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Vital Health Company New Zealand Limited is the New Zealand Master Distributor for Australia's top-selling greens/superfood formula - Vital Greens - the best in its category for over ten years.
Taking Vital Greens ensures you are giving your body a top quality product with the best ingredients available.
Add Vital Greens, and its companion product Vital Protein, to your daily routine and you will be armed with complete daily nutritional support so your body can work at its best - naturally and easily!
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You may have noticed our labels are changing, don't worry, it's the same great stuff inside!
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VITAL GREENS
SPECIAL 40% OFF!
Was $38.75
NOW $23.25 for 120g
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So Much More Than Just Greens…Or A Multi-Vitamin!
The All-In-One Nutritional Superfood
Vital Greens is a carefully balanced blend of nutritionally potent and nutrient-dense greens, vegetables and fruits, plus additional herbs, natural minerals, powerful antioxidants, probiotics for intestinal health, essential amino acids, essential fatty acids (omegas 3, 6 and 9), digestive enzymes, cell pigments, plant sterols and fibres.
The ingredients are correctly proportioned to work in synergy for maximum effect; they provide optimum nutrient levels to help improve detoxification, aid digestion, build immunity and deliver energy and vitality to every cell in your body.
Unlike some synthetic multi-vitamins, Vital Greens is concentrated REAL FOOD, raw and alive. Your body recognises it as food, absorbs the nutrients at the cellular level and uses them to promote good health.
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VITAL PROTEIN
From $39.95 for 500g
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100% Vegetable! - Superior Pea Protein Isolate
Ideal for Everyone, Vital Protein has the Edge
Whether you are taking protein to supplement your intake for sports, or for diet, or simply to ensure good nutrition, you’ll find Vital Protein is a valuable and effective source. It results from research into high quality, easily digestible natural proteins.
Vital Protein is extracted from European-grown golden peas using a patented enzyme process that isolates out an amazing 88% protein content. It is 98% digestible!
Proteins are the body’s main source of nitrogen, essential for growth and development. They are responsible for the building and repair of all your cells, muscle, tissue, skin and the blood. They are essential for body maintenance, digestion, immune function, movement, energy production, detoxification, weight control and even mood.
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| Many people believe that eating a well-balanced diet provides all the vitamins and minerals necessary for good health. In ideal circumstances this is the case, but in reality there are many reasons why you need supplements to cope with living in our current environment. Taking supplements when required is a safe method to optimise your dietary sources of nutrients, provided you follow the instructions on product labels. |
| 1 Crop Nutrient Losses |
2 Convenience Foods |
| Some agricultural soils are deficient in trace elements. Decades of intensive farming and over work can deplete soils unless trace elements are regularly replaced. UK, Australian and New Zealand soils, for example, have very low levels of the essential element selenium. |
A diet overly dependent on highly refined carbohydrates such as sugar, white flour and rice places greater demand on existing reserves of B-group vitamins to process the carbohydrates. An unbalanced diet can result in conditions like irritability, lethargy and sleep disorders. |
| 3 Alcohol |
4 Food Storage |
| Drinking too much alcohol is known to damage the liver and pancreas, which are vital to digestion and metabolism. It can also damage the lining of the intestinal tract and adversely affect the absorption of nutrients, leading to sub-clinical malnutrition. Regular heavy use of alcohol increases the body’s need for the water soluble B-group vitamins as well as Vitamins A, C and B12. That’s not all! Alcohol affects availability, absorption and metabolism of nutrients. |
Vitamin E is a major antioxidant inhibiting oxidative damage to all tissues. Freezing food containing Vitamin E reduces its levels once defrosted. Heat and air can turn Vitamin E rancid. Many common sources of Vitamin E such as bread and oils are highly processed to increase storage life these days – reducing the Vitamin E content or even wiping it out completely. Other vitamins lost in food preserving include Vitamins B1 (Thiamine) and C. |
| 5 Oral Contraceptives |
6 Stress |
| Oral contraception can decrease absorption of folic acid and increase the need for Vitamins B6 and C, zinc and riboflavin. |
Chemical, physical and emotional stresses can increase the body’s needs for Vitamins B2, B5, B6 and C. Air pollution increases the need for Vitamin E. |
| 7 Overcooking = Murder in the Kitchen! |
8 The Elderly |
| Lengthy cooking or reheating of meat and vegetables can oxidise and destroy heat-sensitive vitamins such as the B-group, C and E. Boiling of vegetables leaches the water-soluble B-group and C vitamins as well as many minerals. Light steaming is preferable. Some vitamins such as B6 can be destroyed by microwaving. |
The aged have been shown to have a low intake of vitamins and minerals, particularly iron, calcium and zinc. Folic acid, Vitamins C, B1 and B6 deficiencies are common. Fibre intake often is low. Possible causes include impaired sense of taste and smell, reduced secretion of digestive enzymes, chronic disease and physical impairment. |
