The first task you should undertake as soon as you come to know of your diabetes problem is to have a diet regimen that helps you in controlling this problem. But, at the same time, you should not lose sight of the nutritional aspect also because without proper nutrition, you may become susceptible to other […]
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Supplements For Digestive Health
Digestive health is necessary for one’s overall general health and is a concern for all age groups, including infants, children, baby boomers and the elderly. In particular, demand for digestive health aids has shown a significant increase amongst teens and young adults for enhancing weight loss. Factors Driving Growth of Nutritional Digestive Aids Rise in […]
Can Vitamins Make You A Fast Runner?
One of the most important ingredients a runner must stay informed about in his training is vitamins. This is even more so with the long-distance runner. A lot of iron is lost in sweat and urine. Vitamins are one thing in your diet a runner can control through proper nutrition. You want faster racing times […]
Supplementing Minerals – The Most Effective Way
For the over 10 trillion cells in your body to function and reproduce correctly – you need an extensive spectrum of vitamins, minerals and amino acids. Some of these vital substances are produced in the body but there are about 90 minerals, vitamins and amino acids (known as “essential vitamins, minerals and amino acids”) that […]
Vitamins Bad – Minerals Good
I grew up thinking that science was perfect and we knew about all of the vitamins we needed to survive. We would one day make a pill that gave us all of those vitamins and then we could eat whatever we wanted and still be healthy. Vitamin research was very important earlier in the century. […]
B-Complex Vitamins
Vitamin B used to be considered a single vitamin, like Vitamin C or D. Later findings showed that it actually consists of chemically complex and distinct vitamins that happen to have very similar properties. So today, the term ‘vitamin B-complex’ or ‘B vitamins’ is used. B-Complex vitamins include eight water soluble vitamins that take an […]
Vitamins, Minerals & Antioxidants
There is a common trend to take multi-vitamins in the morning at breakfast time. I don’t know when or where this trend started but I suspect the intention was that this is a time of day where it is easy for people to remember to take them. Apart from that I have not read anything […]
Anti-Aging Vitamins – What Really Works?
With millions of Baby Boomers now constituting an enormous market for anti-aging products, the makers of nutritional supplements have found a new way to present their products. The same vitamins and minerals that have been added to fortified foods and sold to parents as necessary for their children’s healthy development are now being marketed as […]
Vitamins and Their Role in Our Lives
Vitamins, like minerals, are an essential part of the function and health of the body system. While many vitamins serve individual purposes, the more common way for vitamins to function properly is as cofactors to or in partnership with other vitamins, minerals, nutrients and other substances in the body such as enzymes. Some of the […]