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Physician's Preference Vitamins & Minerals
When I graduated from medical school in 1976, I too, was poorly educated about the benefits of vitamins and minerals.
Like most physicians, my medical education had contained at most a few lectures on the role of vitamins and minerals in the body and certainly not vitamin and mineral supplements. The vitamin deficiency diseases such as scurvy and rickets were mentioned briefly, but the effects of subclinical nutritional deficiencies were given no attention at all. Although books by nutritionist Adelle Davis were very popular among the public, they were looked down upon by conventional physicians. The notion that vitamin and mineral supplements and other naturally occurring substances could be used therapeutically was considered quackery.
If you are wondering who needs vitamin and mineral supplements in a society where food is so abundant and inexpensive, the answer is: everyone.
The typical American diet is high in calories but low in nutritional quality. Seventy percent of the food we eat is processed, meaning that it is stripped of essential fiber and nutrients, chemically altered, and loaded with preservatives. We eat few fresh foods and even fewer foods classified as organic, and our intake of the most nutrient-dense fruits and vegetables is abysmal.
Nutrition surveys have found that, on a typical day, less than a quarter of Americans eat any vitamin-C rich foods, and less than a fifth eat broccoli, cabbage, or other cruciferous vegetables.
However, even those of us who make an effort to consume fresh fruits and vegetables are not reaping the same nutritional benefits our ancestors did. The reason? Modern agricultural methods deplete the soil of minerals, which translates to nutrient-depleted produce. Furthermore, nutrients are lost as produce is shipped from farms to grocery stores, during the cooking process, and even by being exposed to air and light.
Because our foods are nutritionally lacking, our bodies suffer, too. Studies have shown that nutritional deficiencies are surprisingly common in this country, even in apparently healthy adults.
Vitamin and mineral supplementation is sorely needed to maintain our nation’s health.
For this reason I established Physician's Preference Vitamin Store. All of the products have been researched and developed with your good health in mind.