Functional Foods

The irony of modern medicine is that many origins of medicine are derived from natural plant, animal and mineral extractions. Our grandmothers and great-great grandmothers may not have been able to tell you that it is the amino acids found in chicken soup that help to build your immune system and break down mucous so you can breathe easier, they just knew that chicken soup helped hasten your road to recovery when you had a fever and congestion.

Through the years, as the science of medicine has matured, we have sought to cure illness through developing more sophisticated medicines, the addition of vitamin fortification and finally through the use of food supplementation. Each has value in its own right but none offers a complete answer.

Morlife, winner of the Gold Coast Excellence Business Award 2010, focuses on nutritional research that identified areas of nutritional improvement for gaining wellness that will in turn provide users with more out of life. This research is the foundation for the production of Functional Foods – foods that provide health benefits beyond basic nutrition, by enhancing ones uptake of specific nutrients to increase wellness. Functional Foods use scientific evidence to show the ‘health promoting’ or ‘illness-reducing’ benefits additional to the healthy nutrient that also provide.

Functional Foods in today’s fast-paced lifestyle can provide the nutritional insurance we need in one easy package. A functional food can provide a tasty and nutritious meal/snack and also replaces the need for additional nutritional supplements or ‘multi-vitamins’. They become an easier and more economical way to be proactive in managing our vitality and wellness and help us to get more out of life.

Functional Foods enhance your intake of specific nutrients, such as antioxidants or immune boosting factors, so your body is better equipped to cope with the modern environment and lifestyle pressures. Certain phytonutrients in functional and super-foods can even help slow the aging process by protecting us from damaging particles in the environment and the possibility of living way longer becomes a very real promise.

Adding vitamins and minerals to our daily diet is a great start but how do we know how much of each to take? And with almost twenty vitamins and minerals, how do we choose which ones we need?

Modern food supplements are a great boost, but each type is usually aimed at garnering a specific result and sifting through them all to select the one that’s right for you (plus give you everything you want from a food supplement) can prove to be too confusing to make the effort.

At the end of the day, even if we were to ferret out all the vitamins, minerals and supplements we needed to enhance our daily requirements from the avalanche of products on the shelves, we would still be missing certain nutrients and benefits of eating whole foods that contain essential elements to gaining and maintaining wellness.

Research shows that we can reach our daily requirements for nutrients by eating a well balanced diet, especially when we fortify our diet with key, functionally important nutrients. Morlife has found that by adding super foods, (those foods that are naturally high in essential nutrients), and by replacing the curative approach with a wellness approach, we stand a much better chance of getting more out of life.

Morlife creates Functional Foods that taste great and contain a wide range of nutrient dense ingredients. Each product targets a specific function and the aim is for each user to experience nutritional improvement and gain more out of life.

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