Those of us who drink coffee, other caffinated beverages, or smoke cigarettes should be taking a good sublingual (liquid) B-complex because caffeine and cigarettes leach our bodies of the B vitamins, especially b6, causing poor circulation and charlie horses and other muscle cramps. Calcium in our diets leach our bodies of magnesium, so we should be taking a magnesium supplement. Vitamin C is another fragile vitamin that needs to be taken as a supplement. And then there's the matter of anti-oxidents that USED to be provided naturally in fresh fruits and vegetables, but now you would have to eat 9 oranges to get the same nutritive value we used to get from one orange. Our body has more free radicals to fights off because of more chemical toxins in our air, water and food, and less anti-oxidents to counteract the effects of free radicals. Cut an apple or bananana open and let it sit in the air. The browning that occurs is free radicals in action.

 

Then there's the amount of oxygen contained in the air we breath. Our atmosphere used to contain 40% oxygen. It now contains 19%, less in big cities. It takes 12 trees to provide enough oxygen for one person to breath. Since the decrease of oxygen in our invironment cancer has been on the rise, along with other debilitating diseases. Yet rainforests are clear cut and burned to provide places to raise cattle for meat cheaply , and develope wilderness areas for human population, at an alarming rate.

 

Uh-oh, I'm on a soap box! Nuff said!