Two Minute Healthy Buzz Every Friday you’ll receive a Two Minute Healthy Buzz video, offering inspiration and clarity with a dash of common sense. Here’s your question today: True or False I don’t need to take a supplement because my food supply is already fortified with plenty of vitamins and minerals. I have heard it stated by very mainstream dieticians that we do not need to take supplements because our food supply is already supplemented. I mean really, when we have a product like Total cereal, do we need to think past this product, about the nutrients we may or may not be getting? Right there on the front of the box it states “Total Nutrition.” One serving offers you 100% of the recommended daily allowances for all the vitamins and minerals. Basically, Total Cereal is a corn flake that has had a synthetic multi-vitamin sprayed on it. Does this equate to me getting total nutrition for my day? This example is played out in most of the food products that we consume. Our grains are processed to the point that nutrients are stripped away and then synthetic vitamins and minerals are added back in…. Watch the video: Do I Need to Supplement if My Food Supply is Already Fortified? 
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