I begin by explaining that the human body requires certain essential vitamins and minerals to be introduced, usually through food, into the body on a daily basis.

The only problem with this is that our modern day farming techniques can and often does remove an amount of those essential vitamins and minerals. A government study done over seventy years ago warned us that our soils were depleted of many of the necessary nutrients (vitamins and minerals), which means if the nutrients aren’t in the soil, how do you expect them to be in your fruits & vegetables? Modern farmers use fertilizers that speed the growing process, but these fertilizers lack many of the nutrients that need to be in the soil. Than there is the processing of the produce that can remove even more of the vital nutrients. So what are we to do?

The answer is very simple. You need to supplement your diet with a Whole Food Supplement. I do not mean an off the counter, at your grocery store, vitamin and/or mineral, I mean a True Whole Food Supplement. There is a very big difference between the two.

By definition (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia), whole food supplements are foods that have been compressed into tablet form, poured into capsules or powdered. The word “whole” indicates that the end product — a supplement — does not contain parts of foods, or synthetic or isolated vitamins. Ideally, the foods comprising these supplements have not been subjected to irradiation, contain no pesticide or herbicide residues, contain no GMO (genetically modified organisms), have not been sterilized, and do not contain animal products that have been subjected to steroids, antibiotics or other drugs. The belief being, the closer to nature, the more benefit foods provide the consumer.

Further, whole food supplements should not contain isolated minerals, amino acids, carotenes or any other substance that is not native to, and still intact within, the original food. Thus, a supplement that contains foods plus a mixture of isolated (also called “fractionated”) vitamins, minerals, amino acids and other substances, does not constitute a whole food supplement. Examples of whole food supplement ingredients may include carrots, broccoli, kale, alfalfa, wheat grass, acerola cherry, cauliflower, kelp, wild pansy, spirulina, bovine liver, bovine kidney, radishes and quinoa.

As for your typical over the counter multi-vitamin/mineral, as Mercola.com puts it, please don’t make the mistake of shopping for supplements at discount stores or large chains like Wal-Mart or Walgreen’s. In my opinion, these are examples of companies that primarily use cheap synthetic ingredients.

Synthetic alternatives to whole foods are known as “isolates”. Your body will absorb only a small percentage of an isolate form of vitamins and minerals and utilize even less. On top of that, there could potentially be side effects, depending on the quality of the isolate.

Many retail outlets and online sellers are primarily interested in your money, not your health. Supplements are not their specialty. Always refer to medical practitioners who specialize in Health & Wellness, for your nutritional questions.

You wouldn’t go to your local Fast Food Restaurant for a nice steak, would you? The same attitude should apply to your health products. You will get what you pay for, so buyers beware.

Consider this when choosing a supplement:

• If the ingredients were all natural, it would say so on their label.

• If the product went through vigorous quality control, you can bet that it would be mentioned.

• If there were no additives or major potential allergens in the product, they would definitely tell you all about it.

Additionally, the ingredients many companies use are not only synthetic, but there is a likelihood they may not have been thoroughly tested for purity and potency.

I am very pleased to tell you that there are products on the market that were designed to meet very high standards. I was asked to help design products, programs and health plans for Health & Wellness. Our core philosophy is that in order to reach True Wellness, you must have proper weight control and proper nutrition. This can only be accomplished by using Whole Food products, exercise and a little determination.

The bottom line is that in order to achieve Your Bodies Optimal Best, you must start with a solid nutritional foundation; we at Ultra International believe we have done just that. Using nothing but the finest ingredients, our Soul Super Food and Mind Super Drink is second to none.

Soul Super Food

• The Natural Visions Soul Super Food is a “Whole Food” Supplement, made from fruits, vegetables, herbs and mushrooms.

• Every Essential Vitamin & Mineral

• Probiotics

• Digestive Enzymes

• Antioxidants

• Glyconutrient Aloe Vera

• Made up of over 100 Essential nutrients that the body requires to perform at its optimal levels.

Mind Super Drink

• The Natural Visions Mind Super Drink is the most complete nutritional drink on the market today.

