Leo Supplements
One may automatically assume if Leo consumed a very poor diet that is low in fruits and vegetables for almost all 27 years of his life and took a daily multivitamin, plus individual supplements of beta carotene, vitamin C and selenium he might not be very healthy and may be at risk for degenerative diseases such as cancer or cardiovascular disease. I do believe that Leo in fact cannot be as healthy as if he would be eating a healthy diet including the proper amounts of fruits and vegetables.
According to the article “Getting Your Vitamins and Minerals Through Diet” in the Harvard Women’s Health Watch it is stated that supplements are no substitute for a healthy diet and it can be particularly difficult to get the right nutrients you need if …show more content…
Very few would agree that by Leo taking supplements instead of eating fruits and vegetables in his daily diet it is fine, in fact it appears that there is really no one who agrees that you really cannot replace good nutrition with supplements. In doing my research for this essay I was surprised to find there seems to be little or no evidence supporting supplements in place of healthy eating except in articles where it appears they are actually selling a supplement or diet. The one site I found was called “Bulletproof” where they are selling a diet and way of life, and there was article titled “Why Getting Your Nutrition Only from Food is A Bad Idea”. Some of the areas they discuss are soil and water depletion in relation to nutrition in food, Grain-fed Meat & Cooked/Conventional Dairy, low calorie and low nutrient diets, Supplementation May Help You Live Longer, and more. For example, they discuss the need for supplements due to grains, legumes and dairy being nutrient deficient because they contain relatively small amounts of nutrients and what they do have is malabsorbed. They state that now most fruits and vegetables are grown to increase sugar content and not their nutrient value making them artificially high in fructose and sugar and lower in key nutrients. Also, the write that our bodies need nutrients to deal with all the toxins we are exposed to now and that we aren’t designed to deal with these toxins with nutrition alone and need
According to the article “Getting Your Vitamins and Minerals Through Diet” in the Harvard Women’s Health Watch it is stated that supplements are no substitute for a healthy diet and it can be particularly difficult to get the right nutrients you need if …show more content…
Very few would agree that by Leo taking supplements instead of eating fruits and vegetables in his daily diet it is fine, in fact it appears that there is really no one who agrees that you really cannot replace good nutrition with supplements. In doing my research for this essay I was surprised to find there seems to be little or no evidence supporting supplements in place of healthy eating except in articles where it appears they are actually selling a supplement or diet. The one site I found was called “Bulletproof” where they are selling a diet and way of life, and there was article titled “Why Getting Your Nutrition Only from Food is A Bad Idea”. Some of the areas they discuss are soil and water depletion in relation to nutrition in food, Grain-fed Meat & Cooked/Conventional Dairy, low calorie and low nutrient diets, Supplementation May Help You Live Longer, and more. For example, they discuss the need for supplements due to grains, legumes and dairy being nutrient deficient because they contain relatively small amounts of nutrients and what they do have is malabsorbed. They state that now most fruits and vegetables are grown to increase sugar content and not their nutrient value making them artificially high in fructose and sugar and lower in key nutrients. Also, the write that our bodies need nutrients to deal with all the toxins we are exposed to now and that we aren’t designed to deal with these toxins with nutrition alone and need