It seems like every couple years there is a new health fad or document from a government health agency which tells us that we are not getting enough vitamins and minerals in our daily diets. The question is how much do we actually need when it comes to additional vitamins and minerals to make sure […]
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Introducing Yoga Block
Use Yoga Block to Help You Further Learn Yoga Do you know the yoga block? Yoga block is a useful tool to help someone performing yoga. Usually, this kind of yoga equipment is made of a foam or cork oak trees. It is covered by a lot of small pores. The function of yoga block […]
How Vitamins Can Relieve Stress
Stress has several long-term affects on the body. The nutrients provided by the food we eat and produced within our bodies are used up more rapidly in times of stress. Therefore our bodies require additional supplementation otherwise the bodies resources will be depleted and normal function will suffer or cease. The adrenal glands are chiefly […]
Diabetes Supplies to Go
Diabetes is not a reason to forego the pleasures of travel. With some pre-trip preparation, everything is set to go. No matter if traveling by car, train, or airplane, what is most essential for all travel is to have a diabetes kit packed with more supplies than usually needed and more than enough snacks. This […]
Types of Minerals
Mineral, from the nutritional point of view, is a chemical element which is needed by the body of an organism. This is usually an element other than the four elements primarily needed by organisms- carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen. Minerals are best supplied to the organisms’ bodies by the diet they consume, specially foods rich […]
Knowing Your Recommended CoQ10 Dosage is Essential For Getting the Full Health Benefits
How do you know that you are getting the recommended CoQ10 dosage that your body needs? Usually, a normal person needs about 20-40 mg of CoQ10 in a day as the body is able to produce some by its self. However, certain factors like poor nutrition and diet, health problems, as well as some drugs […]
Fat Soluble Vitamins & Water Soluble Vitamins – What Your Body Really Needs
Aside from the vitamins we take as food supplement, our bodies also produce vitamins that are needed to perform several functions. In general, vitamins are grouped into water-soluble and fat soluble vitamins. Vitamins A, D, E, and K are fat soluable while Vitamins B and C are soluble only in water. No matter whether a […]
Minerals: Plants Need Most of Them, Too
Most of the minerals we need are the same ones plants require for their own growth. We both need: carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium, sulfur, calcium, magnesium, iron, boron, manganese, copper, zinc, molybdenum and chlorine. Plants don’t store minerals for our benefit — they use them for their own life cycles. If any of […]
Puppy Vitamins Are a Real Danger
As pet parents, we want the best for our dogs. We want them to grow up to be big and strong. But, what if they grow up to be too big, and not strong enough? That is the real danger of puppy vitamins, and recent research is pointing in that direction. The research indicates that […]
What Do Dietary Minerals Do?
The dietary minerals are a group of compounds required by the body for various processes. They are usually available from a normal diet, but nutritional supplements can be taken to make sure adequate quantities are available. This is not an exhaustive list, but describes the main actions of most common dietary minerals. Chlorides, such as […]
9 Vitamins & Supplements to Improve Your Memory
Does this describe you: You walk into the living room to get something, only to get there and forget what you needed? You often hear “Yes, you already told me about that” or maybe you thought you told someone, but you never actually verbalized it. Someone tells you their name and then ninety seconds later […]
Blood Pressure and Mean Arterial Pressure
The blood pressure in our body is always changing and it is part of the human physiology. It is very rare that someone’s blood pressure is always the same because we are always active and we are always doing different things like eating, sitting, standing, walking, breathing, moving around and doing so many other things […]
Blood Pressure Awareness
Advantage Health Physicians Network is working hard to get the word out that high blood pressure is deadly – and it can be stopped. The first step toward becoming healthier is to know your numbers. Find out as soon as possible if your blood pressure is too high and take steps to lower it. May […]