Grab bag really very effective advertising campaigns, get more masses of people who eat badly to use food supplements. This market is very flourishing and incremented in its turnover of over 10% a year in Italy.
We are told that they are vitamins, minerals, proteins, carbohydrates and fats (i.e. macro-and micro-nutrients), the components of the foods that we are not the same foods as such: for example, what contains the carrot, not the carrot, and regardless of the fact that it can be frozen or less and more. Doctors, dieticians, nutritionists (science of nutrition), with their scientific approach to think only amount of the nutrients that the body (such as the machine for the petrol) may need (nor are agree among themselves on those amounts). These "scientists" of little importance that those nutritive substances, identified through a concept exclusively of food biochemistry, are ingested as part of a complete food itself (like the carrot) or as supplements. For these professionals of science, understood in the most negative way possible as the sole bearer of truth, the mutual relationship between these nutrients has no importance and is therefore irrelevant that vitamin C can be obtained by eating a carrot whole or swallowing a pill colored, those which pharmacies are located in front of your eyes in attractive boxessky-high prices, shelves which are in genuine TOTEM of "health". Nearly two billion euros of turnover last year and the famous "polase" from the counter becomes supplement! The quantity in grams of nutrient is everything, no matter how it is conveyed and where you are or where they come. This is the scientific-mechanistic vision that we are faced everywhere, in newspapers, on television, studies of "specialists", for cooks and chefs (when you care about, at least), and even to all types of slow foods which multiply under different names. No one among the foolish asks whether the word "Supplement" means since suffered a defeat for those who prescribes it and buys it. For those who swallow the losing battle is that relating to the food they eat and the type of supply adopted that, clearly, is not "integra" but lacking. Defeat for physicians, pharmacists and others who advise because implicitly admit not having been able to intervene with its customers in their salutogenesi, and then be required to cure diseases and to create the conditions of an acceptable health.
Scientific reductionist approach to nutrition sa consider only the biochemical components of food and not see other intangible factors, such as vegetable-quality animal food, its shape, color, aroma, taste, texture, the direction of growth, the climate or season of origin qualities , all of which are extraneous to judge the adequacy of what we put into the pot.
The Eastern mind instead, with his systemic approach, attaches great importance to all of these factors and the role that they play in their context, in their mutual relations and proportions as well as the nature originated them.
In carrot there are water, proteins, carbohydrates, iron, calcium, phosphorus, sodium, potassium, B vitamins, vitamin A, and, last but not least, fiber (hard part that you chew and does well in the intestine). Nature in its infinite wisdom (Tao) created the carrot as a system and has used the human body at a certain beneficial reaction when that Benedict vegetable is eaten in integral form. But if you do not ingest vitamin A carrot in pills, variously made from sugars and starches, our body will certainly surprise. What do you think? Do you agree? In fact, it was not created to metabolize a single element, which immediately begins to
The scientific model reductionist and mechanistic (westernmost), which sees only the amount of nutrients, claims that are parties to determine the whole and that the cell is the supreme arbiter and the absolute master of the body. The mobile food remains the only compass to orient us in deciding how to eat.
Systemic conception (easternmost) follows the opposite road that sees all determine its parts; health is a condition of the entire body (not only living organism that composed) and "a healthy body is able to win a few diseased cells present within it."
The conclusion is that it promotes the salutogenesi nourishing ourselves with the whole foods instead of nourish individual cells with individual nutrients, as well the nonconformist.
