foods that are themselves supplements

I found this article very interesting, and have since bought a juicer and am experimenting with stuff (any juicing recipes? My kids are going nuts with new flavors--banana/carrot/apple/broccoli juice...)

I need to search out some alfalfa seeds as well.

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FOODS THAT ARE THEMSELVES SUPPLEMENTS
* NUTRITIONAL or BREWER'S YEAST (Vitamin B-12, other B-vitamins, Chromium,
Selenium) Like most foods, these won't fit into tablets. Try hiding the
flavor in pineapple juice. You may prefer the taste of primary-grown
nutritional yeast, as it is not a byproduct of beer making. Debittered
brewers' yeast also offers a taste improvement.

* WHEAT GERM (Vitamin E, magnesium, B-vitamins, protein) If vacuum packed,
one of the very best foods in the supermarket. Only buy very fresh,
refrigerated wheat germ at the health food store. The nose knows: smell to
tell if it is fresh.

* SPROUTED GRAINS, SPROUTED BEANS (complete protein, all vitamins and
minerals, fiber) Eat raw and often. The best food at the salad bar. Probably
the most complete food you'll find. Low calorie and cheap to grow at home.
If I had only one food to recommend, it would be this.

* FRESH, RAW VEGETABLE JUICE (carotene, minerals and vitamins in general,
fiber) Tastes great and is better for you than any beverage on Earth. Get a
juicer, and use it! No bottled vitamins can compare to an uncooked,
concentrated extract of veggies. Drink some daily.

* WHEATGRASS JUICE (Large quantities of vitamin C, vitamins and minerals in
general, chlorophyll) Wheat is cheap. Sprout it in your kitchen! On a flat
tray or two, under a bit of soil, you can have an indoor sprout farm. When
several inches high, harvest with regular scissors. Add a bit of water while
putting the wheatgrass through the juicer.

* YOGURT (calcium, phosphorus, beneficial acidophilus bacteria, protein,
B-vitamins) About the easiest dairy food to digest and absorb. Dilute with
water as an alternative to milk. Ever notice that over one-third of most
"fruited" yogurts is sugar-laden jam? Buy plain and sweeten it yourself.

* LECITHIN Granules by the tablespoon beat those horse pills that contain
only 1.2 grams of the stuff. Cheapest, best source of choline, linolenic
acid, phospholipids and inositol. Totally vegetarian. Start small and
gradually increase your daily lecithin.

* WHOLE WHEAT, BARLEY, OATS, BROWN RICE (fiber, vitamins and minerals,
protein, complex carbohydrates) Who needs extra bran or laxatives when you
can just eat the fiber-rich whole grain in the first place?

* NUTS are rich in magnesium and protein. They are not fattening unless they
are salted and oiled such that you overeat and under-chew them. Slow down,
eat them in their natural state, and consider them a meat-replacing main
course.

* MOLASSES (iron, and more) Avoid bitter-tasting blackstrap and select a
"primary" or sweet molasses as an alternative to junk-food snacks.

* FRESH FRUIT AND RAW VEGETABLES are loaded with fiber, potassium, and
bioflavinoids, in addition to their well-known, if modest, quantities of
vitamins and minerals. So eat a lot of them. My kids would, literally, make
eight trips per meal to any all-you-can-eat salad bar that was fool enough
to let us in. I was right behind them. So if you cannot megadose with
tablets, megadose with low-calorie raw foods.

Do I eat this way? Sure do. Do I expect you to? Well, that depends. But if
you do not like the idea of losing your options, let your demand for free
access to high-potency vitamin supplements be heard immediately

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