WHAT SUPPLEMENTS SHOULD I TAKE?
WHAT BRANDS SHOULD I BUY?
Scientists are now agreeing that we are not able to get adequate nutrients from the
food we eat to promote optimal health. It has been concluded that supplements must
be taken, in additional to the regular daily diet of food, in order to receive adequate
amounts of vitamins and minerals to keep our body healthy.
The RDA has made this conclusion following studies on the daily requirements of
nutrients for healthy cell life. Scientists have found that one would need to eat at least
seven servings of fruits and vegetables daily throughout one’s entire life. It was
concluded that humans require 400 IU’s of Vitamin E, an essential nutrient for various
functions of the body. In order to get that amount of Vitamin E, one would require 3 ½
pounds of broccoli, or 2 ½ pounds of almonds, or a quart of safflower seed oil daily.
These quantities of food, everyone will agree, would be impossible to consume.
In scientific studies proper food and supplementation has:
* Given human blood more antioxidant power.
* Prevented long-term memory loss.
* Helped to preserve learning ability in middle age.
* Protected tiny blood vessels from free radical damage.
You could feel stronger, smarter, and healthier when you supplement your diet. Do
it, with a naturally sourced food supplement that gives you the nutrients your diet
could now be missing in just a few tablets and capsules. The top rated supplements
and nutritionals are a cornucopia of fruit, vegetables, fish and meat:
* Quality supplements, taken daily, get to work in less than an hour, so your body can
benefit immediately, even if the benefits are not felt immediately.
* Daily Supplements with the highest ranking, give you nutrients you lack...nutrients
you need...even if you're on a low-carb diet or a low fat diet.
* Yes, daily supplements can help you avoid memory loss, heart problems, eye
conditions, and cell abnormalities that can lead to many awful diseases.
Now you can get all the health benefits of the foods we normally eat, such as
cabbage, brussels sprouts, beets, broccoli, carrots, garlic, spinach, leeks, cranberry,
blueberry, raspberry, and on and on, without eating pounds of them. That is not to
suggest we can stop eating altogether. We can still eat healthy foods and retain our
healthy diets, but we can be assured that we are getting the daily nutrients we require,
the vitamins, minerals, anti oxidants, etc. by adding a few scientifically produced tablets.
I'm willing to bet there are some foods on this planet you've never heard of, let
alone eaten. Take those deep purple elderberries, for example. They're never sold in
the supermarket!
And there are foods high in some minerals which are unavailable on this continent,
such as Wakame. It's a seaweed, eaten often in Japan, where they have much lower
rate for certain kinds of cancer than we do.
Now we can all eat the foods that we enjoy and still get the nutrients we require
with quality supplements and nutrients. They can combat free radicals and make you
feel better, remember better, and live healthier.
Not All Vitamins are Created Equal:
“What brand of vitamins should I buy?" is the question we often ask. Nutritionists
and medical authorities have never been able to provide any good answer with so
many brands available....that is not until now. Lyle MacWilliam, author, educator and
biochemist, wrote "A comparative Guide to Nutritional Supplements”, a compendium
of over 1500 products available in the United States and Canada.
Dr. W. Gifford Jones, at First Canadian Medical Centre, and writer of a syndi-
cated column in a number of newspapers, after having read the book, stated, "I
was shocked to learn that some well-known brands I'd often purchased, failed to
make the grade. MacWilliam used the published recommendations of the seven
nutritional authorities to determine what vitamins, minerals and other nutrients
should be present in a multivitamin pill considering our state of scientific knowledge.
He then analyzed over 1500 nutritional supplements sold in Canada and the United
States. In the 2006 edition of the book the scores ranged from 0 to 96.1, the perfect
score being 100. Surprisingly, most of the multivitamins being sold in pharmacys
and stores were among the lowest scores, and yes, there were many that had a
zero rating.
The importance of quality:
MacWilliam says the quality is a function of price; in other words, you get what you
pay for. He says that in terms of purity, safety and quality there is no problem with the
low scoring brands. The problem in the low rated products, however, is that their
potency is based on old outdated recommended daily allowances (RDAs). They do
not recognize that most people today fall short of recommended nutritional intake of
fresh fruits and vegetables. MacWilliam notes these old potencies were developed
50 years ago to avoid diseases such as scurvy and rickets. But these strengths fall
woefully short of meeting the nutritional needs of today's toxic world. Now we are
talking about optimal health.
And, there are more reasons that make these low ranking supplements
different. MacWilliam says that many of these popular products do not contain
the full spectrum of minerals, or fail to use bioavailable chelated minerals that
are more easily absorbed. Or if they contain the right minerals their potency is
below ideal standards.
He cited other cases in which popular brands fail to fully look after cardiac health.
For instance, they contain synthetic vitamin E rather than natural vitamin E, have
insufficient magnesium and no coenzyme Q10, all three vital to proper functioning of
the heart.
Undoubtedly the low rated supplements are cheaper to produce, and this equates
to the final price to the consumer. Most consumers are not aware of the vast difference
in nutritional supplements and continue to buy products that they believe to be adequate.
It is important in buying supplements for the family that they don't buy a product just
because it's cheap. When it comes to this expenditure, there's an old saying, "Health
is Wealth". Regardless of the amount of money in anybody’s bank account, it can never
come close to the enjoyment of good health.
If you would like to get more information about the rated nutritionals sold in North
America, you can order your copy of "Comparative Guide to Nutritional Supplements".
Check it on your search engine.
Incidentally, I can just hear some people saying, “This is another sales pitch for
the book". Just to clarify that suspicion, I will not make a penny from the sale of Mr.
MacWilliams book. I don't know him or have had any association with him, other than
having read his book, which I recommend to anyone interested in the Supplement
market. The information in the book has been accepted in other countries and used
it in other books as a reference for their readers.
