BALANCE OF NATURE: ABOUT US
Did you know, Balance of Nature first started in the 1990s! It all began with Dr. Douglas Howard’s concern about the increasing epidemic of lifestyle diseases and his desire for his loved ones to stay healthy and happy. He discovered a needed solution and developed Balance of Nature.
BALANCE OF NATURE: OUR PURPOSE
Balance of Nature is all about helping others become the healthiest they can be, but that is ultimately up to you. We believe that health is an individual responsibility, we are here to provide a consistent and reliable way to ensure you get your daily needed amount of Fruit and Vegetables!
Here at Balance of Nature, we have unique core values that drive us and we try to embody as well as help others to do so as well. We value family, righteous living, accountability, healthy living, finding excellence in the ordinary, passion, being positive and caring, having both a team and a self-employed mentality, tenacity, being productively supportive, and being results-driven. It is with these core values that we strive to provide the best possible product!
Our products and philosophies are rooted in real science, and we expect real results. We strive to make a high-level of health possible for people by providing the highest quality products available. We have real people in our offices eager to answer your questions and help you reach your health goals!
BALANCE OF NATURE: OUR PRODUCTS
Balance of Nature products are 100 percent natural, vine-ripened, whole food, and third-party tested. They don’t contain additives, fillers, extracts, added chemicals or sugar, pesticides, or synthetics. They are also gluten free and non-GMO!
Balance of Nature Fruits & Veggies contain thirty-one flash dried fruits and vegetables, specifically selected for their combined effectiveness in strengthening the immune system, cell protection, and DNA repair and apoptosis.
The Fruits capsules contain sixteen different fruits including aloe vera, apple, banana, blueberry, cherry, cranberry, grape, grapefruit, lemon, mango, orange, papaya, pineapple, raspberry, strawberry, and tomato.
The Veggies include a blend of fifteen different pure, whole vegetables. In the capsules, you’ll find broccoli, cabbage, carrot, cauliflower, cayenne pepper, celery stalk, garlic, kale, onion, shiitake mushroom, soybean, spinach, wheat grass, yam, and zucchini.
We also offer a daily fiber supplement, Fiber & Spice, as healthy, clean bowels are an important part of a healthy lifestyle. Fiber & Spice is a unique blend of whole fiber sources and twelve spices. It contains whole psyllium husk, whole apple, flaxseed, allspice, cardamom, cinnamon, clove, coriander, cumin, fennel seed, fenugreek, ginger, mustard, nutmeg, and turmeric.
Balance of Nature does not claim to treat or cure any disease. Fruits, vegetables, and other plant foods provide the vital chemistry our bodies need to defend and repair themselves.
We keep all of the chemistry—the seeds, skin, core, and color—in our produce. We only remove the water and air. Watch this video to see how our products are made!
Heat, air, and light destroy the chemistry, or the nutrients, in your food. Heat, light, and air, in addition to moisture, cause oxidation, which breaks things down. Oxidation makes rust, for example. We use a vacuum process with no heat, air, or light. Oxidation destroys the nutrition, and that’s why we use the process we do.
Balance of Nature contains the highest quality products you will find, in their purest form.
We are very stringent on our quality and we test all of the products we get. We do get our produce from whoever has the highest quality, even if that is from another country. Sometimes we have to get things that aren’t from the United States and don’t have the United States Organic Seal.
At Balance of Nature, we are willing to pay a higher price to get a higher grade product even if it’s not from the United States. Anyone who thinks that once youstep over the border of the United States everything is crummy, is wrong. Yes, other countries can use heavy chemicals, and you do have to be more careful. But, if we can get a higher quality product that is not from an organic farm in the United States, wouldn’t we want that in our product? We don’t always take from organic farms. They don’t have USDA Organic Seals outside of the United States, and we accept produce from other places if we can get a higher quality. We won’t accept sub-standard just because it is marked organic.
Some of the product does have to come from outside the United States, so it is rigorously tested. We test for pesticides, heavy metals, aerobic bacteria, anaerobic bacteria, and a nutritional panel. We also used to do independent testing on top of that. That’s what we test for, and we get analysis for it every time we get our stuff. We’ve had to turn away organic stuff many times before because it didn’t pass our standards. We are not biased to America, we are biased to quality. If we can get something better outside of America, we will and do.
BALANCE OF NATURE: OUR FOUNDER
At a young age Dr. Howard was highly interested in health and has always wanted to be a doctor. He started working in the St. George, Utah, ER at age 14 and got his EMT at age 16. By the time he was 18, he was certified in all modules equivalent to being a paramedic.
