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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If your only exercise equipment is a bicep curl machine, you can develop very large biceps. However, just having large biceps isn’t useful for daily tasks that require multiple muscle groups. You could also hurt yourself if you suddenly shift a load from your strong biceps to other unexercised muscles.
Supplements are similar. You get a lot of one nutrient but our daily function requires multiple. In the worst case, having too much of one nutrient can hurt our bodies. Whole foods often contain those multiple nutrients together.
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