Are we swamping ourselve with nutrients?

I wonder if we allow ourselves to be swamped with nutrients.

Nutrients essentially are those substances required in micro amounts to facilitate the bulk of the chemical reactions that keep us alive. There are two areas where we might indeed over do the intake of these.

  The longest in existence has been Big Pharma and one has only to look at chemist and health shop shelves to be gob-smacked by the plethora of them on sale. If I take the case of vitamin C, the daily need is probably in the region of 50 milligrams. A massive range of vitamin C will be on show including fizzy versions of 1000mg. Big Pharma hopes you will take the view that  the ‘more the better’ and fails to let you know that having taken such a dose most of it will be discharged when next you go to pass water and of course charges you a pretty penny for the privilege. I would venture 200 mg of a slow release vit C preparation would be many times better for you and your pocket. Many other vitamin preparations are there to confuse but generally are expensive and unnecessary in the amounts on offer. Information on daily recommended doses is all one needs.

  The other source is that obtained from graunching vegetables and fruit in machinery like the bullet. What it can produce, is certainly shown to produce, is a nutritional hit of vitamins and minerals. However the ingested slurry, no matter how much fibre its constituents have, will never have the same effect on the gut as eating the constituents. The fibre will be downgraded by virtue of its mechanical liquidising and offer no beneficial bulk or irritant effect to the gut musculature. As for the nutrients therein, the ‘hit’ is not what the body was made to cope with, let alone absorb and use economically.

As I’ve said before liquidising is easily seen as unnatural.

The one place I have to admit it is good is its brief use in graunching or cracking seeds such as those in pomegranate kernels or linseed where access to their nutrition centres by grinding them in ones’ teeth would take ages.