So what is a healthy diet?  Science shows that it's a diet made up of unprocessed and unrefined foods.

    When we process or refine foods (for example when we turn whole wheat into white flour or pasta) we remove on average 75% and often all minerals, vitamins, fibre and other nutrients.  Processed diets are also high in the zero-vitamin sugars and hydrogenated solid fats that both raise the potentially bad (if oxidized) LDL cholesterol.

    There is no longer any doubt that diets low in such minor nutrients cause heart and other chronic health problems, including cancer and arthritis. 

    In real life, even most "good" diets don't provide optimum levels of many nutrients and here a well chosen multivitamin - mineral supplement does the trick.  Although in a pill, as a food concentrate, consider it an Essential Food Group.  It's the easiest life-style change you can make.  With the multi, consider including 1 to 4 g vitamin C, 1 to 2 g calcium, 1/2 to 1 g magnesium, 400 IU vitamin E & 200 mcg selenium. 

    Make sure you're getting some heart-healthy omega 3 oils (found only in fish and lin/flax, with lower amounts in wheat germ, walnut, chia & unhydrogenated soy & canola) and you've done much to safeguard your immediate and long-term health.  Disease is never caused by a lack of drugs but often by a lack of optimum nutrients.  Find out why: