Do SuperFoods Really Exist? CAN ANY one food or vitamin supplement prevent cancer? Prevent a heart attack? Reduce stress-induced inflammation? Is there such a thing as a “superfood?” No, according to leading nutritionists and medical researchers. As reported in a recent article in Business Insider, the claims of food manufacturers and supplement suppliers that their products have extraordinary powers to heal or to protect our bodies has been refuted over the past five years by a growing body of research. While the food industry works overtime to “discover” the next “superfood”, researchers are trying to get the word out that no one food is a cure-all, that what our bodies need is a well-balanced diet that is rich in whole grains and colorful vegetables. Claims by supplement manufacturers that we are suffering from a long list of nutrient deficiencies was singled out by researchers as being particularly misleading. A paper recently published in the Annals of Internal Medicine by scientists from The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine on the value of vitamin supplements concluded that we are, as a general rule, overfed and that our diet is “completely adequate” – in other words, those extra vitamins you’re buying every month are superfluous.
In 2007, the European Union banned the use of the word superfood to sell food products that do not have credible scientific evidence to support the manufacturer’s claims. While American public health officials have not yet banned the use of the word, they do want consumers to be aware that such claims do not always have research results that back them up.
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