Vitamin, Minerals and Amino Acids

Vitamins and minerals have a direct effect on both life span and quality of life. But the food we eat lacks the powerful nutritional punch of yesteryear. Factory farming, growth hormones, soil depletion, and a host of other cracks in the modern food chain have stripped our food of the potent nutritional value it once had.

• As soon as fruits and vegetables are picked, they start  to lose their nutritional value. This continues even after  refrigeration.
• Cooking depletes the nutritional value of fruits and vegetables. Consider eating them raw or steaming them lightly.
• Most types of processing destroys nutrients: freezing, canning, blanching, sterilizing, and milling.

Can you name the top three vegetables eaten by American children or teenagers? French fries, iceberg lettuce, and ketchup. Yet iceberg lettuce is 99% water, and ketchup is 50% sugar. Their nutritional value is practically nonexistent. And of all the “vegetables” eaten in a year, French fries consist of 255 of them.

Adults don’t fare much better.

Nutritionists recommend five servings of fruits and vegetables daily. But less than 10% of Americans eat this. Half of Americans don’t eat garden vegetables daily, and 40% don’t consume daily fruit or fruit juice. This causes a variety of nutritional deficiencies – from vitamins to antioxidants and beyond.

Prescription medicines leech even more nutrients from the body, placing the body in further jeopardy.

Together, these deficiencies can produce a variety of illnesses in the body, ranging from fatigue to allergies and ADD/ADHD.

Treatment

A simple blood test can measure levels of micronutrients and antioxidants in the body.

Calmglow will use the results to optimize a food and vitamin regimen that will help return your body to optimal levels.