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.  …

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 …

How Do We Know If Our Body Will Assimilate The Expensive Vitamins That We Buy?  Part 1
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 …

Which Is The Most Important Vitamin For You?

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

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.

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Eureka…Here’s an answer for all of us!
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 …

So, you want to be healthy?

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 …

 
Written by my guest columnist, my husband Al
Hi, I’ll bet that many of you had the same experiences with peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and may even have carried on the tradition with your own kids, as did Sandy and I.
Day after day, I walked to school, carrying my sandwich in my lunch bag.   It always tasted good, and I still enjoy this delicacy (though not every day for lunch.)  Being interested in the healthfulness of what I eat, I recently Googled for a listing of FDA recalls.  If you haven’t …

Today I really want to talk to all you moms and would be moms out there. Why? Who makes most of the food purchases? Who chooses the type and brand of food supplements or vitamins? Who is Doctor Mom when child or husband has a tummy ache? Dr. Mom is a role we take seriously.
Over the last 40 years of teaching about health, non-toxic products for the home and nutrition, I have learned a lot. Over the years, as a result of my training, we have changed …

 
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AND…ONCE WE FIND THEM,
WHAT DO WE DO ABOUT THEM?
For about 49 years, learning about health and nutrition has absorbed me, much as I enjoy being absorbed in a good mystery. I would love to have you join me in looking at some health information from the vantage of a “nutrition detective”.
My husband, Al, recently showed me a Wellness Newsletter that his former employer sent to retirees. We read an article that is entitled, CANCER: Control Your Risk Factors, and when we finished we agreed that there was some very good …

Whooeee!     What A Ride!
A little over 40 years ago, I had a significant awakening. I was in my 30s, mother of five and intent of caring for my family’s health. I was a firm believer in “doctor knows best.” I was also a good customer to our friendly druggist – who was a wonderful person -, and I was an “expert consumer” of antihistamines for my daily allergies. I was also prepared and competent to deal with four children, a husband, and me becoming ill whenever the fifth got a …

 
Not Mine! 
What About Yours?
Well!  This information really knocked my socks off!
I received this email yesterday and was so disturbed that I felt I had to print it in my blog.  This is something that everyone who uses vitamins must be aware of.   I always try to make sure that when I post something that has negative connotations, I always include some possible alternatives and I have done so here as well. 
I hope this helps us to be more diligent in our choice of food supplement manufacturers and that if you …

http://www.naturalnews.com/025768_cancer_mammograms.html
For nearly forty years I have chosen to use natural nutritional ways of healing and prevention rather than use medical procedures unless absolutely essential.  Thus far, my studies about nutrition have stood me in great stead as the only times I have had to resort to the services of a doctor are two different times when I fell and broke a wrist.   As I became aware of the use of mammography I wanted to know more about it.  Because of what I learned at least 20 years ago I made …

If you have Breast Cancer, have you been warned  AGAINST using Soy Protein?
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If your answer is YES, then you have been misinformed. Here is some information intended to help clear up the confusion regarding whether soy is a “good” food or a “bad” food for you.  (Be sure to read the post  titled Soy may reduce diabetes risk in overweight women on some new information about the benefits of soy).
First of all, it is important to know the reason why women have been warned against using soy if …

AND… most women
are responsible for
the health of their
whole family!
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Years ago the author of a course in nutrition advised that if you want to find the origin of most health your health problems – go a mirror open your mouth and view the hole.  Think about what you put in to that hole, which is the entryway to feeding or poisoning your body.  Is that hard to take?  It places the responsibility for our health squarely on our own shoulders.  In the U.S. today, it is so easy …