So what makes it so much better to get your nutrients through foods rather than supplements? I understand you need to eat, but say all you’ve got is potatoes and multivitamins, is that very much less effective than eating a balanced diet? Or is it just “ideal” to get them through foods but you’ll still be ok?
Like if that’s all you had for a month, would your health really suffer negatively?
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Supplements only provide specific nutrients that they were formulated for, and most of it is pure snake oil.
Food contains lots of micronutrients that we may not even know about or that your body needs in such minute quantities that isolating them is difficult or impossible.
Potatoes have lots of nutrients… mostly in the skin. If you’re eating lots of potatoes, and ignoring the skin, you’re tossing away what makes it a “whole” food. We often do the same with rice and wheat. White rice is rice with the skin thrown away.
There is no such thing as “superfoods”. That’s just straight up marketing. Eat a diverse and balanced diet, and you don’t need supplements.
The supplements section (often referred to in the business as “pills and powders”) is *the most profitable section in the entire store* (often the ONLY profitable section, and it’s carrying the whole store). They market those products by using dubious and unproven/unprovable health claims and barely skirting the law about how they make those claims. And they’re almost always invoking the nebulous “Big Pharma” and profits (whose products have to go through rigorous testing to prove they actually work) … to sell you something *very* profitable.
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