Dr. Howard learned homeopathy when he lived in Germany for a couple of years. And, when he returned to America, he witnessed a young lady overcome migraines by switching from pain medication to chiropractic. In the meantime, Dr. Howard’s brother became a chiropractor, and he started to open his mind to the idea of chiropractic. At that point, Dr. Howard’s goal was to take medicine and chiropractic and combine the two.
Five years later, he went to Russia and became the Dean of Foreign Student Affairs at Pavlov University for four years. While in Russia, he saw evidence where patients with certain diseases were prescribed wrongly, which accelerated their problems. He also saw how other treatments were more effective, such as fasting therapy, and cured the patients. This research did not get published in America because of the pharmaceutical industry. This changed Dr. Howard’s life, and he knew he needed to stand for what he believed in.
He didn’t set out to make a company like Balance of Nature. At first, he started truly expanding the way he thought and what he thought. He studied in clinics and hospitals in Finland, Mexico, and the Caribbean countries. He wanted to know more than what we just had here. That thirst for knowledge was so important because he wanted to know why things happened.
When Dr. Howard came back to America, he thought he would start doing holistic pediatrics. However, he found that the patients who missed and needed him the most were the older patients. Nobody was trying to do anything natural for them; they were only being put on more drugs. Most of them were on “Meals on Wheels.” He noticed the need for more nutrition. Dr. Howard decided to do geriatrics. His patients were aged 50 and over, because nobody at that time was concentrated on holistic health care for seniors, or geriatric care. Holistic care was available for pediatrics, for sports medicine, for everything else, but not for geriatric care because Medicare won’t allow it. So that’s where he started concentrating his efforts.
Dr. Howard also had a lot of interest in vitamins. The more he studied, the more he saw contradictory information. He then started to learn more about phytochemicals (plant chemicals).
Dr. Howard would follow the Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) for daily consumption of fruits and vegetables, but the recommendations continued to change. He had a hard time believing it was the right thing to do because of the constant change. It was at this time he realized where he could find the “magic chemical” and the “perfect balance”: in the food we eat—the fruits and vegetables!
He learned not to fall into fads, that extracted chemicals are not healthy, and that every isolated chemical has a side effect. Call it a vitamin, call it a drug, call it whatever you want, but every time you take an isolated chemical and put it in the system, you have a side effect. You may not notice for a long time, but there is a side effect.
With time in practice as a medical doctor, Dr. Howard started understanding and realizing what the Triad of Health was. Many times people relate the Health Triad to DaVinci’s “mind, body, spirit,” but Dr. Howard found that “mind, body, spirit” doesn’t cover it. He learned while working in the hospital that the key to most cures is education. People fear death, and they fear the unknown. Why do you think they left medicine in the Latin language for so long? To leave people in fear and in the unknown, because then they will do what you tell them to. Once you educate you will remove the fear, which sits on the spiritual side of the Triad. Health and fear can’t coexist. People in constant fear are physically and mentally sick.
After twenty years of practice, Dr. Howard realized and understood that drugs, adjustments, and physical therapy didn’t fix people. It might temporarily, but to be truly healthy you have to deal with three things. If we have a triangle that works on different areas of our health there will be: one, Chemical; two, Physical; and three, Spiritual (emotional, mental, etc.). Dr. Howard told his wife Susan one day, “People are really asking for Balance of Nature, and we have to choose.” He had a great practice and everything was solid in their life, but he knew he could help more people with Balance of Nature. They knew that if they didn’t do it they would always wish they had tried.
As a result, Dr. Howard sold both his homes, both offices, and everything they had. Susan told him if they lost it, they could do it all again, but if they didn’t they would always be sorry. Dr. Howard knew that in practice he could help thousands of people but with Balance of Nature, he could potentially help millions. This wasn’t a scheme to make money. He made the decision to move on from his beloved practice and to help people increase their nutrition and reap all the health benefits that come with that.
Read Dr. Howard’s biography to learn more.
BALANCE OF NATURE: WHY PLANT FOODS?
Many studies have shown the health benefits of eating plant foods. According to Katherine McManus, director of nutrition, director of the Dietetic Internship at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School, plant-based eating patterns have been shown to lower the risk of diseases and various health conditions such as heart disease, metabolic syndrome, diabetes, and certain cancers. [1]
Plant-based diets support health and give the body what it needs to function. “Plant-based diets offer all the necessary protein, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins, and minerals for optimal health, and are often higher in fiber and phytonutrients,” McManus states.
