Whole Foods vs Nutraceuticals! No Comparison Video Healthyride.com

Comparing whole foods to nutraceuticals is like comparing apple to oranges, there is no comparison. Yes whole foods do contain the whole ball of wax when it comes to the nutritional content. But it also contains the wax used to keep them better preserved during shipping, impurities, certain pesticides, microbes, and other potential contaminants. Whole foods also can not be quantified when it comes to each fruit or vegetable being considered, and i am not talking about certified organic versus noncertified.

When the FDA or any other organization tells us to eat a certain amount of fruits and vegetables, they are approximating the amount needed to effect our health, but it is a far cry from true science. One can not distinguish the difference in potency of on apple for example to another apple sitting aside it. Also if you can remember at one point the recommendation was 3-5 servings of fruits and vegetables per day to ward off disease, to an increase to 10-13 servings of fruits and vegetables per day. Getting 3-5 servings was daunting enough for most, but 10-13 servings per day is not only impractical, but also cost prohibitive for most.

Coupled with the time it would take to prepare, it seems like the scenario is set for people to either flat out fail or fall out of compliance, because this would have to be done on a daily basis. Consistency is key and taking a day off is really not an option. The cancer cell and other diseases do not take days off, but are more than happy to shave days, months or years off your life. In the final analysis, making whole foods an important part of your daily diet is essential, but not the complete picture at all. But then again the produce lobby has an invested interest in making you think it is the only option for health benefits.
 
JUICING:

Then there is juicing, proponents are all over the place touting the miracle benefits of juicing and the advantages and ease of use. Most of these people wanting you to think juicing is the best way to go, always seem to be pitching the next best juicing machine you need to do it right. The truth is that those high speed juicers touting their powerful motors are actually counter productive. High speed motors do two things you do not want when looking to extract precious nutrients from your already very expensive produce. High speed, powerful motors do at least two things that are not good. They will heat the juice killing nutrients, and also oxidize the very nutrients you are looking to preserve. The best juicer type to use is a slow, single screw juicer. It will do a much better job, not heat or oxidize your produce and will squeeze out even more of the juice from your valuable produce. Additionally, juicing can be dangerous and a health risk if you combine the wrong produce together and or juice certain single ingredients. This article is not intended to list all the potential side effects of potential side effects of different single ingredients.

However, as one who does juice, when I can, I can tell you it is not a 3 minute process, but more like an hour. Between cutting and prep, juicing, and the cleaning the counter and equipment. In the final analysis, Juicing has it's merits, but not very cost or time efficient for those that have a job in the real world. On top of that, just like whole food produce, you can not quantify the true amounts of nutrients you are getting from apple to apple. Nor do you get the benefits of the fiber that can be derived from whole foods. So before you go spending your hard earned money on an expensive juicer, make darn sure you are committed to the time and diligence it takes on a daily basis. if you find that you are, let me know and I will tell you what juicer I use when I am juicing.

NUTRACEUTICALS:


Nutraceuticals should not be confused with dietary supplements in the strict sense although the FDA loves to put all things in one basket. Nor can I vouch for many products out there that claim all the things they claim about their products. In fact, I give full disclosure here that I am a nutraceutical manufacturer, but am not going to slight any other by name or product. My intention here is to provide much need insight about nutraceuticals, not to pitch my own formulas.

With that said I can tell you as an insider, many manufacturers, marketers, and companies will use the least possible percentages, qualities, lessor raw materials with less potency. What they then do is make a great label, and make the consumer think it is the best raw materials. After all, what does the consumer know about the difference between high grad raw materials or inferior ones. All you know is it contains blueberries, right? Wrong!

As a manufacturer I can but blueberry extracts that cost $200 per kilo up to thousands of dollars for a kilo. You would never know by reading a label, so when you compare products on a shelf and see the same blueberry on the two products you are comparing, think again. When one product costs a fraction of the other, you can bet the lessor priced will be inferior. In essence you are just getting a psychological massage, but not much if any health benefit, and your pocket will be lighter for not.

You can also be proactive and ask the company to be more specific about their raw materials. if they ignore you or can't answer pointed questions within reason, you actually did get your answer.
I had a question today about "barley grass" used in out Med-Gourmet and healthy Ride Products. The person had concerns about the connection between barley grass and gluten. On our products you will notice that we say out products are gluten free and indeed they are. But should you trust that kind of general answer? Heck No!

