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The Reality of our Nutritional State

For years, most of us, including experts in the medicine and nutrition fields, have maintained that no one needs to take nutritional supplements, in the form of vitamins or minerals, if they ate a good balance of fruits, vegetables, grains, dairy and meats. Fifty years ago this was probably true - but unfortunately not today! A thousand years ago, or even fifty years ago, before we used mass high-yield production techniques, the soilswere rich in trace elements that have been proven to be so very necessary to keep our bodies alive and healthy.Today however, most of our soils, as a result of this heavy production, can no longer provide sufficient nutrients forour needs. We fertilize with nitrogen, phosphate and potassium (NPK), which make plants grow very well, but do not contain the trace elements needed to be absorbed into our food chain.

For Optimum Health we need Mineral Supplements to provide Trace Elements: Few of us grind our own grain, grow our own fresh vegetables, or live in a climate where we have daily access to really fresh, vine ripened fruits and vegetables. we therefore have no choice but to rely on artificially ripened, processed, canned, frozen, stored and preserved foods. Vitamins are rapidly depleted during storage, cooking and processing and are rarely present in the high levels needed for our diets. It follows from this, that there is no longer a question that our foods today are vitamin deficient. (This has finally been recognized by the major health and food authorities in North America over the last few years.)

For Optimum Health a Balanced Vitamin Supplement is needed to meet Recommended (minimum) Nutritional Levels: Although generally better than most foods, even organically grown foods are not the answer. While such foods minimize our exposure to massive doses of herbicides and pesticides that challenge our bodies, pollutants are all around us. They are in our foods, our water, our air and in virtually all our man made products. Pollutants such as automobile exhaust, industrial smoke, radiation, perfumes and miscellaneous chemicals from plastics to carpet glues and much, much more pervade everything! It is no wonder that we are all suffering to one degree or another from man made degenerative diseases, such as cancers, asthma, heart disease, arthritis and others, which are often caused or initiated by free radicals - as a result of excess pollutants in our bodies.

Research throughout the world has shown that the best protection that we can have from these degenerative disease causing free radicals, is to neutralize them with antioxidants. To Neutralize Free Radicals and provide a High Degree of Protection against many Diseases, we need to take Antioxidants as part of our Regular Diet. The Usana nutritional products go a long way in overcoming today's nutritional dilemma. We are involved with this because it provides a program of preventative measures that provide the opportunity for better health for ourselves, our families and our friends. And, as opposed to most things available on the market - Usana is scientifically researched and developed, and it works.