• The highest antioxidant levels of any drink

• 120 vitamins & minerals

• Glyconutrient enriched Aloe Vera

• 2 oz. serving will deliver about 4500 units based on the ORAC scale

• You will notice a natural increase in energy as well as providing the most packed infusion of antioxidants, minerals and vitamins that your body can utilize for your optimal health.

If you have a True interest in your body and health, which everyone of us should, please take the time to learn more about these revolutionary products and programs at: www.myui.com/lscg. Mind Body & Soul. Think It, Feel It, Live It.

The human race walks a common road but once in awhile there is a revelation so profound that it changes the journey and all observations.

It is then not possible to return unaffected and compliant with old beliefs, but begin to embrace a vision of wholeness and balance in all of Nature’s cycles. It is a return to the bounty of what Nature has provided immemorially for total health; thereby, redressing our shopping habits,

dinner tables and dietary supplements.

This exercise is guaranteed to make you never look at a vegetable or fruit in the same way again. Nature’s plant foods are intrinsic to our body’s structure and function. As importantly, when we choose our supplements, it is Nature’s whole plants that best meet the needs of the internal pharmacist inside us.

A couple years ago I was walking in similar shoes as most people believing several commonalities. Clearly, there is a direct link between

the food we eat and the structure and function of our cells.

Clearly, it is wise to eat several servings of fruits and vegetables daily highly recommended by many organizations, but often not substantially followed. Commonly, we understand that modern agricultural and food manufacturing processes have depleted and denutriented our natural plants of many of the essential elements

Subsequently, we are informed to do the next best thing …SUPPLEMENT…SUPPLEMENT… SUPPLEMENT

Now there are whole volumes that deal with vitamins, their role in health, best sources and more. But without a lot of training, most of us go to a store and decide to buy but based on what criteria. And on store shelves we are accosted by every kind of fancy labeling, claims, pills, capsules, powders, potions …and for some of us, the cheaper the better buy, right?

And once in awhile there appears a new buzzword of something vital for your body, accredited by a doctor or two, and so we have to purchase that, too. Often, to make sure we were getting a full spectrum of essential nutrients, we end up swallowing a handful of pills. Sound familiar? The latest advertising images of various vitamins are shown as brightly colored blocks with human bodies jostling each other to try and rank importance. What insulting balderdash, in my opinion.

But how much do we truly understand what constitutes a vitamin ?

Here‘s an interesting exercise…

Can you draw the elements of a vitamin (in the same way that you can draw the descriptive details of a cat, a dog, an apple or any other basic concrete object)

I’ve asked this question many times and am not surprised by the responses. In truth, a couple years ago, I would have responded in like fashion with a simple sketch of a pill or capsule form speckled with dots to show different vitamins.

A vitamin is not a dot, or speckle, a pill, a habit or a label.

A vitamin cannot be manufactured by the body and must be obtained from our diet (or supplements). A vitamin is a biochemical catalyst for growth, maintenance and reproduction of all cells in the body. It is an integral part of hormones, genes, amino acids, minerals, enzymes and immune components.

We need vitamins and minerals to help fill in the gaps in our modern food supply to benefit from total nutrition and who doesn’t want that. Your choice of dietary supplement is one of the most important choices you can make for long term health for you and your family. The question is which kind of supplement? We better get the right source and validation.

Undoubtedly, the most important drawing you’ll ever do is to see the real components of a vitamin. So take a few minutes now and draw what you understand to be a vitamin. Don’t worry about different kinds (B, C, D, A, etc.) because they all have three common features.

Don’t read ahead until you have actually drawn something because you’ll be amazed at the picture of what constitutes a vitamin. It is the revelation that transfigured my perception of what Nature’s provision is all about.

So what are the features of a vitamin?

A vitamin is an organic compound composed of three elements: carbon, hydrogen and oxygen.

Different vitamins have different combinations of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, some more a complex than others.

A drawing of a vitamin is a series of Carbon atoms linked with Hydrogen atoms linked with Oxygen atoms…all interconnected. For example, Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) shows a fixed matrix with 2 Carbon molecules,

7 Hydrogen molecules, and 6 Oxygen molecules

You can check out the actual configurations for different vitamins by google searching ‘vitamin structures.’ Some structures are impressively complex which further asks how best to replicate them or keep them as natural forms found in plants already.