Let's take the a close look at the gluten content in barley grass. In order to say no gluten on a label, and more specific regarding barley grass, the total parts per million (ppm) can not be above 20 ppm. This can be one way to actually know if you are dealing with a (real manufacturer), or some marketing company. If either can not tell you this, just walk away, you are entering the marketing spin world, and or the world of a manufacturer that is less then honest about the quality of their raw materials.

I know, I know, the next question is "So Dr Nappi, what is your ppm on barley grass"? When I am asked this question I am eager to answer and to educate. Our ppm on barley grass is less then 10 ppm. See how easy that was when you use the best raw materials and test everything in compliance with FDA and labeling regulations.
 
BACK TO THE BENEFITS OF NUTRACEUTICALS

The advantages of high grade nutraceuticals are many to me. They are quantifiable, every dose is identical so you know exactly the mg, mcg, gram count so when putting a protocol together for different types of maladies, it can be logged. The convenience can not be beat because the dosing is already done for you. All you have to do is open the bottle and use it daily. if you are to lazy to do that then you are just a loser that really thinks you will beat out the next cancer cell or other disease that could have been prevented if you just took these simple steps. The materials are already premacerated for you and in powder form are highly bioavailable, unlike pills and capsules. Liquids are on my caution list because of stability issues. That would be a whole other article.

Honestly, I started making my formulas not to sell to the public, but because i could not find consistent and reliable sources of finished products that i would put in my body. Some just because i did not trust the formulation, some because they could not provide facts, some because I did not want to waste money buying products that had such inferior grade raw materials and no benefit to my health, therefore leaving me unknowingly vulnerable to preventable diseases. Healthy Ride and Medi-Gourmet was designed originally to go into my body and all formulas I produce follow this strict philosophy, to produce formulas that get results first, not marketing hype.

Factually, I do not have any big marketing twist for my company. I just put the money into the formulas that both you and I put in our bodies. The marketing is really done by word of mouth by people that actually take them daily and get benefit and share this gift of good health with others and no, I do not mean any MLM or affiliate schemes by that. That is the way it should be. So if you get benefit form my formulas, spread the word so I can put more of the revenues into more R&D, that is the only thank you I would ask for.

The term Nutraceutical, a portmanteau of the words “nutrition” and “pharmaceutical”, is a food or food product that reportedly provides health and medical benefits, including the prevention and treatment of disease. Health Canada defines the term as "a product isolated or purified from foods that is generally sold in medicinal forms not usually associated with food. A nutraceutical is demonstrated to have a physiological benefit or provide protection against chronic disease.
 
Nutraceuitcals are in my opinion the sure fire strategic approach to dosing for health. Whole food is actually my supplement because i ca not trust the potency of individual food stuffs. But with nutraceuticals, I can do it exactly every time. I can increase or decrease as needed, etc. To me there is no better way and thank God I am able to manufacturer the best quality for my body. If I could not and was left to the maze of miracle products out there I would be just as lost as many consumers out there by all the hype. 

In my case, this is my personal life blood and I have no choice but to continue to make these formulas for my daily consumption. So, we can indeed take the ride of our lives together, because after 30 years I am no flash in the pan marketing company.

 
Summary: Nutraceuticals utilize the active beneficial health properties of whole foods. They are highly concentrated forms of beneficial nutrients of whole foods. They are convenient and cost effective with many superior health benefits. To attack preventable disease, enhance compromised immune functions, and for overall maintenance, I choose nutraceuticals. 

For example, if you wanted 20 mg of lycopene, do you want to eat vier a kilo of tomatoes per day, or do you just want the lycopene that come from the tomato? The same goes for all the other ingredients. To further illustrate, Just take Super fruits and Greens, or Medi-Gourmet Balance for example. I get 100 beneficial nutraceuticals with every dose. Try chewing on the pounds of produce or drinking all that juicing stuff daily.

 
Well that's my learned take on this topic. Have a comment? speak up, although i am to busy preventing disease to debate the topic, my ego is not that big to have to defend my position, the science is. I have practiced this for decades and I am informing, so 5 years from now after chasing the miracle, don't say I did not tell you so today. God's speed all.