Re: OT:Why eating healthy foods is always superior to taking extracts or other synthetic food-derived products.

[Guest guest]

Doesn't sounds OT to me at all ! Quite the opposite, I think a lot of

people need to understand that those extracts and vitamin supplements are NOT

any kind of substitute for real, whole food in any way, shape or form, except in

dire circumstances.

People who claim that our soil is so depleted that we cannot get all our

vitamins and minerals form our food are mistaken.

If you're getting a good variety of foods, and choosing nutrient dense meats

like organs and marrow, you should have NO problem fulfilling all your

nutritional needs.

There are a few exceptions and those would be Vitamins D and K2 which actually

are difficult to get. But these can be had from green pasture's cod and skate

liver oils, which are acceptable because even though we take them in the

supplementary fashion, they are whole foods.

[Guest guest]

woops forgot to add, that most(including your 'high quality' and 'organic'

brands) vitamins and extracts are produced using solvents. Very COMMON solvents

include acetone, ethanol, and kerosene.

Does that sound like something that belongs in your nutriments?

Manufacturers use all kinds of weasel words and marketing to give their products

a good name... for example, mercola's krill oil. They say cold extracted, giving

you the impression that it's raw, not highly processed and maybe even

mechanically expelled! Not so, as in the best case with krill oil it's extracted

with ethanol, in the worst case, acetone. But mercola will state, with a

straight face, that quality is his number one goal. And maybe in his eyes, a

highly refined and 'purified' product is high quality, but as far as I'm

concerned, it's garbage and could be treated as hazardous waste or fertilizer in

the best case. But certainly not fit for human consumption.