In every healthfood store and supermarket you can find a range of vitamins, minerals and
other supplements these days and all are claiming to be the best.

How can you distinguish which ones are true-to-label, potent, bio-available, made of the
best forms of the nutrients and right for you?

The average consumer determine by price what the best value is, without understanding the subtitle, yet profound differences between nutritional products.
The majority of multi-vitamins are woefully inadequate.

Effective potency is only the first problem.Different nutrients vary widely in price.
Iron sulfate for example,costs only pennies, whereas pure biotin costs around $6000 per
pound, wholesale. You can understand how this influences formulations.

Different forms of the same nutrient can also vary in a 20-fold price range.
For example, a pill reading: “Vitamin E as mixed tocopherol complex, 400 IU”, can contain
anything from a cheap blend of 50% tocopherols and 50% vegetable oil, to a very
expensive blend of 95% tocopherols and 5% vegetable oil.The only guide you have as a
consumer is the retail price.

But price is not infallible. The only way you can know the truth about many forms of
nutrients is to ask independent experts, government and university scientists.

Author, educator and consultant, Lyle Mac William, a former Canadian Member of Parliament, serving as the behest of Canada’s federal Minister of Health,developed the “Comparative Guide to Nutritional Supplements.

He undertook a review of over 250 U.S. and Canadian nutritional supplements for their
nutrient content. The evidence indicated that the USANA Essentials formulation clearly
surpassed the other evaluated products.

As the demand for copies of the work and requests to investigate additional nutritional
supplements grew, it was clear that there was an earnest need for a comprehensive and
objective comparison of nutritional products; hence, the Comparative Guide to Nutritional
Supplements was born, followed by the Comparative Guide to Children’s Nutritionals.

In developing his comparative guide, Lyle Mac William felt it imperative to provide an
independent standard to which all products – including the USANA Essentials – could be
compared objectively and quantitatively. In this edition he has used the recommendations
of four recognized and published authorities on nutritional supplementation.
The individual daily-intake recommendations of DRs. Michael Colgan, Michael Murray,
Richard Passwater and Ray Strand have been combined to create an independent comparative model.

It provides a comprehensive ans scientifically rigorous evaluation of name-brand
nutritional products, packet with the latest findings from the cutting edge of nutritional
science. For those, interested in optimizing their health by selecting only the best,
this guide is a must.

In Mass- production of food, during the process of ripening, storing, drying, cooking,
freezing, blanching, pasteurization, hydrogenation, ultra-fibration and multiple other
practices of modern food processing, our already degraded foods produced by NPK fertilizers on depleted soils, are further deprived from their essential nutrients.

The latest RDA handbook, the official government handbook stating  the quality of our
food, reviews hundreds of studies, showing that the already degraded crops of today may
lose even what’s left over of nutrients after harvesting, before it reaches your dinner table.

Here follows some examples of the evidence from the RDA handbook:
* Vitamin E: “the tocopherol content of foods varies greatly depending on processing,
storage and preparation procedures during which large losses may occur” (p101).
* Vitamin C: “may be considerably lower because of destruction by heat and oxygen”(p117).
* Vitamin B6: “50-70% is lost in processing meats and 50-90% is lost in milling cereals”(p144).
* Folic acid: “as much as 50% may be destroyed during household preparation, food processing   and storage” (p150).
* Magnesium: “more than 80% is lost by removal of the germ and outer layers of
cereal grains”(p189).

Next time when you eat a slice of bread, realize that the germ and outer layers of grains
are removed in the manufacturing process of all white and so-called “enriched” flours.

You must realize that these facts are not from some scary media report but from the official handbook, Recommended Dietary Allowances, published in November 1989 by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. They are the latest official facts on nutrition.

Here follows some more evidence from authorities in food science to show the nutrient losses by food processing.

Dr. Robert Harris, Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry at MIT describes in his “Nutritional
evaluation of Food Processing”, destruction of nutrients in vegetables by modern cold storage.
Stored grapes lose up to 30% of their B vitamins. Tangerins stored for 8 weeks, can lose
almost half their vitamin C. Asparagus stored for a week, loses up to 90% of its vitamin C.

Any time you eat an apple and see the flesh turn brown within a few minutes, it a sign that
the apple has oxidized in storage and has lost most of its vitamins.

