and for my final piece of the night
my coup de grace, as they used to say, is something I have known for decades, but which most people still don't know. Now, there have been great strides in vitamin manufacturing, but the AVERAGE pill bought in a store, including most pills bought in health food stores, are often, or usually, or completely man made from offshoots of the petroleum industry.
yep.
so, for the last bit of the night, cause this could be argued forever, and I don't have the time anymore..........
http://www.sweetrite.com/id19.html
What is Your Vitamin Really?
Most vitamins in supplements are petroleum extracts, coal tar derivatives, and chemically processed sugar (plus sometimes industrially processed fish oils), with other acids and industrial chemicals (such as formaldehyde) used to process them [1-5]. Synthetic vitamins were originally developed because they cost less [7]. Assuming the non-food product does not contain fish oils,
most synthetic, petroleum-derived, supplements will call their products 'vegetarian', not because they are from plants, but because they are not from animals. Most vitamins in vitamin supplements made from food are in foods such as acerola cherries, alfalfa sprouts, carrots, corn, grapefruit, lemons, limes, nutritional yeast, oranges, rice bran, soy beans, and tangerines (some companies also use animal products).
Table 1. Composition of Food and Non-Food Vitamins [1-10]
Vitamin Food Nutrient* 'Natural' Vitamin Analogue & Some Process Chemicals
Vitamin A/Betacarotene Carrots Methanol, benzene, petroleum esters; acetylene; refined oils
Vitamin B-1 Nutritional yeast, rice bran Coal tar derivatives, hydrochloric acid; acetonitrole with ammonia
Vitamin B-2 Nutritional yeast, rice bran Synthetically produced with 2N acetic acid
Vitamin B-3 Nutritional yeast, rice bran Coal tar derivatives, 3-cyanopyridine; ammonia and acid
Vitamin B-5 Nutritional yeast, rice bran Condensing isobutyraldehyde with formaldehyde
Vitamin B-6 Nutritional yeast, rice bran Petroleum ester & hydrochloric acid with formaldehyde
Vitamin B-8 Corn, rice bran Phytin hydrolyzed with calcium hydroxide and sulfuric acid
Vitamin B-9 Alfalfa sprouts, rice bran Processed with petroleum derivatives and acids; acetylene
Vitamin B-12 Nutritional yeast Cobalamins reacted with cyanide
Vitamin 'B-x' PABA Nutritional yeast Coal tar oxidized with nitric acid (from ammonia)
Vitamin B Factor Choline Nutritional yeast, rice bran Ethylene and ammonia with HCL or tartaric acid
Vitamin C Acerola cherries, citrus fruits Hydrogenated sugar processed with acetone
Vitamin D Nutritional yeast Irradiated animal fat/cattle brains or solvently extracted
Vitamin E Corn, soy beans, vegetable oils Trimethylhydroquinone with isophytol; refined oils
Vitamin K Alfalfa sprouts Coal tar derivative; produced with p-allelic-nickel
* Note: Although some companies use liver extracts as a source for vitamins A and/or D, no company this researcher is aware of whose products are made out of 100% food use animal products for any of their multiple vitamins. Some companies also use brewer's yeast which is inferior to nutritional yeast in many ways (including the fact that it has not had the cell wall enzymatically processed to reduce possible sensitivities).
Comparison of Certain Biological Effects of Food and Non-Food Vitamins
Food Vitamin Compared to USP/'Natural'/Non-Food Vitamins [1,17-27]
Vitamin A 1.54 times more absorbed into blood
Vitamin B-1 1.38 times more absorbed into blood
Vitamin B-2 1.92 times better retained in the liver
Vitamin B-3 3.94 times more absorbed into blood
Vitamin B-6 2.54 times more absorbed into blood
Vitamin B-9 2.13 times better retained in the liver
Vitamin B-12 2.56 times more absorbed into blood
Vitamin C 3.2 to 15.6 times the antioxidant effect
Vitamin D Over 10 times the antirachitic effect
Vitamin E Up to 7.02 times more retained by the body
Vitamin 'H' Over 100 times the biotin activity
The difference is more than quantitative. For example, even if one were to take 3.2 times as much of the so-called natural, non-food, ascorbic acid than food vitamin C, although the antioxidant effects might be similar in vitro, the ascorbic acid still will not contain DHAA [1], nor will it ever have negative oxidative reductive potential (ORP). An in vitro study performed at this researcher's lab with a digital ORP meter demonstrated that a citrus food vitamin C has negative ORP, but that ascorbic acid had positive ORP. It takes negative ORP to clean up oxidative damage [28],
and since ascorbic acid has positive ORP (as well as positive redox potential [1]), it can never replace food vitamin C no matter what the quantity! Furthermore, foods which are high in vitamin C tend to have high Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity (ORAC, another test which measures the ability of foods and other compounds to subdue oxygen free radicals [27]). A US government study which compared the in vivo effects of a high vitamin C food (80 mg of vitamin C) compared to about 15.6 times as much isolated ascorbic acid (1250 mg) found that the vitamin C-containing food produced the greatest increase in blood antioxidant levels (it is believed that bioflavonoids and other food factors are responsible) [27]. Furthermore, it is even possible isolated ascorbic acid only has in vitro and no in vivo antioxidant effects [29]yet high vitamin C foods have both [27,29].
Furthermore, it is even possible isolated ascorbic acid only has in vitro and no in vivo antioxidant effects: “it has not been possible to show conclusively that higher than anti-scorbic intake of {SYNTHETIC} vitamin C has antioxidant clinical benefit” [29]. Why should people take supplemental synthetic ascorbic acid when it is NOT been proven to have antioxidant effects in humans? On the other hand, high vitamin C containing foods do have proven in vitro and in vivo antioxidant effects.
Note:
1. So called natural vitamins which are derived from non food sources, are really Synthetic Vitamins.
2. Ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) is synthetic vitamin C.
3.
Most vitamins sold are not food they are synthetically processed petroleum and/or hydrogenated sugar extracts even if they say "natural" on the label. They are not in the same chemical form or structural form as real vitamins are in foods; thus they are not natural for the human body. True natural food vitamins are superior to synthetic ones [8]. Food vitamins are functionally superior to non-food vitamins as they tend to be preferentially absorbed and/or retained by the body [3-8,14-26]. Isolated, non-food vitamins, even when not chemically different are only fractionated nutrients [1,3,8,16,18].
4. Actually, no matter how much synthetic vitamins one takes orally, they will:
1) Never be a truly complete nutrient source.
2) Never replace all the functions of food vitamins.
3) Always be unnatural substances to the body.
4) Always strain the body by requiring that it detoxify or somehow dispose of their unnatural structures/chemicals.
5) Never be utilized, absorbed, and retained the same as food nutrients.
6) Not be able to prevent advanced protein glycation end-product formation the same as food nutrients.
7) Never be able to have the antioxidant effects the same as food nutrients.
8) Always be industrial products.
9) Always be composed of petroleum-derivatives, hydrogenated sugars, acids, and/or industrially-processed rocks.
10) Never build optimal health the same as food nutrients.
The truth is that only foods, or supplements composed of 100% foods, can be counted on as not containing non-food vitamin analogues.
Doctor's Research- Articles
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Not pushing this product, just showing you that the "vitamins" most are taking, or have stored in their preps will do poor service in a prolonged crisis. Most natural health practioners and writers consider them toxins.
Eat your 4 year old spam indeed and then take your petroleum based "vitamin" = not as as a general rule, thank you
)I can supply my own water; all I want and need is the food. And if you can get them without the water/drink; will they be cheaper?
I certainly can't afford to pay that much per meal x3 / day!
