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Show I A Word on Vitamins and Nutrition Bv DEBBIE JACKSON r , Most people today are )ncerned with iirition to one degree another. While most taowthe basics, such as eating from the four pal groups, few people Jinow what happens to M nutritional value of Moods they eat before H is set on the table. During the last few I years amazing amounts ' of research has been !j ione on nulrition. Science has found a : Wy need for selenium, ,tlioline, acidophilus, 1 others. The research continues. con-tinues. For example, min E which a few years ago was just an gredient in our f'ilamin tablet, has limbed lo a place of jtonor. Only a year ago, i:11 was found to .dissolve some forms of J -cancerous cysts in series of articles. During the next few weeks I will tell you more about the aforementioned items", plus more. A housewife spends a large portion of the day shopping and preparing meals for her family. She chooses foods high in nutrition, prepares her tasty menus and arranges them attractively at-tractively at the table. Then this housewife sits down feeling satisfied that her family has a meal that is good for them. Not necessarily so! Those beautiful red tomatoes have been treated with a hormone that causes rapid growth, but does not allow sufficient time for nutrient growth. That delicious salad may have been shipped hundreds of miles and stored in warehouses for these treatments have their purpose, the heat destroys many of Ihe vitamins. It is for these "reasons that supplements sup-plements should be taken. There are many various typos of supplements sup-plements on Ihe market today. There are multivitamins multi-vitamins which contain Ihe required daily allowance. There are mega vitamins for those individuals who prefers stronger doses. There are organic ones, synthetic ones, chewy ones and "gulp fast because they are nasty" ones.. Red ones, orange-ones, orange-ones, square ones, round ones. After awhile a person could gel lost in a vitamaze. The size of vitamin to use is your own preference. For people who feel (heir diels are sufficient, a low potency vitamin is enough. Others feel no matter how good their diets appear, they need a high potency vitamin. You must also decide if you would prefer to lake several different tablets to get the vitamins you want, or would a mulli-vitamin do as well. Next, and most important, im-portant, is synthetic versus natural. Synelhelic vilamins are a latero-rotary, while natural vitamans are dextro-rolary. Dextro-rotary Dextro-rotary is a righlhanded pattern of Ihe molecular structure with the electrons (raveling around the nucleius in a clockwise direct ion. Latero-rotary is an exact mirror image of Ihe d e x 1 r o . The molecular slruclure of 'the latero is left handed with the electrons traveling around the nucleus in a counterclockwise counter-clockwise direction. The body cannot fully use . the latero-rotary vitamins, because Ihe body is dexlro-rotary. This fact has been proven by a company who is researching lalero-rolary sugar. They have found this sugar tastes, measures and cooks like regular sugar, but il is not used by the body. They are currently awaiting FDS approval, so don't hold your breath, dieters. It should be several years before Ibis is on the market. If you have any questions about vitamins, elc, there are many health stores in Ihe valley, including Ihe new nulrition center here in town, which would be more than willing to help you. l umen's breasts. ,vith all this research ;tang done, it is hard to current with the Ranges and 'Kweries. That is why ll'we to write this weeks. During this lime some of the nutrients have been lost. Those cool, creamy glasses of milk have been homogenized and pasteurized. Although |