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The Vitamin Pill Misconception

Many people take vitamin supplements on a daily basis thinking that they are getting their needed nutrition. Isolated nutrients often lose the overall benefit that the balanced nutrition of a whole plant can offer. To qualify as a healthy food, a plant or some portion of a plant must be used in its whole form. Our bodies need thousands of different types of nutrients, not just a few vitamins, like A, B, C, D, E, etc.  Vitamin supplements appear to be a fast and efficient solution to make up for malnutrition, but new studies show that vitamins do not function independently - they are complex structures that work synergistically with other vitamins and nutrients found in the plants. Vitamins are present in all plant foods and are essential for good health; however, isolated vitamins are not healthy.  What we are just now discovering is that isolated vitamins (nutrients in plants that are taken out and concentrated into pills) are not as beneficial as initially thought.  In fact, vitamins that have been isolated away from the wholesome plant actually become toxic and will throw the body chemistry out of balance.  Even if taking vitamin supplements was beneficial, would those few vitamins be enough to give our Immune System ample nutrition?  Obviously not, because cancer and heart diseases are still major causes of death and are still on the rise.  Inside each type of plant, there are literally thousands of vitamins, minerals, and phytochemicals that our bodies need.  It is always best to eat wholesome foods and not isolated vitamins because there might be other nutrients inside plants that scientists have not discovered yet!  We need the whole spectrum of nutrients from the plant, not just a few nutrients from it! Ask yourself, is my body so simple that just a few vitamin pills can keep you healthy?  Obviously the answer is no, we need to get our nutrition from wholesome, organically grown plant foods!

Your Immune System doesn't need drugs. It needs the Nutrition that can only come from wholesome organically grown plant foods and herbs, grown, harvested, and processed, with strict adherence to the principles of Nutritional Immunology.

Nutritional Immunology

Nutritional Immunology is a new branch of science that studies the relationship between nutrition and the immune system. The pioneer of this new research science is Dr. Jau Fei Chen; after years of research, Dr. Jau Fei Chen has discovered the answers to the question of why we are all so sick today. She concluded that drugs are not the answer and that the best doctor in the world is our immune system. Her science of Nutritional Immunology answers the question of why so many people are sick today, when we have the most advanced medical technology in the history of the world...

The answer is shocking! Yes, virtually all types of illness and diseases can be traced back to malnutrition! However, this type of malnutrition is not because we are not eating enough food; it is because we are not eating the proper food. As you have already read; Even if we tried very hard to eat the right foods, on average, over 90% of the disease fighting nutrients and immune system enhancers will be missing from the foods we eat (on a daily basis). If 90% seems rather high, please keep in mind that we are only talking about the disease fighting nutrients and immune system enhancers, and not the carbohydrates, sugars, fats, and proteins that gives foods most of its taste. The latter provide energy and building material for your body, but do little for helping the immune system fight illness or disease!

Nutritional Immunology is a new science that studies how nutrition relates to the immune system. Learning about Nutritional Immunology is a vital part of your education before you can truly understand all eight vital healing steps. Nutritional Immunology, is a science that studies:
1. the types of food which support the immune system (plant foods)
2. the part(s) of plants that should be used
3. how the plant should be grown
4. when it should be harvested
5. how it should be processed
6. how it should be formulated (.i.e. taken in combination with other plants foods for best effect)

Although Nutritional Immunology focuses mostly on nutrition, it also stresses the importance of moderate exercise, sleep, stress reduction, and drinking enough clean water.

The Meridian Lifeforce Gold Seal of Approval

Approved Meridian Life-force gold seal food suppliers have been entrusted to use extreme methods and the greatest care to preserve bioactivity, and not to damage or destroy the precious and sensitive living nutrients in their foods.

In order to meet our gold seal standard, not only must a plant food be grown correctly in the right soil and harvested at the right time, but there is another stringent requirement that only the best part of the plant concluded by scientific research to support the immune system should be used. Other companies simply grind up the whole plant trying to get a higher yield, but this results in a lower concentration of useful nutrients. To obtain our meridian life-force gold seal of approval, we have another stringent requirement that the plant foods must be processed right away immediately after harvest without using chemical preservatives, excessive heat, or additives. Many people are not aware that fruits and vegetable quickly start losing valuable nutrients naturally immediately after harvest. This is a natural process due to the fact the living cells in the fruits and vegetables, are themselves alive and need nourishment. Up to 90% of the disease fighting nutrients and immune system enhancers in the harvested plant can be lost in a matter of days if not eaten right away. For fruits that have been cut open, the decay is even faster. Precious immune system enhancers are lost in a matter of minutes. Again we are not talking about the carbohydrates, fats, minerals, and proteins because there are so much of these in the plant; we are talking about disease fighting nutrients, like phytochemicals, anti-oxidants and polysaccharides. There are so little in the plants in the first place compared to the amount of carbohydrates, fats, minerals, and proteins. Given that all plant food purchased in the market place, whether organically grown or not, takes days to get to the store shelf, and that the disease is caused by immune system dysfunction, can you now see why everybody is so sick today and why it’s getting worse and worse.

We will only deal with companies that pay attention to this research that shows this importance of food being eaten right away after harvesting. Meridian life-force foods are processed immediately after harvest in a manner that suspends cellular activity of the plant after harvest to prevent the plant from consuming the phytonutrients and antioxidants, while still maintaining the life-force of the plant. The patented gold seal techniques used include freeze-drying, flow drying, and micron filtration techniques to preserve bioactivity and ensure the wholesomeness of the foods; to find out more information or place an order, please call 1-800-986-6007.