Post by Indilwen on Mar 19, 2012 15:12:49 GMT 12
Are Multivitamins Effective In Maintaining Good Health?
Every person has their own idea on what health is and what role nutrition plays in getting healthy and staying that way. Every day we read some article by some 'expert' who has come up with another diet to follow.
There's ideas on low fat diets, high protein diets, low carbohydrate diets, good oils and bad oils, raw food diets, vegetarian vegan diets, no sugar diets, and many more. But all agree that highly processed foods with or without trans fats are not good for us.
No matter how many theories come forward the statistics tell us that the majority of the population is still getting sick - and many of these people think they are well when they are suddenly stricken.
Heart disease is still #1, although cancer is fast catching up and medical misadventure is in the #3 slot.
Let's face it, the Western world's complex processed food diet, combined with stressful living and pollution in its many deadly forms is not achieving health results. For example, in New Zealand 8 out of 10 women are now being diagnosed with breast cancer!
Most people know more about what fuel to put into their car, than they do about what fuel to put into their own bodies. What is the first step towards feeling healthier and staying that way?
The better you feel within yourself, the more motivated you become to find out more about the quality of food you are eating each day and how nutrition works to keep you healthy.
So what is this first step towards feeling healthier?
The most simple step to bring better vitality and well being into your life is supplementing your current diet with REAL RAW WHOLE FOOD. This is the first very easy and simple step towards feeling less tired.
It is also AFFORDABLE and rewarding. Most people find changing their food choices is harder than changing their lifestyle. It normally takes about two years for a person to completely change his/her food choices.
But you are probably thinking I am already supplementing with dietary supplements. Why should I change? Many dietary supplements are in tablet form and contain synthetic vitamins unless stated otherwise. The body is not designed to recognize synthetic vitamins as nutrition. If you are taking synthetic vitamin supplements, your body is using up lots of energy each day in getting rid of the vitamins without using them for repair and maintenance.
It's a bit like putting a tiny bit of water in the petrol of your car. Your engine will cough and splutter until the water evaporates. If you repeat this process every day, the water will eventually damage your engine.
The majority of tablets are manufactured with some type of coating, have binding substances mixed into the formulas to keep the contents compact, and/or use some other method to prevent ingredient disintegration.
Many tablets are also heat treated during the manufacturing process to compress ingredients into the correct hardness, size and shape. Because of manufacturing processes, tablets can sometimes prove too difficult for the digestive system - especially an impaired or sensitive digestive system - to break down and digest.
These tablets have been known to go straight through the body’s digestive system whole - without even the coating being broken! Relatively inexpensive multi-vitamin tablets purchased over the counter usually contain only a limited number of low cost metallic mineral salts that are supposed to break down and be absorbed by the intestinal tract. This rarely happens, however, and even when they do break apart they form positively charged metallic ions that are repelled by the positively charged lining of the digestive system (just like a magnet).
Low cost multivitamin tablets usually contain only 8-14 of the 60+ minerals needed by your body daily. Absorption rate is between 8-12 per cent - or less if you are over 40).
Chelated mineral tablets contain raw metallic minerals but have a larger negatively charged organic molecule, i.e. an amino acid attached to them. This compound is electrochemically attracted to the lining of the digestive tract and is thus more readily absorbed. These minerals can still suffer from not fully dissolving as they pass through the digestive tract, especially if the processing method used is not state-of-the-art.
Chelated minerals contain usually contain only 8-14 of the 60+ minerals needed by the body daily. Absorption up to 45 per cent depending on the process method used.
Plants absorb raw metallic minerals through the root system and convert them into a form that the human body can utilize. Once converted by plants, the minerals become colloidal minerals because of their size – they are very, very small. Plant colloidal minerals are water soluble, negatively charged and immediately absorbed. In this form, minerals work with, not against the natural body absorption process and are readily utilized by the body's cells, tissues and fluids.
However small the concentration content of some, they are all essential for life. Without sufficient minerals our bodies cannot convert vitamins.
Plant-based Organically Grown Powder or Liquid Colloidal Minerals contain at least all of the 60+ minerals needed by the human body daily. Absorption is between 95-98 percent.
Powders can be easily hydrated with healthy liquids, including pure water, or organic raw fruit or vegetable juices for consumption.
Capsules can either be broken open and emptied into liquid or taken whole orally.
Apart from the assimilation and nutritional advantages over tablets, concentrated powder and capsules, or naturally fermented or cold percolated liquid herbal products are more economical, more effective and better value for money spent.
