dietary Goals for the United States, 1977

   There's provocative and compelling evidence that the most protective level of nutrients may be achieved through supplementation.

- Jeffrey Blumberg, Ph.D., Associate Director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture [USDA] Human Nutrition Research Center of Aging at Tufts University

   No illness which can be treated by diet should be treated by any other means.

- Moses Maimonides, 1134-1204 A.D., philosopher, jurist, and physician

   In a controlled study performed at the Shriners' Burn Trauma Center at the University of Cincinnati Medical School, patients with severe burns over 60 percent of their bodies were divided into two groups. The first received the traditional, well-balanced diet generally prescribed by physicians; the other received the same diet plus nutritional supplements. Tragically, 44 percent of the group that relied on a well-balanced diet alone died, while 100 percent of the group that took supplements survived.

   Scientists participating in the study concluded, "to our knowledge, this is the first controlled study to demonstrate what has been suspected and accepted for some time, that nutritional intervention improves survival."

(Alexander, J. W., MacMillan, B. B., Stinnett, J. D., Ogle, C. K., Bozian, R. C., Fischer, J. E., Oakes, J. B., Morris, M. J., and Krummel, R., "Beneficial effects of aggressive protein feeding in severely burned children," Annals of Surgery, 192, 505, 1980)

   In a nationwide survey of 20,000 people, not one person met the basic Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) for all ten of the vitamins and minerals analyzed, and many got less than 70 percent of the RDA for several nutrients. This is particularly significant because health experts state that individuals who consume less than 70 percent of the RDA for any single nutrient are at a definite health risk.

(U.S. Department of Agriculture Food Consumption Survey)