How the One Size Fits All Mindset Is Wrecking Our Health

Nutrition is like a chain in which all of the essential items are the separate links. If the chain is weak or broken at any point, the whole chain fails. If there are 40 items that are essential in the diet, and one of these are missing, nutrition fails just as truly as it would if half the links were missing. The absolute lack of any one item (or several items) results in ill-health and eventually death. An insufficient amount of any one item is enough to bring the stress to the cells and tissues, which are most

vulnerable to this particular lack____The links in the nutrition chain are chemical;

salt is a chemical, sugar is a chemical, bread and milk are chemicals.

One -size-fits-all nutrition is the basic philosophy of choosing our foods and nutrition supplements on the premise of "what's good for you must be good for me." You see the application of this nutritional philosophy everyday in health food stores, supermarkets, on television, at fitness centers, at home, and in most nutrition and wellness books. The neighborhood health food store salesperson, your favorite celebrity, your workout partner, your family members, and your best friends all love to tell you about their favorite vitamin or food that they swear will work for you because it works for them. They advise you to take the vitamin they are taking, eat the foods they are eating, based on a scientifically unfounded assumption that, first of all, this product is actually good for them—something that is very difficult to prove—and second of all, that this product is right for you as well. This may be even harder to prove.