SO HERE'S TO YOUR HEALTH!
source: www.organicbeautyworld.com.au/fyi/multiv.php
Every person has their own idea on what health is and what role nutrition plays in getting healthy and staying that way. Every day we read some article by some 'expert' who has come up with another diet to follow.
There's ideas on low fat diets, high protein diets, low carbohydrate diets, good oils and bad oils, raw food diets, vegetarian vegan diets, no sugar diets, and many more. But all agree that highly processed foods with or without trans fats are not good for us.
No matter how many theories come forward the statistics tell us that the majority of the population is still getting sick - and many of these people think they are well when they are suddenly stricken.
Heart disease is still #1, although cancer is fast catching up and medical misadventure is in the #3 slot.
Let's face it, the Western world's complex processed food diet, combined with stressful living and pollution in its many deadly forms is not achieving health results. For example, in New Zealand 8 out of 10 women are now being diagnosed with breast cancer!
Most people know more about what fuel to put into their car, than they do about what fuel to put into their own bodies. What is the first step towards feeling healthier and staying that way?
The better you feel within yourself, the more motivated you become to find out more about the quality of food you are eating each day and how nutrition works to keep you healthy.
So what is this first step towards feeling healthier?
The most simple step to bring better vitality and well being into your life is supplementing your current diet with REAL RAW WHOLE FOOD. This is the first very easy and simple step towards feeling less tired.
It is also AFFORDABLE and rewarding. Most people find changing their food choices is harder than changing their lifestyle. It normally takes about two years for a person to completely change his/her food choices.
But you are probably thinking I am already supplementing with dietary supplements. Why should I change? Many dietary supplements are in tablet form and contain synthetic vitamins unless stated otherwise. The body is not designed to recognize synthetic vitamins as nutrition. If you are taking synthetic vitamin supplements, your body is using up lots of energy each day in getting rid of the vitamins without using them for repair and maintenance.
It's a bit like putting a tiny bit of water in the petrol of your car. Your engine will cough and splutter until the water evaporates. If you repeat this process every day, the water will eventually damage your engine.
The majority of tablets are manufactured with some type of coating, have binding substances mixed into the formulas to keep the contents compact, and/or use some other method to prevent ingredient disintegration.
Many tablets are also heat treated during the manufacturing process to compress ingredients into the correct hardness, size and shape. Because of manufacturing processes, tablets can sometimes prove too difficult for the digestive system - especially an impaired or sensitive digestive system - to break down and digest.
These tablets have been known to go straight through the body’s digestive system whole - without even the coating being broken! Relatively inexpensive multi-vitamin tablets purchased over the counter usually contain only a limited number of low cost metallic mineral salts that are supposed to break down and be absorbed by the intestinal tract. This rarely happens, however, and even when they do break apart they form positively charged metallic ions that are repelled by the positively charged lining of the digestive system (just like a magnet).
Low cost multivitamin tablets usually contain only 8-14 of the 60+ minerals needed by your body daily. Absorption rate is between 8-12 per cent - or less if you are over 40).
Chelated mineral tablets contain raw metallic minerals but have a larger negatively charged organic molecule, i.e. an amino acid attached to them. This compound is electrochemically attracted to the lining of the digestive tract and is thus more readily absorbed. These minerals can still suffer from not fully dissolving as they pass through the digestive tract, especially if the processing method used is not state-of-the-art.
Chelated minerals contain usually contain only 8-14 of the 60+ minerals needed by the body daily. Absorption up to 45 per cent depending on the process method used.
Plants absorb raw metallic minerals through the root system and convert them into a form that the human body can utilize. Once converted by plants, the minerals become colloidal minerals because of their size – they are very, very small. Plant colloidal minerals are water soluble, negatively charged and immediately absorbed. In this form, minerals work with, not against the natural body absorption process and are readily utilized by the body's cells, tissues and fluids.
However small the concentration content of some, they are all essential for life. Without sufficient minerals our bodies cannot convert vitamins.
Plant-based Organically Grown Powder or Liquid Colloidal Minerals contain at least all of the 60+ minerals needed by the human body daily. Absorption is between 95-98 percent.
Powders can be easily hydrated with healthy liquids, including pure water, or organic raw fruit or vegetable juices for consumption.
Capsules can either be broken open and emptied into liquid or taken whole orally.
Apart from the assimilation and nutritional advantages over tablets, concentrated powder and capsules, or naturally fermented or cold percolated liquid herbal products are more economical, more effective and better value for money spent.
SO HERE'S TO YOUR HEALTH!
source: www.organicbeautyworld.com.au/fyi/multiv.php