Quotes about Isolated Nutrients from the world's top natural health / natural living authors
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 "The body cannot use, and does not accept, isolated nutrients. It requires specific combinations working together synergistically before they can be recognized as food.
Bottom line—synthetic vitamins are harmful. Tests with rats fed synthetic vitamins found that they died sooner than rats given nothing to eat.3 The synthetic, incomplete supplements stimulated the animals' systems, increasing their metabolic rates and literally causing them to "burn up" or wear out at a faster rate."- Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.) |
 "Nutraceuticals may range from isolated nutrients, dietary supplements, and diets to genetically engineered "designer" food, herbal products, and processed products, such as cereals, soups, and beverages. The increasing interest in nutraceuticals reflects the fact that consumers hear about epidemiological studies indicating that a specific diet or component of the diet is associated with a lower risk for a certain disease.
The major active nutraceutical ingredients in plants are flavonoids. The flavonoids are a group of organic molecules ubiquitously distributed in vascular plants."- Erich Grotewold, The Science of Flavonoids (Get the book.) |
 "American Journal of Clinical Nutrition* published an unusually nonreductionist study demonstrating that no one of those nutrients alone can explain the benefits of whole-grain foods: The typical reductive analysis of isolated nutrients could not explain the improved health of the whole-grain eaters.
For the study, University of Minnesota epidemiologists David R. Jacobs and Lyn M. Steffen reviewed the relevant research and found a large body of evidence that a diet rich in whole grains did in fact reduce mortality from all causes."- Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.) |
 "So isn't it perfectly reasonable to wonder whether animal-based food, and not just these isolated nutrients, causes heart disease?
Of course, no one pointed a finger at animal-based foods in general. It would have led immediately to professional isolation and ridicule (for reasons discussed in Part IV). These were contentious times in the nutritional world. A conceptual revolution was taking place, and a lot of people didn't like it. Even talking about diet was too much for many scientists."- T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health (Get the book.) "Because nutrition operates as an infinitely complex biochemical system involving thousands of chemicals and thousands of effects on your health, it makes little or no sense that isolated nutrients taken as supplements can substitute for whole foods. Supplements will not lead to long-lasting health and may cause unforeseen side effects. Furthermore, for those relying on supplements, beneficial and sustained diet change is postponed. The dangers of a Western diet cannot be overcome by consuming nutrient pills." - T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health (Get the book.) |
 "Occasionally studies show that taking isolated nutrients is harmful, as was discussed earlier regarding beta-carotene.
4. Beans, in general, not just soy, have additional anti-cancer benefits against reproductive cancers, such as breast and prostate cancer.20
Though Americans would prefer to take a pill so they could continue eating what they are accustomed to, it won't give you the protection you are looking for."- Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Eat to Live: The Revolutionary Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss (Get the book.) "It may never be possible to extract the precise symphony of nutrients found in vegetation and place it in a pill. isolated nutrients extracted from food may never offer the same level of disease-protective effects of whole natural foods, as nature "designed" them. Fruits and vegetables contain a variety of nutrients, which work in subtle synergies, and many of these nutrients cannot be isolated or extracted." - Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Eat to Live: The Revolutionary Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss (Get the book.) |
 "My advice is to stay away from isolated nutrients like single vitamins or minerals, and instead, stick to whole food complexes: products made from condensed whole foods, preferably organic foods. This is where you will get your best overall nutrition, even though the labels of these products cannot legally state what diseases these products may prevent or even reverse.
Read more about phytochemicals at: http://www.newstarget.com/phytochemicals."- Mike Adams, Grocery Warning: How to recognize and avoid the groceries that cause cancer, diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and other common diseases (Get the book.) "This focus on isolated nutrients is all part of the reductionistic approach to medicine, of course, and supplement manufacturers are guilty of the same dogmatic reasoning: they frequently manufacture and market supplements containing isolated phytochemicals that have been shown to have specific health benefits. There's nothing wrong with the intention, but it's missing the potentially much greater benefit of eating the whole food." - Mike Adams, Grocery Warning: How to recognize and avoid the groceries that cause cancer, diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and other common diseases (Get the book.) |
| "This claim can legally be made and printed on commercial products based on information studies using isolated nutrients and not whole foods, or by feeding the complete pet food to animals for several weeks to determine whether it prevents obvious disease or malnutrition. Although motivated by an interest to assure quality for the consumer, these tests ignote important nutritional issues and give both producer and consumer a false sense of knowledge and security.
Measuring a food's merit by levels of isolated nutrients tells only a partial story." - Debra Lynn Dadd, Nontoxic, Natural and Earthwise (Get the book.) |
 "As for taking vitamin supplements to help with cravings and associated nutrient deficiencies, although some advocate this approach, I do not. isolated nutrients are unnatural and can lead to chemical imbalances and other problems. Finally, the general care of your body and mind are critical as well when trying to elude the clutches of cravings and addictions of any kind. Exercise, stress reduction and quality, supportive relationships can all help in this regard.
A helpful tip for overcoming your desire for certain foods in the psychological department is to stop thinking about them."- Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C., If It's Not Food, Don't Eat It! The No-nonsense Guide to an Eating-for-Health Lifestyle (Get the book.) "Although I don't normally recommend taking isolated nutrients, this is certainly a much better choice than taking over-the-counter medications, which usually don't give you relief anyway. There is also a homeopathic remedy for detoxifying MSG available online. This is helpful for flushing out accumulated MSG from your system and reducing overall sensitivity. Everyone can benefit from increasing awareness about the problems associated with MSG and ways to avoid it; if not for themselves, then certainly for a loved one or someone else they may encounter." - Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C., If It's Not Food, Don't Eat It! The No-nonsense Guide to an Eating-for-Health Lifestyle (Get the book.) |
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