Dr. Theodore Labuza, Professor of Food Technology at the University of Minnesota, recently reviewed studies showing up to 90% loss of thiamin in the drying of meats and losses of up to one-third of pyridoxine and pantothenic acid in freeze-drying of fish.

Professor Darryl Lund of the Department of Food Science of the University of Wisconsin,
shows that the process of blanching , commonly applied to vegetables and fish, can destroy one-third to one-half of their content of thianin, riboflavin, niacin, pyridoxine and vitamin. C.
Similar large losses of B vitamins and vitamin C occur in the pasteurization and
ultra filtration of milk.

Dr Henry Schroeder, foremost American authority on nutrient content of foods, has proved that freezing of meats can destroy up to 50% of their thiamin and riboflavin content and 70% of their pantothenic acid content.

These are some small examples of the evidence. If you add up all the nutrient losses that
have accrue to our food since the late 1940’s, there is not much left.
First came the degradation of the soils by use of NPK fertilizers, depriving us from the
minerals which are essential to human health. Then came the development of nutrient-poor hybrid strains of grains and vegetables that would grow better on NPK.

Finally the methods of modern food processing have deprived from our food much of its
remaining nutrients. By the time it reaches your table, it is hard to determine the
nutritional value of any food that you put in your mouth.

One more reason, besides our toxic environment of polluted air and water,and the generation of free radicals caused by our stressed lifestyle, causing oxidative stress,
to supplement our diet with first grade nutritional supplements.
There is no better way to find what is proven to be the best supplements on the market,
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By Thomas M. Campbell, MD

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Antioxidants – Bodyguards for Your Cells

If you want to know how antioxidants work, picture yourself as the president, a king or queen, a movie star, or another well-known figure.

A threat to your safety could pop up at any time – and that’s why you have a team of bodyguards surrounding you. If a source of danger comes your way,
your bodyguards are trained to swoop in and get between you and this threat.
Your protectors are willing to suffer the consequences themselves, just to keep you from getting hurt.

Every day, the DNA in each cell in your body faces about 10,000 attacks from cell-damaging forces known as free radicals , which are unstable oxygen molecules that have lost an electron.
Free radicals are naturally produced as your body turns fuel to energy, but you also get them from pollution in air and water, stress, smoking and radiation from the sun.
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If you want to know how antioxidants work, picture yourself as the president,
a king or queen, a movie star, or another well-known figure.

A threat to your safety could pop up at any time – and that’s why you have
a team of bodyguards surrounding you. If a source of danger comes your way,
your bodyguards are trained to swoop in and get between you and this threat.
Your protectors are willing to suffer the consequences themselves, just to keep
you from getting hurt.

Every day, the DNA in each cell in your body faces about 10,000 attacks from
cell-damaging forces known as free radicals , which are unstable oxygen
molecules that have lost an electron. Free radicals are naturally produced
as your body turns fuel to energy, but you also get them from pollution in air
and water, stress, smoking and radiation from the sun.

These volatile molecules cruise around your body trying to stabilize themselves
by stealing electrons from other molecules. When they succeed, they create
still more free radicals, causing a sort of snowballing procession of damage.

Free radicals don’t just occasionally pop up here and there. Up to 5% of the
oxygen that each cell uses is converted into free radicals.

Free radical damage is thought to play a role in the accumulation of low-density
lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol and the lining of your artery walls.
This can lead to a narrowing of the arteries called atherosclerosis, which
contributes to heart disease. And when free radicals damage DNA inside the cells,
the results can be cell mutations that lead to cancer.

Free radical assaults on your eyes may lead to cataracts and macular degeneration,
which are common causes of vision loss in people over 50 years of age.
Researchers think that free-radical damage – also called “oxidative stress” –
play an important role in Alzheimer’s disease. And many scientists believe that
free radicals are the primary force behind aging itself.

Free radicals can develop and quickly attack your cells faster than the blink of an eye.
And unless something is immediately available to “step in,” this free-radical
free-for-all can cause irreparable damage. That’s where antioxidants come in.

Remember that analogy, in which you where a famous person preyed upon
by harmful threats? Those bodyguards forming a human shield around you are
the oxidants in your system. Every time you eat fruits, vegetables, or other
antioxidant-rich foods, a flood of these protective compounds enters your bloodstream.