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine says that a plant-based diet is “a powerful way to achieve good health.” They agree that eating a variety of plant foods provides all the protein, calcium, and other essential nutrients the body needs. A plant-based diet may not only lower risk of disease, but it also supports good brain function. [2]
Plant foods are full of nutrients and low in saturated fat. Saturated fat can increase the risk of Alzheimer’s disease and other cognitive conditions. A plant-based diet excludes foods high in bad fat and includes foods rich in antioxidants, folate, and vitamin E, which may offer a protective effect. [3]
To add to that, Heather Alexander, a writer for The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, explains that a plant-based diet supports the immune system, providing vitamins, minerals, phytochemicals, and antioxidants to help keep cells healthy and the body in balance so the immune system can function at its best. [4]
All of the components in plant foods work together to fight inflammation and toxins or free radicals, which can contribute to the development of many diseases and health conditions. [5]
These benefits are really just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to eating plant foods.
Balance of Nature: Your Responsibility
Remember, your health is your responsibility! At Balance of Nature, we believe both education and accountability are necessary for people to take responsibility for their health, so we offer Health Coaching Services to our Preferred Customers at no additional cost.
BALANCE OF NATURE: FREE HEALTH COACHING
Our Health Coaching Services were developed as an ongoing source of education and support. Our goal is to support our customers in educating themselves on health-related issues and on attaining optimal health—a balance between physical, spiritual, and chemical health.
Our Process
Real Food. Real Science. Real Nutrition.
How do you get all of that produce into six capsules?
At Balance of Nature, the nutritional value of the produce within the capsules of our Fruits & Veggies is of utmost importance. Through much research, we have discovered the best possible way to get our produce from the earth to your body while losing little, if any, nutritive value. In fact, in the end our process actually delivers produce with a higher nutritive value than what you consume from any store.
Produce goes from the earth to your doorstep in ten steps:
1. Produce is grown without chemicals or GMOs.
2. The produce is picked at the peak of ripeness.
3. Every edible part of the fruit and/or vegetable is used, and the water is removed. In this step, every effort is made to avoid heat, air, and light—elements that can oxidize produce. Flash drying removes the water in more than 90 percent of the produce found in Balance of Nature. In this procedure, extreme cold facilitates the removal of the water, while a vacuum process simultaneously removes the water and air within a dark chamber.
4. The dried produce is independently tested for pesticides, bacteria, heavy metals, and nutritional content. We accept nothing but the best and purest food.
5. As the various produce arrives at our facility, it is tested on site for color, taste, and smell. This is an important test because phytonutrients are the color, taste, and smell of fruits and vegetables. If Balance of Nature technicians find the dried produce to be beautiful in color, rich in flavor, and clearly smelling of the fruits and vegetables they are, they are accepted for the Balance of Nature proprietary blends. The produce is rejected if these properties are not sufficiently present.
6. The top-quality produce is ground into extremely fine powder, never reaching a high temperature of friction. This grinding step is very important in the production of Balance of Nature Fruits & Veggies. It is not just about getting the produce as concentrated as possible so that it can get into the capsules. When we eat produce, we chew it first to increase surface area, thereby increasing nutritional absorption. However, there is much nutrition left behind in the fibrous pulp we swallow. Our bodies use what they can from the chunks of food, and the rest is used as fiber. Dr. Howard’s goal in creating Balance of Nature was not meal replacement, but absorption of nutrients that would reach 100 percent. This premastication, or pre-chewing, is key to this goal.
7. The fine powders are combined into two respective blends of sixteen different fruits and fifteen different vegetables. Each fruit and veggie in our blends was scientifically selected and combined for the most optimal effect. Which ones made the cut? Aloe vera, apple, banana, blueberry, cherry, cranberry, grape, grapefruit, lemon, mango, orange, papaya, pineapple, raspberry, strawberry, and tomato and vegetables broccoli, cabbage, carrot, cauliflower, cayenne pepper, celery stalk, garlic, kale, onion, Shiitake Mushroom, soy bean, spinach, wheat grass, sweet potato, and zucchini.
8. The blended powder is encapsulated into vegetarian capsules without the assistance of flow agents or any other added chemistry.
9. The capsules are polished, counted, bottled, sealed, and labeled.
10. The bottles are conveniently delivered to your door!
How many servings of fruits and vegetables are in the capsules?
