Some of you know that
Whole Food Nation, a company I am affiliated with, is running a vitamin exchange program. Your synthetic vitamins for our whole food multi - a month's supply.
***Sorry all spots filled for trade-away, thank you to the people who take vitamins everyday that looked for a safer option.*** If you would like to try the POPS
go here to learn more. Anyway, the first batch of vitamins have come in. We were just looking through the first 10 or so, to see who made them and how many synthetic ingredients were listed along with the numerous preservatives and other weird chemical ingredients.
Here's what was also listed on almost every one of them. Some or all of these artificial colors:
yellow #6 Lake, yellow #5 Lake
blue #1 Lake #2 Lake
Artificial food and supplement colorings are made of coal tar and petrochemicals. Who'd knowingly eat that? Among other things, artificial food colorings are shown to increase hyperactivity
and decrease attention span in a wide range of children...
In a recent report which received huge publicity,
Vitamins A, C and E are 'a waste of time and may even shorten your life' there was a big outcry from people promoting vitamins, accusing big pharma of being behind this sort of trashing of vitamins, since they promote drugs.
However, the vitamins in this big review of studies including over 200,000 subjects, were synthetic. If the sample we received is any indication, they also contained artificial food colorings.
Why then, should the recent findings that most vitamins did nothing, and perhaps increased mortality among the people taking them, be surprising?
Synthetic vitamins have been associated for at least 12 years with
increased rates of lung cancer and heart attacks, and increased birth defects for women, for example. People take vitamins because they believe it increases their health and possibly, their longevity.
Now we see that nearly all of them are not only synthetic, but have food colorings which are known to be toxic.
Is it really any surprise then that most of our vitamins might not really be safe?
Check your bottle. See if they have artificial food colorings. If so, you can bet they're also synthetic. Goes together.
There ARE whole food supplements on the market. Go to a health food store and ask for them.
But for heaven's sake, throw out ALL those vitamins that are filled with artificial food colorings and contain mostly synthetic vitamins.
You're better off taking nothing.
From Kim Klaver, part owner of Whole Food Nation and advocate for whole foods in vitamins and consuming in our food.
Are Your Vitamins Safe?: Should vitamins containing artificial food colors carry warning labels?
Email Robin HereSubscribe to Whole Food And More
Things to know about your daily vitamin before you buyFind Grass Fed-Meat
***Sorry all spots filled for trade-away, thank you to the people who take vitamins everyday that looked for a safer option.*** If you would like to try the POPS go here to learn more.
Anyway, the first batch of vitamins have come in. We were just looking through the first 10 or so, to see who made them and how many synthetic ingredients were listed along with the numerous preservatives and other weird chemical ingredients.
Here's what was also listed on almost every one of them. Some or all of these artificial colors:
yellow #6 Lake, yellow #5 Lake
blue #1 Lake #2 Lake
Artificial food and supplement colorings are made of coal tar and petrochemicals. Who'd knowingly eat that? Among other things, artificial food colorings are shown to increase hyperactivity and decrease attention span in a wide range of children...
In a recent report which received huge publicity, Vitamins A, C and E are 'a waste of time and may even shorten your life' there was a big outcry from people promoting vitamins, accusing big pharma of being behind this sort of trashing of vitamins, since they promote drugs.
However, the vitamins in this big review of studies including over 200,000 subjects, were synthetic. If the sample we received is any indication, they also contained artificial food colorings.
Why then, should the recent findings that most vitamins did nothing, and perhaps increased mortality among the people taking them, be surprising?
Synthetic vitamins have been associated for at least 12 years with increased rates of lung cancer and heart attacks, and increased birth defects for women, for example.
People take vitamins because they believe it increases their health and possibly, their longevity.
Now we see that nearly all of them are not only synthetic, but have food colorings which are known to be toxic.
Is it really any surprise then that most of our vitamins might not really be safe?
Check your bottle. See if they have artificial food colorings. If so, you can bet they're also synthetic. Goes together.
There ARE whole food supplements on the market. Go to a health food store and ask for them.
But for heaven's sake, throw out ALL those vitamins that are filled with artificial food colorings and contain mostly synthetic vitamins.
You're better off taking nothing.
From Kim Klaver, part owner of Whole Food Nation and advocate for whole foods in vitamins and consuming in our food.
Are Your Vitamins Safe?: Should vitamins containing artificial food colors carry warning labels?
Email Robin Here
Subscribe to Whole Food And More
Things to know about your daily vitamin before you buyFind Grass Fed-Meat