you won't go to the mountain, so.........

[Guest guest]

I've brought part of the mountain to you:

" .......B12 provides us with a good illustration of this. We are often told that

vegans need to supplement B12 because plant foods do not provide it. Yet roughly

95% of all individuals who are diagnosed with B12 deficiencies are meat eaters.

Acid-forming foods like meat and dairy products inhibit the stomach's ability to

create the catalyst (called " intrinsic factor " ) that B12 requires to perform its

function. The issue is not that sufficient B12 is not being ingested, it's that

the body is unable to use it because of excesses in the diet.

Additionally, it should be remembered among raw fooders that deficiencies are

always gauged against standards that are established as " normal " . This is done

by examining the blood of apparently " healthy " individuals, and arriving at

averages. Since 98% of our populace dies prematurely of degenerative disease,

however, this data cannot be regarded as reliable. We cannot know what optimal

nutrient levels are by assaying the blood of individuals who are slowly dying of

degenerative disease! Even if we examine the blood of people who are living very

healthfully and enjoying an exceedingly high level of health, we are faced with

the other obstacle I mentioned: among the millions of different chemicals

present in our blood at any given time, how can we tell the difference between

what is vital to the functioning of our bodies and what is waste that is being

eliminated? Doctors and others make a gigantic leap of logic when they assume

that a nutritional supplement that is in your bloodstream is " curing " some

imagined " deficiency " . Nothing of the sort has ever been definitively

established, nor could it ever be. We can't possibly know what optimal nutrient

levels are. We haven't even identified all of the nutrients in foods. It is

estimated, in fact, that we only know about 10% of them! Considering this, is it

not sheer arrogance and folly to think we can re-create the delicate balance of

nutrients our bodies need by extracting them one-by-one from food and putting

them in the form of a pill?

 

What little we know of nutrients does include the fact that they work in concert

with each other. Without the naturally-occurring chemicals that act as catalysts

to other chemicals, vitamins, minerals and other micronutrients are so much

useless waste to our bodies.

 

The mutated, hybridized, cultivated food that is offered to us in modern

supermarkets is nutritionally inferior and out of balance, of this there is no

question. Yet, how are we to know which parts are there to the extent that they

should be, and which parts aren't? Can we make up for this lack of balance by

taking a pill which contains all the nutrients we know to exist (10%, remember)?

Pills can't return balance to the foods we eat, nor can they re-establish the

balance to the chemistry in our bodies......... "

 

Much more on this at http://www.rawschool.com/nutrientdeficiency.htm

 

Shari