Closing the Gap
Most of us can imagine what it looks like to have optimal health, but few of us manage to attain it or maintain it. However, we all can aspire to it. IT is just a matter of closing the gap between where we are and where optimal health can take us.
One of the first steps I took when I was a graduate student toward optimal health was to give up my isolated vitamins and start taking a whole food, fruit and vegetable concentrate. My dear friend Dr. Mitra Ray suggested it. She appealed to both my instinct to take care of myself and prevent degenerative disease and to my knowledge as a scientist. I knew that I wasn't getting enough nutrition in my diet and I also knew that the vitamins that I was taking could not be complete nutritionally, they were too purified. I saw in the scientific literature almost every month that new nutrients were being discovered in vegetables and fruits that our bodies need but weren't in my vitamin. So, instead of staying with the default vitamin program, I began getting the nutrition of 17 different fruits and vegetables in my diet everyday just by taking 4 capsule. Of course, I continued to try to eat as many fruits and vegetables as I could because of course the capsules are not a substitute for food just an insurance policy that I am getting enough nutrition no matter what is in season and on my plate.
And now, even though I am eating much better, I continue to take these concentrated fruit and vegetable powders and now eat the berry blend as well. I also feel great about feeding them to my family. This way I am confident that we are getting the nutrients our bodies need.
Want to know more ways you can close the gap? I highly recommend Dr. Mitra Ray's book, From Here to Longevity.