Mother Nature VS Capsules of Nature
Can you get your fruits and veggies in pill form?
The television ads are running nonstop on stations I watch. In one TV spot for the fruit & veggie pills, a mature man is in a gym, lifting weights, and talking about how he takes these fruit and veggie pills because something like “there’s no way I have time to put together all the fruits and vegetables I need. No way!”
My immediate question is, okay, so then, what are you eating?
I mean, if you don’t have time to eat fruits and veggies, then what, exactly, are you eating? These little capsules aren’t going to fill you up, even though they expect you to swallow six capsules plus “2 heaping scoops” of powder every day.
That’s a lot, but it’s not enough to fill you up. So what are you eating to fill you up? If it was fruits, veggies and whole grains, then you wouldn’t need the supplement, so what are you eating?
Besides fruits, veggies, and whole grains, what else is there to eat? Well, mainly there’s meat, dairy, ultra-processed fake meat and fake dairy, and lots of chips and sweets.
Why the form of your food matters
Some of the wonderful chemical reactions we experience when we eat, begin in our mouths, when we chew. They continue in our stomachs and all the way through, with most of our nutrients being absorbed in the small intestine. (This is why Dr. Essylstyn doesn’t recommend smoothies.) I have trouble believing there’s anything left of powdered veggies once the hydrochloric acid in our stomachs gets through with them, but maybe.