When you take the recommended daily serving of three Balance of Nature Fruits and three Veggies, your body receives the equivalent nutrition of more than ten servings of a variety of thirty-one different fruits and vegetables. It’s like eating a huge fruit salad and a huge vegetable salad—in total, you’re getting more than ten servings of produce.
The details:
Does the phrase “nutritional equivalence” sound like it could be a trick? It is not a trick. This is how it works:
1. A balanced recipe. Think of an orange. An orange represents one serving. Once the orange has been flash dried and ground into powder, it will be in the volume of about one teaspoon. Everything is there except the water and the air. Perhaps a fraction of this teaspoon would be found in a daily serving of Fruits. The scientific blend, or recipe, developed by Dr. Howard does not use a full serving of each fruit and vegetable. Through trial and error, research, and experimentation, a precise and balanced combination was discovered. This balance is what gives us the wonderful results we enjoy today.
2. Locked-in nutrition. The unique processes we use to remove the water and air from the produce locks in 99.9 percent of the fresh fruit and vegetable nutrition. For details on these processes, see “How is the produce processed?”
3. Increased surface area. With some of the fruits and vegetables you eat, as little as 5 percent of the available nutrition will be absorbed because it has not been properly masticated, or chewed. For example, when we eat an apple we chew it; but it’s still swallowed in chunks. To some degree this inhibits the absorption of the nutrients within the apple. Because Balance of Nature Fruits & Veggies capsules contain highly nutritious produce ground into extremely fine powder, the absorption of the nutrients is greatly increased. The more total surface area there is, the more efficiently your body can harvest that wonderful nutrition and use it in building a strong health triad, thus improving overall health. When ground finely, the produce in Balance of Nature Fruits & Veggies has far greater total surface area from which to draw nutrition than does produce that has just been chewed normally.
A balanced recipe, locked-in nutrition, and increased surface area ensure that Balance of Nature delivers produce with higher nutritive value than produce consumed from the store.
Our Promise
As a company, we promise to continue producing the best, supplements processed in a way that maintains the integrity of our products.
RESEARCH
Why We Sing Praises To Fruits and Vegetables: The Science Behind Balance of Nature
We don’t push fruits and vegetables for nothing! The bedrock of any thriving business is the solid research that upholds its products. We don’t fall short in that department. Scientific studies unitedly show that eating fruits and vegetables is tied to improved health and a reduced risk of major diseases. But you don’t have to take our word for it. Read on to see just how good for you fruits and vegetables really are—and why we’ll never stop singing their praises.
Here are some studies that specifically document the health benefits of Balance of Nature Fruits & Veggies:
- A study conducted by Pavlov State Medical University (St. Petersburg, Russia) on the anticarcinogenic effects of Balance of Nature: View Study Document
- The effects of Balance of Nature upon lactation, a study by St. Petersburg (Russia) State Pediatric Medical Academy, Pathologic Physiology Department: View Study Document
- The effect of Balance of Nature on patients with cirrhosis (clinical trial): View Trial Document
And that’s just the beginning! Fruits and vegetables are known for positively impacting a myriad of conditions and diseases. To name a few:
Heart disease
Research from the United States, United Kingdom, and the Netherlands suggests that the role of fruits and vegetables in preventing heart disease is a protective one. Risk reduction was estimated as high as 20-40 percent among individuals who consumed substantial amounts of fruits and vegetables. People who were already diagnosed with coronary heart disease were able to reduce blockage modestly through exercise and an extremely low-fat, vegan-like diet rich in fruits and vegetables.
Cancer
Four in ten cancers may be preventable—and diet plays a huge role in reducing—or increasing—the risk.1 Not surprisingly, fruits and vegetables contribute to risk reduction.
Also not surprisingly, sugary drinks, fast food, and bacon do just the opposite. For cancer prevention, the World Cancer Research Fund/American Institute for Cancer Research recommends eating at least five servings of a variety of non-starchy vegetables and/or fruits every day.2 A recent report concluded that fruits and vegetables are particularly effective in preventing mouth, pharynx and larynx, oesophagus and stomach, and lung cancers.3
Studies involving patients who were taking dietary supplements in place of fruits and vegetables ended early due to a high mortality rate among the supplement users. Researchers concluded that dietary supplements (vitamin supplementation) do not have the same positive effects as eating real fruits and vegetables. Balance of Nature is real, whole fruits and vegetables!
