Choosing Vitamins

How to take the guesswork out of choosing vitamins

Here's What You Need In a Vitamin Supplement
Since the 1930's, we've known there was little mineral content in American soils because of over-farming. That hasn't changed. So where can we find plants that are rich in minerals?
From the sea! Sea vegetables harvested from cold, pollution-free waters are nourished by the ocean's own minerals and filtered sunlight.

"Many sea vegetables contain most, if not all, of seawater's 77 minerals and rare earth elements."
reports Swaha Devi, author of The Healing Grocery: When Food is Your Best Medicine.
Minerals help your pH balance while supplying the basic ingredients for the rejuvenation of the body. They build and maintain bones, aid in the health of the blood and heart, and maintain the body's fluid balance. Minerals are also responsible for supporting enzyme reactions and aiding in energy metabolism.

In all situations of disease, ill health, injury or aging, there is tissue damage at the cellular level. This tissue damage can occur quickly as with injuries or slowly over time as in degenerative disease. Free radicals are the most common cause of this tissue damage and free radicals have been linked to every known disease by more than 6000 scientific studies.
Antioxidants protect against free radical damage.

Vitamins noted for their antioxidant power, such as A, C, D, E and the B vitamins should be added to complete the sea vegetable preparation, if they're lacking. "Very few individuals, if any, reach their potential maximum life span," claims Denham Harman M.D., Ph.D.
"They die instead prematurely of a wide variety of diseases - the vast majority being free radical diseases." We recommend you protect yourself with a complete nutritional supplement containing antioxidants.

The USDA Dietary guideline encourages us to increase our intake of whole food greens, because they may help reduce the risk of heart disease and certain cancers. Diets rich in fruits and vegetables may reduce the risk of some types of cancer and other chronic diseases, according to a report in USA Today. Look for a complete supplement which includes whole food greens, with ingredients like whole wheat, barley, oats and soybeans.

Scientists have developed a way to process fruits and vegetables that captures the nutritional value - phytonutrients - while leaving behind the skin, seeds and pulp. A liquid supplement which includes such fruit and vegetable phytonutrient concentrates is more complete. "Drink an ounce or so and get the nutritional equivalent of eating a grocery cart full of fresh fruits and vegetables," advise nutrition experts Joe and Teresa Graedon.
A recent report from the Institute of Medicine tells us that various health benefits have been ascribed to fiber in the diet, including increased laxation and lower blood glucose and cholesterol concentrations.

Certain kinds of fiber have been shown to bind with cholesterol and prevent it from being absorbed by the body, resulting in decreased risk of heart disease. Although there is some evidence to suggest that fiber also may help to prevent colon cancer and promote weight control.

The report contains the first recommended intakes for fiber from the Food and Nutrition Board. According to the report, men and women 50 years and younger should have 38 and 25 grams respectively of total fiber each day. The recommended intakes for men and women over 50 years of age are 30 and 21 grams per day, respectively, due to decreased calorie consumption among this age group.

Look for fiber in your supplement to improve intestinal regularity, moderate blood glucose levels, and reduce the risk of heart disease. At present, fiber intake among Americans is estimated at about 12 grams per day.


















The Institute of Medicine, in their September 2002 report, also states that people must get two types of polyunsaturated fatty acids, known as alpha-linolenic acid (an omega-3 fatty acid) and linoleic acid (an omega-6 fatty acid), from the foods they eat, since the body cannot make them. A lack of either one will result in symptoms of deficiency, including scaly skin, dermatitis, and reduced growth.

Additionally, studies have shown that populations with diets naturally high in alpha-linolenic acid and longer chain omega-3 fatty acids, common in countries where large quantities of fatty fish are consumed, have a decreased risk of cardiovascular disease. Similarly, individuals whose diets are naturally high in linoleic acid and longer chain omega-6 fatty acids, commonly obtained from vegetable oils, have higher blood levels of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, also protective of cardiovascular disease.

Make sure your complete liquid supplement has protein. The building blocks of high-quality, digestible protein, in the form of essential amino acids, is used in hundreds of body processes, from building lean muscle mass to maintaining healthy skin, hair and nails.

Enzymes, the natural components in raw food which help us break down what we eat, are often destroyed by cooking. Although our bodies can produce a limited supply of enzymes, this ability becomes less efficient as we age. Choose a complete liquid supplement that contains plant enzymes.

It is enzyme activity that determines whether we will digest and absorb the nutrients from the foods and supplements we take. Lack of enzymes in the modern diet is one of the major causes of the high rate of degenerative diseases found today. Enzymes carry out almost every chemical reaction in your body. In fact, vitamins, minerals and hormones cannot do their jobs without the aid of enzymes.

In ancient times, the Greeks and Egyptians used pomegranates to heal many ailments. This fruit contains ellagic acid which acts as a scavenger to bind cancer-causing chemicals, making them inactive. Ellagic acid, found also in red raspberries and other sources, inhibits the ability of chemicals to cause mutations. It prevents binding of carcinogens to DNA, thus reducing the incidence of cancer. A supplement which contains ellagic acid offers us extra protection.

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