Our bodie s need the correct food in optimum amounts to function normally and to raise another generation of healthy people. Sterol Family Plant sterols are not vitamins. They have no antioxidant properties, so taking them does not preclude a regular vitamin and mineral regimen. But vitamin supplements are not effective unless they are assimilated. The immune system needs to receive the boost of natural plant sterols.
Cholesterol is a well-known and much discussed sterol, but with a major difference.
Both humans and animals must derive these compounds from their diets. The entry of the industrial age was the beginning of the refining and denaturing of nutritious foods in order to accommodate long storage and shipping. The consequence was a gradual breakdown in human health to foster the epidemic of deficiency diseases we have today. Dr Bouic says a turnaround is now possible. We must look again at both the cultures and the historical periods that lived to old age without disease and learn from them.