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The objective of orthomolecular nutrition is to provide the foods to which we have been adapted by evolution; to supplement these foods with additional quantities of the nutrients that are deficient in modern diets; and to provide even higher quantities of nutrients for people, especially sick people, whose needs are greater than average.

Good nutrition need not be very complicated. For millions of years, our ancestors and wild animals did pretty well in knowing what to eat, without any training. They were not more intelligent; they simply had no choice. They ate what they had adapted to. We have introduced a choice by damaging our diet and providing what appears to be food but is not. To return to our previous state of consumption—what we can be healthy with—there are two simple rules:

• Eat no junk food

• Avoid foods that make you sick

The price of not doing this is disease. The reward of doing so is good health.