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Why are Whole Food Dietary Supplements Better than Single Nutrient Supplements?

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Why are Whole Food Dietary Supplements Better than Single Nutrient Supplements?

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A Review Based on the Vitamin C Literature Jane Ramberg, MS; Lam Le; Shayne McAnalley; C. Michael Koepke; Eileen Vennum, RAC and Bill McAnalley, PhD ABSTRACT Vitamin discoveries in the first half of the 20th Century finally disproved the belief, accepted for most of recorded human history, that foods are composed of a single nutrient. These discoveries then prompted an enormous amount of research exploring individual (i.e., “solo”) effects of vitamins on human health. “Solo” nutrient supplementation studies, often at high doses, have not demonstrated the benefits expected. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, the scientist who isolated vitamin C, noticed it was more effective when another phytonutrient in his food source of vitamin C, a flavonoid, was present. Recent food nutrient analyses reveal that all vitamin C rich plant foods contain flavonoids, suggesting that these two nutrients are functionally important for plants. Subsequent research has emphasized that phytonutrients don’t function as “so

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