Harmful Effects of Oxalates in the Diet:

• contribute to the formation of kidney stones
• cause mineral deficiencies, resulting in bone disease, abnormal growth, dysfunction of the reproductive system and other disorders
• cause depletion of the antioxidant glutathione, resulting in an impaired ability of the liver to detoxify as well as a lowered potential to preserve brain health
• damages cell membranes and mitochondria
• resulting in fatigue and energy issues leading to cell death
• triggering nerve cell damage that causes functional problems throughout the nervous system
• creating autoimmune symptoms by stressing and confusing the immune system.
• corroding digestive system linings, causing leaky gut and/or other gastrointestinal diseases

Why are fruits and vegetables always spoken in the same breath, as if the combination represents the healthiest superfood?

Although, both fruits and vegetables can be rich in vitamins, minerals and fiber (all good things), in most cases, they are actually NOT rich in vitamins and minerals, due to the sad state of todays top soils, which are mostly depleted of the nutrients needed to support nutrient rich produce.

Furthermore, the powdered ingredients that are typically used in most fruit/vegetable formulations have very little fiber. Not to mention that most fruits are typically very high in sugars (sucrose and fructose, depending on which fruit), which is very unhealthy.

Clearly, fruits and vegetables are not as good as they are said to be, however, the far bigger concern, despite many people being totally unaware, is that many fruits and vegetables are actually quite harmful to health.

The culprit contained in some fruits and vegetables that causes the harm is oxalates (oxalic acid).

Please follow the links below to learn more about oxalates and their poisonous effects:

Sally K Norton, MPH Is the leading expert on the harmful effects of oxalates in food. Her ground breaking book Toxic Superfoods is a must read!

Jill Harris, LPN, CHC has written extensively about how to reduce oxalates in your diet.

Monique Attinger, MLIS,CHN has compiled a ton of research on the harmful effect of oxalates in our diets.

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Does anyone really believe paid testimonials?

Its hard to imagine why anyone would believe paid testimonials, particularly ones as “over the top” as the ones featured in the Balance of Nature® commercials. I personally find them to be obnoxious and insulting to my intelligence, but I guess many others are far less critical thinkers.

They really lay it on so thick . . . for example:

• the woman, who talks about how she got her “va va voom” back, and then felt compelled to ask how she could help promote this product
• the guy who says that after using Balance of Nature® he has better dreams
• Vincent (a nutritionist), who says:

  ”I'm not a morning person, but after a week of using Balance of Nature® I started geting up early and I started feeling better, because I have so much energy . . . There is something about Balance of Nature® that I need to tell the world about, so here I am.”

My intelligence is especially insulted by the commercials featuring founder (chiropractor Douglas Howard):

• In one commmercial, Howard has the gall to state that the food, processes and testimonials are all real. As if him saying so will convince anyone.
• In another commercial, he feigns spontaneity when he quips:

“The formula that we have is not just fruit and vegetables; and I do take a little bit of offense to that sometimes, because its just thousands of hours studying how to put those fruits and vegetables, in what order and how they can be processed. You have an unlimited number of chemical combinations, that have zero negative side effects and only help and improve the body.”

• Notice how his quote implies that he has spent thousands of hours researching the unlimited chemical combinations between fruits and vegetable, and that his formula is optimized accordingly, resulting in a product that can only help and improve the body with no side effects.
• However if you parse his very carefully scripted statement, you realize that he is not really saying anything of the kind. He really just strings together some unrelated and incomplete sentences, that give that impression, without specifically saying something, that:
  • the FDA would deem to be an unapproved drug claim
  • the FTC would deem to be a false advertising claim.

Bottom line: We do not consider Balance of Nature® a good purchase choice.

• Dietary oxalates can be harmful to health, so why take a supplement that contains high oxalate levels?
• This product is very expensive.
• Any product that is sold with such a hard sell, should be avoided like the plague!