Here is the final installment of the series. I hope that these give you a better picture of how to be sure that the supplements that you take are actually doing their work in your body so you can have more optimal levels of health. If you have not read Part one and Part two, please click on them to read what came first.
► Is the nutrient available for absorption at the right place in your digestive tract? This is an important question that few labels or product catalogs answer. Some liquid supplements claim to be absorbed better than a tablet, however, some vitamins and nutrients are best absorbed in specific and different parts of the intestinal tract Although a liquid vitamin would be digested all at once, it may not actually provide for the absorption of some of the nutrients at the right place.
There are sublingual vitamins and here again, (more…)
Here are a few more things to consider if you want to be sure
that the vitamins you use are not exiting your body in
the same shape that they went in! Watch for part 3.
If you haven’t read part one, please click here.
Are other nutrient(s) present that enhance or detract from absorption and effectiveness?
An example of this is iron, a difficult mineral for the body to absorb in supplement form. An iron supplement is far better absorbed if it is combined with vitamin C. Calcium is best combined with Magnesium and a number of other vitamins and minerals for best absorption.
You often hear that we should not use iron with vitamin C, Calcium or with B Complex. That is contrary (more…)
I was asked this question in a comment on a recent blog. This is an excellent question, because the honest answer is that sometimes we might not know and we don’t know how well we will assimilate.
I will be breaking this into about three posts because there is a lot of information needed to help you to make sure that you are getting the best value for your money.
As in other areas, individuals differ in their absorption of nutrients. For example, (more…)
What do you think?If you answered that one of these is the most important vitamin for you:
A, B, C, D, E or K, you are only partially right.
Our own nutritional guru shared a wise answer to this question. Think about it and you’ll realize how true that it is.
The most important vitamin for you is (more…)
On February 5, 1997, I decided to try an experiment. Al and I had attended a nutrition presentation in which the speaker described the “preservative” qualities of McDonald’s hamburgers, buns and French fries. The speaker told us of her McDonald’s hamburger that appeared to have the gift of eternal life. (more…)
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Our blog this time is actually an article by Dr. Stephen Cheney, a professor at the University of North Carolina, who has also been involved in cancer research for years and has over 80 journal articles to his credit.
About the Author
wDr. Chaney has a BS in Chemistry from Duke University and a PhD in Biochemistry from UCLA. He currently holds the rank wof Professor at a major university where runs an active cancer research program and has published over 100 scientific warticles and reviews in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
wDr. Chaney and his wife have also built a business part time that has earned them a 6 -figure income for the past 15 years wand he has spent the last 10 years teaching other people how to do the same.
wWe have been in the same business for almost forty-one years. His work really validates what we teach as well.
To read more of his work go to: https://socialmarketingconnection.com/
The following is an e-mail that Dr. Chaney sent out. (more…)
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I am concerned that my Caveat Emptor series may have scared people a bit. So this blog focuses on items of awareness that can keep you out of trouble. We have all heard the advice to shed our bad habits and replace them with good habits. This is important for success in virtually all aspects of life; but too few of us apply it when it comes to eating. If you haven’t read parts 1 – 3 yet, here are the links so you can catch up and follow along better: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Here is a five item self-test. The only scorer is you, so be honest with yourself. (more…)
I promised that I would give you nine general guidelines on how to optimize food choices for health and here they are.
1. Remember the food chain & buy organic foods. If the animal or plant that we eat has been fed chemicals and drugs or sprayed with toxins, it is generously passed on to us. In the U.S., beef, pigs and poultry are fed genetically modified corn to get fat quick and are also fed antibiotics. Additionally, their foods often contain parts of other (more…)
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What a strange question! Many products that we call “foods” are far from natural- and, if we expect to have nutritional value in foods, are really far from even being food. Foods that are adulterated with pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and a myriad of chemical agents for coloring, taste, preservation, texture, etc. are legally allowed to be called “natural”! Some so-called foods are virtually all chemicals, with no nutritive value.
In fact on balance, many, if not all, of these “foods” present more negative effects than positive. A little known fact is that a company that processes (more…)
Of course you do, but you’re bombarded with all kinds of “information”. Now you don’t know who or what to listen to.
We have three purposes in presenting this series.
First, we want you to know that you don’t have to know all of the answers to make healthful choices.
Second, we will provide simple guidelines that will help you make more healthful decisions.
Third, we want to encourage you to learn a few basics that go beyond just the simple guidelines.
When we were young, before many consumer protection regulations were in place, the
Latin term Caveat Emptor, meaning, “Let the buyer beware,” was a legal standard in
settling many consumer complaints. Basically, Caveat Emptor asserted that (more…)
