Originally published July 31 2005
City dwellers need supplements more than most
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
According to Dr. Thomas Stuttaford, supplements are essential for those busy city dwellers who eat poorly and do not have regular access to freshly prepared foods.
One sentence in the directive stipulates that "no person should sell any food supplements the labelling, presentation or advertising of which includes any mention, expressed or implied, that a balanced and varied diet cannot provide appropriate quantities of vitamins and minerals in general".
Commuters haven't the time to tend their gardens that could ensure the "balanced and varied diet" which Brussels assumes that we can all achieve.
The EU directive will not only undermine the health of the poor, harried family on the overcrowded urban estate and city workers with their 14-hour commuting days, but also the aged.
Most people realise that the brain's grey cells deteriorate with age as unwelcome chemicals distort their cells.
Few understand that the gut, too, deteriorates with age or chronic disease.
As it deteriorates, so is the gastro-intestinal system less efficient at absorbing nutrients, especially vitamins and the trace elements such as selenium, zinc, and magnesium.
The likelihood of anyone taking an overdose of vitamins that could be dangerous is remote.
The maximum recommended dose is only a small fraction of the toxic dose; the leeway is enormous.
Since the recommended daily allowance, the minimum recommended vitamin intake, was recommended, vegetables on sale in British towns have lost 27 per cent of their iron, 76 per cent of their copper and 33 per cent of their magnesium.
Another vitamin supplement, folic acid, decried for decades by the very type of doctor who now denounces other vitamin supplements, has saved hundreds of babies a year from gross malformations and helps to prevent heart disease in adults.
Many of the experiments and trials in the 1990s that showed the dangers of overdosing on vitamins have now been disproved.
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