They travel throughout your body, stepping between your body’s healthy cells and
the pillaging free radicals, offering up their own electrons to neutralize the free radicals
and keep your cells out of harm’s way.

The Big Antioxidant Nutrients
Just as your body produces free radicals, it also produces antioxidants. Some of these are enzymes created solely to squelch free radicals. But these defenders can be overwhelmed if you’re under serious attack – from car exhaust or cigaret smoke, for example – and they may be insufficient to handle rising levels of free radical attacks as you get older.

Every day, a small percentage of free radicals slip past your natural antioxidant defenses,allowing them to do damage.
That’s why you regularly need to call in the reserves to supplement your own forces:
antioxidant compounds from your diet. There are literally hundreds of natural food compounds that act as antioxidants in your body.

Though researchers are investigating new antioxidant compounds every day, most scientific study has focused on three types in particular – vitamin C and E and carotenoids.

There is no doubt that antioxidants play a crucial role in reducing the risk for all kinds of diseases,” says Roc Ordman, PhD, professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Beloit College in Beloit, Wisconsin. “The published scientific evidence is simply overwhelming.”

There is no better way to protect yourself against free radical damage than to take a multi vitamin from USANA Health Sciences. You can find them by visiting my website:
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There are some foods that make us sleepy, while others give us energy to burn.
It’s only in recent years, however, that scientists have begun to understand why.
The answer, as it often does, begins in the brain.

To a large extent our feeling, moods, and energy levels are controlled by neurons
nerve cells in the brain that communicate with the help of chemical messengers
called neurotransmitters. Studies have shown that changes in the levels of
neurotransmitters such as dopamine and norepinephrine can dramatically affect
energy levels, which is why they are sometimes called wake-up chemicals.

Studies show that people tend to think more quickly and feel more motivated
and energetic when their brains are producing large amounts of theses chemicals.
Our diet provide the raw materials needed for the production of these neurotransmitters.

What we eat – or don’t – can play a large role in how we feel.
“We’re talking about a whole symphony of brain chemicals that ebb and flow
throughout the day,” says Elizabeth Somer, RD, author of Food and Mood and
Nutrition for Women.

The building block for dopamine and norepinephrine, for example, is the amino acid
tyrosine. Tyrosine levels are elevated when you eat high protein foods, such as fish,
chicken, or low-fat yogurt.

“Make sure to eat some protein along with carbohydrates at each meal or snack,”
says Molly Kimball, RD, a sports and lifestyle nutritionist at the Ochner Health
System’s Elmwood Fitness Center in New Orleans.

For instance, instead of having whole-wheat toast with jelly or fruit with juice
for breakfast, have whole-wheat toast with peanut butter or fruit with cottage cheese.
The carbohydrates alone cause a rapid release of blood sugar and a rapid drop in
energy, but the protein helps even that out.”

You don’t have to eat huge amounts of protein to get the energizing effects.
Eating just 3 to 4 ounces of protein-rich food, like a broiled chicken breast or
a hard-boiled egg “feeds” your brain enough tyrosine to get the dopanine and
norepinephrine flowing.

Even though protein-rich foods can help boost energy, the fats that often come
with them can drag you down. Digesting fats diverts blood from the brain,
which can make you feel sluggish. So don’t overload a turkey sandwich with
igh-fat cheese and mayonnaise; dress it with mustard, lettuce, and tomatoes
instead, recommends Somer.

Dietary blood sugar control
When we eat foods that contain carbohydrates, the carbohydrates are digested in the stomach and intestines and are absorbed into the bloodstream, generally in the form of glucose. The glucose in the blood stimulates the pancreas to excrete a hormone – insulin – into the blood. Insulin helps the body’s cells to absorb the glucose and to use it for energy; insulin levels rise and fall with the levels of blood glucose.

When the carbohydrates we eat cause the blood sugar to quickly rise to high levels, excess insulin can cause too much sugar to be absorbed by the cells. This results in a condition of low blood sugar. The subsequent stress on the body stimulates the adrenal glands to secrete hormones into the blood.Metabolism rises, glucose is manufactured from stores in the liver, and the entire body may be activated in what is called “fight-or-flight response.”

