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> Hm, that has always been my gut feeling but I never found articles  
> that said so. You got some easy finds that you know of without too  
> much effort?

Gene, I've got this flagged and I've been wanting to get my references on 
this subject together for some time, this will be a good excuse.

Until then, just to sumarize (in what small capacity I have to sumarize 
anything), the research shows that gross chemical doses of the various 
vitamins and 
minerals will correct pathological conditions like scurvy and beriberi and 
such, but it does nothing to enhance normal health, prevent cancer, nor 
mitigate 
aging.

The reason being that the vitamins don't act alone.  At one time we were told 
that we needed, for example B vitamin.  So people took cod liver oil.  As 
time went on, it was discovered that there isn't a B vitamin but a whole 
series 
of similar vitamins all of which are needed.  Same with C, it does not occur 
in 
just one form.

But more important than that is the presence in food of a vast and 
bewildering array of phytochemicals (plant-chemicals).  More than 400 have 
been 
identified in broccoli and more than 4000 in wild lamb's quarter.  Wild foods 
are much 
more nutrient rich than domesticated foods.

It's not limited to plant food.  Really free range chickens that can eat 
bugs, fungus, and grass have an ideal balance of fats in the egg so that the 
cholesterol can be properly processed when the egg is eaten.  The dark yellow 
yolk 
is from the carotenoids in the grass the chickens eat.  Same with the yellow 
color of butter and milk.   

Ever hear any dietician expound that you need to incude sulphoraphane,  
lycopene, anthocyanidin, genistein, and daidzein in your diet?  The list is 
endless.

So what do the morons do, they attempt to extract or mimic the chemicals in 
broccoli and spinach (which is related to lamb's quarter) and put them in a 
pill.  Did I mention that they are morons?

There's the old tale of the white man explaining to the Indian why the white 
man was in charge.  He drew a small circle in the dirt and said "This is what 
the Indian knows."  He then drew a larger circle around that and said "This 
is 
what the white man knows."   The Indian took the stick from him and drew an 
enormous circle around that and said, "And this is what neither the Indian 
nor 
the white man knows."

Fact is, in our mortal state we will NEVER know what is in pants, not the 
whole of it and not even the smallest percent of it.  There are things here 
(and 
I'm not just talking about the chemicals) undreampt of .

Just eat the broccoli.   </HTML>