Furthermore, an antioxidant is also a series of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen molecules…

A phytonutrient, or natural phytochemical, found in plants is a set of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen molecules…

An amino protein is a combination of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen with a Nitrogen element…

A fatty acid is a long chain combination of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen.

Our natural whole plants are also composed of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen molecules with the extra elements of minerals drawn from the soil. Make sure your mineral supplements also come from plants, not ground up rock or metals that can actually accumulate in the body’s tissues.

A natural question is to find out how many different configurations are found in plant foods. The answer is a second revelation. Fruits and vegetables contain hundreds of nutrients, vitamins, minerals, trace minerals, anti-oxidants, phytochemicals, enzymes, other co -factors and fiber. For example, if an apple is “labeled” correctly there would be over 600 nutritional elements that scientists can identify. Just imagine, if Mother Nature in the spirit of fair advantage, could also label the nutrients found in fruits and vegetables, their lists would be very long and very impressive! A bottle of manufactured supplement pills with 20 or 30 elements could never compare with Mother Nature’s nutritional powerhouses.

This is such a simple revelation in a market of information overload. Dietary supplementation is huge garnering about 17 billion dollars a year. There are least 29,000 supplement products made by at least 500 manufacturers, many with ingredients from the same supplier (some of which are pharmaceutical subsidiaries selling chemically derived, isolated vitamins and minerals). Strangely enough, some forms of chronic diseases have not changed and even increased.

In my opinion, in the same way that refined foods are robbed of essential nutrients, so I believe “refined” or processed pill formulations also cause imbalances, especially if taken at high levels over a long time.

This personal revelation finally led to a crossroads…how to best supplement…increase our portions of whole foods, supplement with whole food extracts, or take manufactured pills with “fractions” of natural plants.

In making the decision, a few principles stand strong. First, the body functions properly with proper “fuel” (food) a synergy of at least 100 nutrients. Second, the body is designed to draw nutrients from a natural food supply all working synergistically. Third, be aware that our genetic paleolithic blueprint hasn’t changed and that for thousands of years “ethnobotany” was the basis for healing. Fourth, was the choice to focus preventatively on natural whole foods to treat any prevailing unhealthy condition, rather than on the disease itself hoping for a chemical cure.

I decided to put my faith and trust in omniscient Nature rather than sifting and sorting through a huge number of products made in laboratories on conveyor belts. I decided to align with the natural environment believing that the “whole food best treats the whole body”. I chose a whole food supplement that comes from the ocean because of its natural mineral formulation as well as many other vital ingredients, including the essential fatty acids. I can now drink all my essential nutrients as a delicious nectar.

Just try and reproduce a bottle of sea water in a laboratory. http://www.4healthlimu.com

Exfuze is different from other supplements, as it presents a combination of valuable food supplements derived from natural fruits and herbs which are indigenous to different parts of the world. In one supplement you get goodness of seven. The drink has come to be known as the Exfuze seven plus because it is a combination of seven of the world’s most renowned of herbs with high nutritional value. One of the most important component of Exfuze seven plus is Acai or Amazon’s “super berry” as it is locally called. Botanically, Acai is Euterpe oleracea belonging to the family Arecaceae, a family to which most of the palms belong.

Acai is rich is antioxidants and micro-nutrients. It helps in building the natural defense mechanism of the body. It has high fatty acid content that helps to maintain the cholesterol level of the blood. Studies have shown that being a fruit rich in antioxidants, it restricts harmful free radicals which destroy human cells. Antioxidant, precisely anthocyanidin is extremely powerful in destroying cancer cells and in restoring stamina and increases vitality.

Hence drinking Exfuze will help people develop resistance against disease and germs. Moreover, appropriate cholesterol level maintained by this drink minimizes the risk of strokes and other heart ailments. It is extremely helpful for all of us in this stressful life. For people working the whole day, drinking Exfuze seven plus will help refresh and drain away stress and tension. If you wish to live a healthy and stress-free life, you must have Exfuze seven plus. Moreover, it is good for people suffering from high blood sugar as well.