The glycemic index is a classification of carbohydrates based on their potential for raising
blood glucose levels. Those foods that result in rapid rise in blood sugar and therefore, in insulin, have a high glycemic index. Carbohydrates that are broken down slowly and cause only a moderate increase in blood sugar have a low glycemic index. Some carbohydrates fall in between.

A study from the New york Obesity Research Center shows that after eating a breakfast of oatmeal, a food with a low glycemic index, subjects were not as hungry at lunch time as those who had a breakfast of sugared cornflakes. The sugared cornflakes breakfast, equal in calorie content to the oatmeal, left subjects as hungry as a control group that had only water for breakfast.

These groups tended to eat more at lunch compared to those who ate an oatmeal breakfast. Oatmeal , of course, also provides benefits due to its high fiber content.

The primary goal – for not only diabetics, but for everyone – is to maintain a relatively stable blood glucose level, and thereby to prevent the “rebound” effect of insulin spikes.Chronically high or very low levels of blood glucose can be dangerous to anyone. High glycemic foods have also been shown to increase appetite and to indirectly effect cholesterol levels. In addition, a high level of insulin signals the cells of the body to absorb the extra blood sugar and to store some of it as carbohydrate in your liver and muscle cells
(in the form of glycogen) and the rest in your fat cells ( on  buttocks, hips, abdomen etc.)

Becoming familiar with the glycemic index of the foods you eat can help you plan your diet.
Tables of the glycemic index are available for most common foods, including in the LEAN section of the USANA internet site. As always, informing yourself is key to providing your body with optimal nutrition.

The statements of this publication have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent disease.

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Mindful Eating for Balance

How would you define the term balanced living? For some people, it may mean that all the necessary “pieces” of their life are in place. Perhaps they are healthy and live with minimal stress, worry, or sadness. Perhaps they have mastered the art of mindful eating and that has positively impacted other areas of their lives.read it all….

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Stress is all around us, and food provides a welcome, if momentary break.
Unfortunately, the foods we often turn to in times of stress, like coffee and sweets,
have a way of making us feel even more frazzled later on.

It doesn’t have to be this way. Research has shown that eating more of some foods
and less of others can cause stress hormones in the body to decline.
Making slight changes in your diet will produce physical changes in the brain that
can make the world’s problems just a little bit easier to handle.

Researchers have found that food high in carbohydrates produce changes in the brain
that can take the edge of stress.

During emotionally trying times, our brain uses up its supply of serotonin, a chemical
that imparts feelings of well-being. When serotonin levels fall, negative feelings
tend to rise.

Eating foods that are high in carbohydrates, like pasta, bagels or baked potatoes,
can quickly rise low serotonin levels, making you feel less stresses and more relaxed.
As serotonin levels rise, appetite usually decreases, which means that you are
less likely to eat your way through hard times.

Research found that foods high in vitamin B6, such as bananas, potatoes and prunes,
can relieve irritability and stress, making you feel just a little bit better.

In one study, Dr. Tecce and his colleagues at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition
Research Center on Aging at Tufts University in Boston lowered vitamin B6 levels
in a group of volunteers. The people became increasingly irritable and tense.

Vitamin B6 improves mood by raising levels of dopamine, a chemical in the brain
that is related to feeling good. When you don’t get enough vitamin B6 in your diet, dopamine levels fall, and you can experience negative feelings.

In addition, people who don’t get enough vitamin B6, may produce to little serotonin,which make them feel even worse.

It’s not yet clear how much vitamin B6 you might need to help stress levels down,
says Dr. Tecce. It seems likely, however, that the daily value (DV) of 2 milligrams is
probably enough. It’s very easy to get this much vitamin B6 in your diet.

One banana, for example, has 0.7 milligram, or 35% of the DV, a half-cup of chickpeas
has 0.6 milligram, or 30% of the DV and a baked potato has 0.4 milligram, or 20%
of thee DV. The USANA Essentials contains 8 milligram of vitamin 6.

The Caffeine Crash
In a study of almost 30 people, researchers at the University of Minnesota in Morris
found that more of them drank more coffee or caffeine-containing soft drinks during
high-pressure times.

