NATURAL VITAMINS
Characteristics to Remember

1. Natural Vitamins must NOT be segregated, separated or isolated.The most that can be done to increase their potency without disturbing their Natural BALANCE is to evaporate the moisture and remove the fiber so as to conserve space and temporarily render the vitamins inactive by removing the moisture. They can be kept by drying as we dry fruits, beans, corn, etc.

2. NATURAL FOOD VITAMINS are never highly concentrated. Nature is interested in BALANCE, NOT POTENCY. This means that to get higher than normal potency NATURAL VITAMINS MUST BE CONSUMED IN QUANTITY. Synthetic and Crystalline vitamins lend themselves to high potency concentrations in a few small pills. Naturals must be used in quantity as you would food. You don't count the peas or beans you had for dinner. Then why count the tablets in the handful of Springreen you take?

3. Natural vitamins build nutritionally -- synthetics medically.

4. Natural vitamins build slowly but exceedingly well as NATURE always does - Synthetics give a quick spasmodic spurt that may not be lasting.

5. Naturals are NON-TOXIC in any quantity -- Some synthetics may be very toxic. They are not a food, therefore should be used only under Doctor's supervision.

6. Naturals are much more expensive because they are perishable and every precaution must be taken to preserve their life and integrity. Synthetics are "dead", inert, cheaper and present much less expensive handling problems. As with any inert material, greater mass production creates cheaper bargain prices.

Just remember:
1. "There was never anything in the world that some man could not make a little worse and sell a little cheaper. Those people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey." - John Ruskin

2. "The bitter memory of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of cheap price is forgotten."

3. "GOD made NATURALS - MAN made SYNTHETICS. In which will you put your trust?

Probably never in history has so much money been spent on the advertising and the purchasing of any merchandise with so little knowledge of the product itself on the part of either the seller or the buyer as has been spent on 'VITAMINS'. Over $20,000,000,000 is now being spent annually and neither the purchasers nor those in the long chain of jobbers, wholesalers, retailers, over the counter dispensers, or direct to consumer salesmen know the difference between a SYNTHETIC, a CRYSTALLINE or a truly NATURAL vitamin. They know nothing of how they are made, their characteristics, their attributes, their sources, their advantages or disadvantages, nor how to tell one from the other by reading the label. We want our Springreen Distributors and customers to know exactly what they are buying and selling.

Legend:

(1) NATURAL - As far as our literature is concerned NATURAL means vitamins as found in natural foods untampered with in any way that might change their molecule - their biological or biochemical combinations, or their action - this usually means that only the fiber and moisture are removed.

All labels of truly NATURAL food concentrates should indicate the exact food source from which the vitamin is obtained.

(2) CRYSTALLINE - Means it had a natural food as its original source but was treated with various high powered chemicals, solvents, heat and distillations to reduce it down to one specific pure crystalline vitamin or amino acid and hence is no longer natural. It no longer has its synergists, that is, its enzymes, co-enzymes, minerals, mineral activators, and covitamin helpers. It has been reduced to a pure simple crystalline powder with one definite simple chemical structure. In this form it is but one single phase of the complete VITAMIN COMPLEX.

(3) SYNTHETIC - Means that in the laboratory the scientist has reconstructed the exact structure of the CRYSTALLINE molecule by "putting together" or chemically combining the same molecules from other known sources. Chemically, therefore, there is no difference between the Synthetic and the Crystalline. As a vitamin there is no difference between the two. The crystalline may have a slight advantage in that it is difficult to reduce any natural product to an absolutely pure state and any impurities would be synergists" hence give a little added value to the Crystalline over the Synthetic. On the label for either Synthetic or Crystalline only the chemical name of the single vitamin is usually given. Legally it is not necessary to give the source from which the synthetic chemical is derived.

ITEMS MOST FREQUENTLY FOUND IN FOOD SUPPLEMENTS
VITAMINS
NOTE: Only a few Crystallines are now used since Synthetics are much cheaper and legally are considered equal in value.

MINERALS - Characterized as to:

INORGANIC: The minerals as found in soils, rocks and chemicals. Some are obtainable in pure crystal powder while others are unstable alone so are available only as a salt, i.e.. combined with something else.

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