| 9 Teenagers |
10 Food Allergies |
| Rapid growth spurts in teenage years, particularly for girls, place high demands on nutrient resources to underwrite the accelerated physical, biochemical and emotional development in this age group. |
The omission of whole food groups from the diet, for individuals with allergies to such as gluten or lactose, can result in the loss of major dietary sources of nutrients like calcium. |
| 11 Light Eaters |
12 Fad Diets |
| Some people eat very sparingly, even without weight reduction goals. US dietary surveys have shown the average woman maintains her weight on 7560 kilojoules per day. In such circumstances, low levels of Vitamins B1, calcium and iron can be expected. |
Bizarre diets that eliminate whole groups of food can be seriously lacking in vitamins. Even the popular low-fat diets, if taken to an extreme, can be deficient in Vitamins A, D and E. Vegetarian diets which exclude any animal sources must be skilfully planned to avoid a B12 and protein deficiency which may lead to anaemia. |
| 13 Poor Digestion |
14 Hot Coffee, Tea & Spices |
| Even when your food intake is good, inefficient digestion can limit your body’s uptake of nutrients. The two common causes of inefficient digestion are not chewing well enough, or eating too fast. Both of these result in larger-than-normal food portions being swallowed, too large to allow the complete action of digestive enzymes. |
Habitual drinking of liquids that are too hot – or consuming an excess of irritants such as coffee, tea, spices or even pickles – can cause inflammation of the digestive linings. This results in a drop in secretion of digestive fluids and poorer extraction of vitamins and minerals from food. |
| 15 Smoking |
16 Laxatives |
| Smoking tobacco is also an irritant to the digestive tract and increases the need for Vitamin C by at least 30%. Normally present in fruits and some vegetables, Vitamin C oxidises rapidly after the food is picked, cut, juiced, cooked or stored near direct light or heat and, therefore, loses its efficacy rapidly. Vitamin C is also vital for good immunity. |
Overuse of laxatives can result in poor absorption of vitamins and minerals from food by speeding up the intestinal transit time. Paraffin and other mineral oils increase losses of fat-soluble Vitamins A, D, E and K. Other laxatives, if used to excess, tend to flush large amounts of essential minerals like sodium, potassium and magnesium. |
| 17 Antibiotics |
18 Athletes |
| Although valuable in fighting serious infections, some antibiotics also kill off friendly bacteria in the gut that would normally be producing B-group vitamins to be absorbed through the intestinal walls. This can result in deficiencies causing nervous disorders. When on a lengthy course of antibiotics, try to supplement with at least B-group vitamins and probiotics to restore gut flora. |
Athletes consume large amounts of food and experience considerable physical stress. These factors increase their needs for B-group vitamins, Vitamin C and iron in particular. Tests on Australian Olympic athletes and A-grade football players for example, have shown wide-ranging vitamin deficiencies. Continual excessive perspiration can result in mineral depletion and deficiency. |
| 19 Illnesses & Accidents |
20 Low Body Reserves |
| Burns lead to loss of protein and other essential nutrients. Surgery increases the need for zinc, Vitamin E and other nutrients involved in cellular repair mechanisms. Repair of broken bones is retarded by a lack of calcium and Vitamin C. Infections increase the requirements of zinc, magnesium and Vitamins B5 and B6. |
Although the body is able to store reserves of certain vitamins such as A and E, Canadian autopsy data has shown that up to 30% of the population have low reserves of Vitamin A, so low as to be judged ‘at risk’. Vitamin A is important to healthy skin and mucous membranes (including the sinus and lungs) and eyesight. |
| 21 Pre-Menstrual Tension |
22 Bio-Individuality |
| Research has shown up to 60% of women suffering PMT symptoms like headaches, irritability, bloating, breast tenderness, lethargy and depression can benefit with B6 supplementation. |
Wide fluctuations in individual nutrient requirements from the official Recommended Daily Intake (RDI) are common, particularly for those in high physical demand vocations such as manual labour and athletes. |
| 23 Environmental Toxins |
24 Pregnant Women |
| Every day, unavoidable exposure to toxins in the food we eat, the air we breathe and the things we touch creates additional stress on the detoxification organs and interferes with the immune system and biochemistry of the body. This leads to a range of medical conditions including excess acidity. This, in turn, results in a greater demand for essential nutrients to fortify reserves and help repair damage. |
Pregnancy creates higher-than-average demands for nutrients to ensure healthy growth of the baby and comfortable confinement for the mother. Vitamins typically in increasing demand are the whole B-group, A, D and E. The minerals include calcium, iron, magnesium, zinc and phosphorous. Professional nutritional advice should be sought during pregnancy. |
| 25 Lack of Sunlight |
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| Shift workers, invalids, and people with minimal sunlight exposure can suffer Vitamin D deficiency which can lead to disruption of calcium metabolism. This can cause osteoporosis (bone thinning) and bone malformation. |
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