Caffeine produces a quick zing that can momentarily make you feel more relaxed
and confident. Fairly quickly, however, it stimulates the production of cortisol,
a stress hormone that raises blood pressure and heart rate. This can make you feel
more stressed than yo did before, says William Lovallo, PhD, professor of psychiatry
and behavioral sciences at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.

It doesn’t take potfuls of coffee to rev up your stress levels, Dr. Lovallo adds.
In a study of 48 men, Dr. Lovallo and his colleagues found that those drinking just
2 to 3 cups had a significant increase in blood pressure.

This doesn’t mean that you have to give up your favorite drinks, Dr. Lovallo adds.
But when the pressure’s on, switching to drinks without caffeine will help keep you
calmer and more in control .

And while you’re filling your cup, put the lid back on the sugar. Within minutes
after eating sweets, blood sugar levels start to fall. “When your blood sugar is going
up and down, you are more susceptible to moodiness and irritability,” says
Peter Miller, PhD, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at theMedical University of South Carolina in Charleston.

Maintaining your health is much easier than trying to regain it.
When you are in good health, your goal should be  to support
your good health and to protect yourself against degenerative
diseases, by combining a healthy diet and exercise with nutritional supplementation.

For those who are struggling with their health,they can empower
their body to fight and even reverse chronic diseases.

By providing the necessary nutrients at optimal levels, your LDL
cholesterol is more resistant to oxidation, your eyes have greater
antioxidant protection from sunlight, you provide optimal protection
for your lungs. You increase your immune system  and antioxidant
defense system.

You decrease the risk of developing heart disease, stroke, cancer,
arthritis, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson disease and more.

Bear in mind that our toxic environment and stressful lifestyle
make it necessary for our immune system and our antioxidant
defense system to work flat out.

If someone is suffering from lasting fatigue or a chronic
degenerative disease, he or she is under greater oxidative stress
than normal. In this case optimizers are used to support any
existing nutritional supplement program.

A very strong antioxidant is found in grape-seed extract, which
belongs to a group of antioxidants called bioflavanoids.
When used in synergy with other multiminerals and antioxidants,
they are fifty times more potent than vitamin E and twenty times
more potent than vitamin C.

One of the most important characteristics of grape seed extract
is, that it gets easily across the blood brain barrier.
In other words, it gets into the fluid around the brain, spinal cord
and nerves most readily.

It usually takes four to six weeks before you notice significant
improvement and start to feel normal again.

People who are already suffering from a degenerative disease,
like heart disease, osteoporosis, diabetes, Alzheimer’s etc. are
already in serious trouble.
In this condition, everyday production of free radicals can cause
severe oxidative damage to fats, proteins and the DNA of the cell.

These people need significantly more potent antioxidants if
they want to have any change of beating their disease and
regaining their health.

Next to grape-seed extract,other optimizers are used,like CoQ10,
which is important to create energy within the cell and support
our immune system,
glucosamine sulfate,which is used for cartilages in the joints,
lutein,niacin, magnesium and calcium.

For people suffering from heart disease, 100mg grape-seed
extract, CoQ10 and about 200 – 300 mg magnesium per day,
in addition to a basic vitamin E mixture.

Cardiomyopathy patients need 300-600 mg of CoQ10 with
some magnesium and 100 mg grape-seed extract.
They will see a recovery within 4 months.

For cancer patients it is hard to give a general formula, but
if there is no prove of cancer spreading, 200 mg each of
grape-seed extract and CoQ10 is recommended.
If the cancer is spreading, 300 mg of grape-seed extract and
500 – 600 mg CoQ10  is recommended.

In case of Macular Degeneration, 300 mg of grape-seed extract
and 6 -12 mg  lutein should be added to the basic regime.
Improving will happen within the first 4 months.

Multiple Sclerosis patients need at least 400 mg of grape-seed
extract, 200 – 300mg CoQ10 and even some additional 500 –
1000 mg Vitamin C. It can take up to 6 months before any
significant improvement can be experienced.

People suffering from osteoarthritis need 1,500 – 2,000 mg of
glucosamine sulfate and about 100 – 200 mg grape-seed extract.
They can also add 400 – 600 mg chondroitin sulfate or even
100 mg of MSM if they feel it helps them.

