Special Edition Email Newsletter
It's official--and I'll bet you did not know this--"Prescription medications kill 100,000 people each year when properly prescribed, while vitamins have not caused a single death in 27 years," according to this very important article authored by Dr. Joseph Mercola. Allow me to extend the math on this. In the past 27 years, more than 2,700,000 people--in the U.S. alone--have died because they took one or more drugs prescribed by their doctors. No one--according to a review of statistics from the American Association of Poison Control Centers--has died from taking vitamin supplements during those 27 years.
Recently, Dr. Mercola, who has the internet's most read alternative health newsletter, was on the Dr. Oz show--television's number one watched health show. Dr. Mercola had a lot he wanted to say about the difference between the safety and efficacy of nutritional supplements and prescription drugs. Unfortunately, do to the constraints of TV time, most was left unsaid.
So I invite you to read Dr. Mercola's thoughtful and thought provoking article and remember it the next time you see another "expert" condemning nutritional supplements as useless or dangerous. 2014 marks my 35th year selling vitamins and nutritional supplements and about my 40th year of using them as part of my evolving version of a healthy lifestyle. While I am convinced that how you eat, how you exercise and how you balance your emotions are the key elements in creating and maintaining a lifetime of health, I also believe that almost everyone can benefit by optimizing their health with an individually-appropriate selection of vitamins, herbs and other nutritional supplements. Thank you for considering this and thank you for trusting what we do at Harvest Market. Bob Kleszics Owner Harvest Market Natural Foods
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