I favor supplements but I am wary of most of them. For example, no concoction is going to cure diabetes if the basics are ignored - overweight, pancreas warrantee fading, lack of exercise. There is a "vitamin" promoted and it might help a bit, but so will cutting back ice cream to only two scoops per meal.
Vitamin E pills promise energy, but like many other pills, charge a fortune for an unbalanced promise which could be less than healthy.
Joel Fuhrman pointed out that fish oil is often rancid, which may explain the foul belches and the lack of beneficial results. "I read in a ladies' magazine - barrupp - that it helps."
One couple said they ate fish once a week even though they disliked it. Companies market tilapia fish as special when it is the crabgrass of fish! Walnuts are ideal in reducing bad cholesterol and they taste great.
Calcium sounds good, but vegetable calcium is far better than questionable pill calcium. Ditto Vitamin C.
Some things are beneficial in the short run but easily available in the God's vegetable garden - potassium and magnesium. I took potassium after being low on my blood test. Not drinking so much caffein is also a cure, and so is a typical plant-based habit of eating.
Multi-vitamin pills are sold for high prices, and the trace elements may be good - not found in pizza, KFC, or ice cream. I still use multi-vitamins but get the ones from Furhman.
If there is an Internet ad featuring a supposed doctor with a wild expression on his face, the cure promised is doubtless rubbish. I followed one set of "free" messages just to see one person's cure for diabetes. The cure is hyper-expensive pills of dubious merit hyped by wild claims.
God's Creation Pharmacy
I do not know what happened, but several months into eating greens, beans, fruits, and vegetables (with some meat and no ice cream) - my hands stopped causing me extreme pain by 90%. I used to wiggle my fingers and take aspirin. Now I move my fingers in disbelief and take no aspirin. Weight loss increased my energy, dropped my A1C to normal, BP to normal.
This must be the greatest prank of all time - our farm grandparents had great nutrition from grandma's vegetable garden. But now Americans eat meals of bread, fatty-salty meat, real butter and margarine, fatty milk, fatty-salty cheese, ice cream (guilty!). And they leverage all that with sugary salty desserts (guilty!).
What is harder to digest and almost entirely lacking in food value? Answer - fast food and pizza-cheese-sausage washed down with beer.
Lest people get healthy with raw vegetables like green peppers, celery, and carrots, party hosts provide bowls of fatty-salty salad dressing. Even better - they have fatty-salty salad dressing for greasy fried chicken enhanced with hot sauce and no lack of salt.
I love all those foods, growing up where Chicken Delight was a treat and donuts were omnipresent. My classmate defined the attraction of the first chicken meals home-delivered as "the crisp, the salt, and the grease."
I could fill up on the wrong foods, with so many enablers encouraging me, but I was writing checks my pancreas could not cash.
Now, when I buy something new in the fruit or vegetable category, I look up the nutrient values, protein, and unusual trace elements. The cost is hilariously and the varieties are endless. I can skip turnips (yuk) but turnip greens are great. I can avoid root crops and eat really cheap greens.
How many old movies show poor people handling that plow? They wear rags but have Schwarzenegger muscles without the steroids. Now we have high-tech kids who cannot guide a gas lawnmower.
Most of my food costs come from frozen vegetables ($2 packages) and canned vegetables ($1 cans).