Rheumatoid Arthritis can also be conquered with the same
amount of glucosamine sulfate, 300 mg of CoQ10, 400 mg
grape-seed extract and 200 mg additional magnesium and
calcium. Adding 3 to 4 fish oil capsules or two teaspoons of
cold-pressed flax seed daily.

For Osteoporosis patients it is important to get the right levels
of vitamin D, calcium and magnesium with their meals.
They also need a serious weight-bearing exercise program
for the upper body.

If Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease is in an early stage,
400 mg of grape-seed extract can slow down the progression.

In case of Diabetes, 100 – 200 mg grape-seed exract can be
added to the basic program.

Chronic  Fatigue/ Fibromyalgia patients need 200 – 300 mg
grape-seed extract along with 100 – 200 mg of CoQ10.
Sometimes it is necessary to increase the dose of grape-
seed extract to 400 or even 500 mg daily in order to conquer
this disease.   When improvements are noticed, this amount
can be reduced to a lower maintenance level.

It is crucial to protect your health with high- quality  supplements,
which are complete and balanced,if you want to be assured of
getting any significant results.

Look at nutritional supplements as your health insurance.
Once you have lost it,it is very difficult to regain your health,
no matter how much money you are willing and be able to spend.

I would recommend the USANA  nutritionals for supplementation.
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Without  science and technology, our lifespan would not have been
increased as much as we experience it today.
However, they were not be able to secure for us our long-term health.
As Dr. Myron Wentz, founder of USANA Health Sciences likes to phrase it:
“We are living  too short and dying too long.”

Healthy living means:keeping a balanced, healthy diet, avoiding smoking,
excessive use of alcohol and toxic chemicals,taking regular exercise and
supplementing our diet with high quality nutritional supplements.

The nutrients have to be in a form that the cells of our body can
except them and the cells have to be in optimum condition to be able to
absorb the nutrients.These are the keys to successful nutrition and two
often overlooked facts.

Maintaining your health is much easier than trying to regain it.
When you are struggling with your health, you can empower your body
to fight and even reverse chronic diseases.

By providing the necessary nutrients at optimal levels, your LDL cholesterol
is more resistant to oxidation, your eyes have greater antioxidant protection
from sunlight and you provide optimal protection for your lungs.
You increase your immune system and antioxidant defense system.

You decrease the risk of developing heart disease, stroke, cancer, arthritis,
diabetes, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson disease and more.

People who are suffering from a chronic degenerative disease are under
greater oxidative stress than normal.In this case, optimizers are important
to use in order to support any existing nutritional program.

It’s been scientifically proven that there are substantial health benefits in
taking nutritional supplements. The benefits of nutritional supplements
are scientifically verified over the past two years.
Hundreds of scientific studies have proved that nutritional supplements
can significantly reduce the risk of degenerative diseases.

The American Medical Association (AMA) now encourages all adults
to supplement daily with a multiple vitamin. Based on a landmark review
of 38 years of scientific evidence by Harvard researchers, Dr Robert Fletcher
and Dr Kathleen Fairfield, the conservative Journal of the American Medical
Association (JAMA) has rewritten its policy guidelines regarding the use of
vitamin supplements. In a striking departure from its previous anti-vitamin
rhetoric, JAMA (June19,2002) now recommends that, given our nutrient-poor
modern diet, supplementation each day with a multiple vitamin is a prudent
preventive measure against chronic disease.

The researchers point out that more than 80% of the American population
does not consume anywhere near the five to eight servings of fruits and
vegetables required each day for optimal health.

Dr Robert Fletcher, co-author of the groundbreaking JAMA studies, states:
All of us grew up believing that if we ate a reasonable diet, that would take
care of our vitamin needs. But the new evidence, much of it in the last couple
of years, is that vitamins also prevent the usual diseases we deal with every
day – heart disease, cancer, osteoporosis, and birth defects.

Most people simply accept the onset of arthritis, heart disease and
diabetes as inevitable results of the aging process — the truth is, these
conditions are largely preventable.

Health is a matter of CHOICE.
If we chose to make good nutrition – including supplementation –
and an active lifestyle a daily habit, we could add 5 to 15 healthy
years to our lives.
Apart from the future benefits, eating well and exercising regularly
also enable us to enjoy life so much more right now!

I would recommend the USANA  nutritionals for supplementation.
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