What a strange new world we live in where common plants cant be prescribed or patented for lack of profits and may even be outlawed in lieu of expensive drugs that kill approximately 100,000 people annually!

Grandmother had it right this connection between health and whole foods-- along with a whole base of ethno- botanical knowledge and plant pharmacology! Science is now corroborating what people have known, immemorially, that food from plants is our best source of natural biochemicals that support levels of biochemicals found in human metabolism to promote good cellular health. Lack of proper nutrients can cause cellular degeneration, and both health and disease begin in the single cell. Science confirms that the human cells need one hundred plus nutrients each on a daily basis.

Grandma may not have told you that when you eat just one serving of vegetables you are ingesting at least 100 different phytochemicals or phytonutrients. Some plant constituents are also called bioflavanoids or polyphenols found in seeds, bark, flowers, and fruit skin. In fact, nutritional sciences have advanced in the same way as pharmaceutical science through molecular cell cultures and long term reviews to show a multitude of benefits in our plant food. Who would have imagined? Real food compounds have been proven to reduce allergic responses, prevent formation of carcinogens, control inflammatory conditions, lessen coronary heart conditions, reduce liver disease, protect against cataracts and macular degeneration, and inhibit bacteria and yeast. These bioflavanoids also scavenge free radicals that cause oxidative damage in the cells that is implicated in long term inflammatory and degenerative diseases. Even the USDA (US Department of Agriculture) has pointed out that it appears that an effective strategy of supporting health is to increase consumption of phytonutrient rich food.

It is with just cause that the Cancer Institute, the Heart Institute and many doctors recommend eating a variety of vegetables and fruit 5 to 7 times daily or more. Statistics show that most do not, but even for those who do, there is the overriding question of how nutrient-dense supermarket vegetables are because of factory farming, mineral depleted soil, green harvesting and storage. So many consumers subscribe to supplementing their diets with extra vitamins and minerals, amino acids, essential fatty acids, probiotics and phytonutrients to provide the holistic synergy for cellular nutrition. Lately, the market trend is towards whole food extracts and liquid nutrition rather than an array of pills. For more information, have a look at the ebooklet 82 Reasons to Plug Into Powerful Plant Nutrients for Powerful Natural Health (4.77) at www.limufriend.ws