Why Whole Foods Are Best

To piggy-back on what I blogged about yesterday, I'd like to share with you a quote from Dr. Royal Lee, founder of Standard Process whole food supplements:

We have drifted into this deplorable position of national malnutrition quite inadvertently. It is the result of scientific research with the objective of finding the best ways to create foods that are non-perishable that can be made by mass production methods in central factories, and distributed so cheaply that they can sweep all local competition from the market. Then, after there develops a suspicion that these "foods" are inadequate to support life, modern advertising steps in to propagandize the people into believing that there is nothing wrong with them, that they are products of scientific research intended to afford a food that is the last word in nutritive value, ...and the confused public is totally unable to arrive at any conclusion of fact, and continues to blindly buy the rubbish that is killing them off years ahead of their time. Dr. Royal Lee June 1943

What is sad about this truth is it was written in 1943 and nothing much has changed since then. Most of our problems stem from eating unhealthy, processed foods. As a result, we try to correct malnutrition, or their effects, with toxic chemicals in the form of medicine and pharmaceuticals. The solution to malnutrition isn't chemicals, it is the consumption of organic, whole foods. As often as you can, try to consume whole foods, take whole foods supplements and limit the processed and genetically modified food stuffs.