"SUPPLEMENTS –
“To be or not to be”?!?"

11-28-99

Hello again everyone and I trust each of you had a Happy Thanksgiving?!

I am often amused at how many folks refer to nutrition when they talk about “Supplements”. Let me set the record straight for all those who are proponents of supplements. Supplementation is NOT Nutrition. It's just as it says, SUPPLEMENTATION! Here's the best definition of Nutrition I can come up with. Nutrition is nothing more than a series of 4 Processes the body employs to make food materials for the body to use. It takes place without thought or conscious effort as it's an innate response from the superior wisdom of the body we were born with. That's all Nutrition is. It doesn't heal, cure or do anything for that matter. It's the body that does the processes.

Now let's look at supplementation. Supplements are just that, supplements, not circumvents. We should be thinking of supplements (vitamins & minerals in the multitude of ways there are sold, i.e. pills, potions, lotions, etc.) as something to complement the meal not to take the place of the meal. So I've decided to do all these 22+ years in the business of nutrition is to teach the meal. If we can get the meal down then supplementation will serve us a lot better. And here's an interesting thought, if vitamin supplements are suppose to make us feel better, then we should at some point get to where we don't need them anymore, but it appears that we always increase the dosage as we go. It's not my contention to pooh pooh supplements, but rather to put them in the proper perspective.

But then there's so much confusion about this subject of just plain sensible eating that it was my quest to teach those who wanted more zest in their lives exactly how we are designed to eat. I will make this another article, but for now let's understand that we all digest food exactly the same way which was the basis for “The Perfect Diet Program"! I will make this challenge to anyone who is reading this e-mail that if you can prove me wrong on that statement I will buy you what you want. If you put horses in Africa, China or The fabulous United States, they will all digest food the same way, They are species specific. We are humans…species specific. We all digest food the same way. Now our needs may vary and the rate of efficiency of the way digest food may vary, but we all digest food the EXACT SAME WAY! Go to any Anatomy or Physiology book and you will NEVER find Wayne Pickering's name, Judith Dacey or Nick or Darlene Nicholas' names there! What you will find is where it says that in the mouth, we do it this way. In the stomach, we do it this way and so forth right on through the entire alimentary canal!

But let's give supplementation the benefit of the doubt here. A classic line by the Great Joe Marino, a fellow speaker friend of mine in Jacksonville, Florida, “nobody likes change except a wet baby!” It has helped me to understand why it's easier to get someone to change their marriage; their job, their religion or even their home than it is to change their diet. Also, people would rather take a quality supplement than to make a lot of changes in their diet. I guess it's a comfort zone type of thing. Well we had to address this and design our own line of high potent, quality, totally safe herbal line of supplements! We were adamant about this as our reputation was at stake and I've learned that it take years to build up trust, and only seconds to destroy it. These are also available from our website.

I will close with saying that no matter what anyone else tries to tell you, the bottom line is “If we want to be tough, we have to eat good stuff!” Treat yourself to the very best as you are the best you got. How old do we get before we get to? Stay terrific!

Wayne “The Mango Man” Pickering

PS My “C/D of the Week” is something very good that I checked out of the library and features the group CHICAGO and the title of the C/D is “Night and Day”. I am so impressed with their arrangements of all the old standards. Knock yourself out.

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