Lower Your Cholesterol Naturally

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A heart-friendly diet consists of eating fresh vegetables along with small cuts of meat or fish. Vegetables are  thought to be loaded with vitamins and nutrients. Or is this true?

Vitamin manufacturers present a very good argument that goes like the following. Farmers, or today agribusinesses, cultivate large acreages of land to one crop. This can occur year after year. Vegetables are a source of many vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients which they draw up from the soil beneath them. This continuous monoculture cultivation depletes the soil of vitamins and nutrients. So to get your daily vitamins you need to buy and use vitamin pills, since vegetables no longer are so rich in vitamins.

I think this argument is a pretty sound one.  However, one thing vitamin manufactureres don’t consider is synergism that is the way one vitamin acts together with other vitamins and/or nutrients. When you eat a carrot, within the carrot is a whole bundle of vitamins, minerals, and nutrients, fibers, and other foreign items. How all these react when they hit your stomach and go through your gut can’t be duplicated by a vitamin pill. They react in ways that we still don’t understand.

Another important factor is that the vitamins A, D, E, and K are oil soluble. This means that when you take these vitamins there should be some oil or fat near by so that the vitamins will be properly absorbed by the body. Therefore if you take a multivitamin tablet having one or more of these vitamins in it with a glass of water only, there is a good chance these vitamins will not be absorbed and flow uselessly through your body. The simple solution is to eat the oil soluble vitamins with a meal having some oil or fat in it.