Studies have proved the presence of potassium, calcium, iron, magnesium, sodium, copper, zinc, phosphorous, sulphur, and protein in Acai. It has two essential fatty acids, Omega 6 (Linoleic acid) and Omega 9 (Oleic acid) too. Vitamins, mainly B1, B2, B3, Vitamin C and Vitamin E are present in appropriate amounts. So, this makes Exfuze seven plus a very potential health supplement.

Acai contributes in the form of a digestive relief. Exfuze seven plus does wonders in people who have chronic digestive problems. A recent study has come up with a finding that Acai can offer solution for sexual problems as well. And all you ladies who would like to look fresh and glowing Acai has an answer for you all too. So Exfuze seven plus with the goodness of Acia, helps the young to remain young and brings back the youthfulness to the old. You need to have just 1 oz to keep yourself fit and healthy.

Exfuze comes with Acai and six other valuable components, namely Fucoidan, Goji berry, Seabucthorn, GAC fruit, Noni fruit and Mangos teem fruit and herbs, which has come to give a pain free lifestyle. For every person –from one who needs to recover soon, to every single man irrespective of age wanting to live a life strong and happy, Exfuze Seven Plus is just the right choice.

Most patients say they are not taking either. I tell them that if I had to take only one product, I would have to say it would be Ultra International’s Mind Super Drink.

The facts speak for themselves:

The highest antioxidant ORAC level per serving available, with over 4500 + per serving…over 144,000 per bottle! This will be certified and actually made PUBLIC, unlike most other companies. Over 120 plant derived vitamins and minerals per serving, to guarantee easy assimilation into the body! A complete and well rounded source of antioxidants, vitamins, minerals, dietary fiber, glyconutrients and phytonutrients to support and boost your immune, digestive and cardiac systems! A Delicious Berry taste that even children like!

Ingredients:

• Patented Aloe Vera – Very high in glyconutrients and the ultimate delivery method for maximum assimilation of the vitamins, minerals and antioxidants into and throughout the body. Also a tremendous benefit for the reduction of internal cellular inflammation.

• Acai Berry – One of the most potent sources of antioxidants in any single naturally occurring food.

• Muscadine Grape – Very high in Reservatrol One of the most potent sources of antioxidants in any single naturally occurring food.

• Mangosteen – Very high in antioxidants, xanthones and phytonutrients. Mangosteen offers the most potent source of phytonutrients in any single naturally occurring food.

• Noni Berry – Very high in antioxidants and Vitamin C

• Goji Berry – Very high in antioxidants, vitamins and phytochemicals

• Pomegranate – Very high in antioxidants, Vitamin C and Vitamin B as well as other essential minerals

• Cranberry – Very high in antioxidants, Omegas, minerals and dietary fiber to support a healthy immune, digestive and cardiac system.

• Blueberry – Very high in antioxidants, phytochemicals, dietary fiber, Manganese and Vitamin K.

• Green Tea Extract – Raises the metabolism, enabling the body to use fat as an energy source as well as giving the body a natural source of energy without the crash.

• Vitamins B1, B3, B5, B6 & B12 – Sources for a natural energy boost without the crash

It is so important, when looking for a nutritional product, that a wide variety of ingredients are utilized. If there is not a varied assortment, then move on. Our bodies are designed to utilize many, many different sources of nutrients, thus it is very important to feed your bodies needs with a well rounded nutritional foundation.

Ultra International has done just that with the Mind Super Drink. This Revolutionary Power Packed Drink is the easiest way to guarantee your bodies’ desire for nutrients and more importantly the highest quality antioxidants available on the market today.

Antioxidants play a huge role in our bodies’ ability to fight off Free Radical Damage, (See article: Antioxidants, What is the big deal?), that we should all strive to ingest high quality antioxidants every day.

Can the Mind Super Drink guarantee good health, of course not, but it sure cannot hurt. Remember that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Don’t you owe it to yourself to feed your body the best “fuel” you can? Take some time to learn about the Mind Super Drink and the other products offered by Ultra International at www.myui.com/lscg. Believe me it will be worth your effort.