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Choosing the Right Supplements
Imagine this. What if:
 | Your body is a miraculous machine that can
heal and protect itself IF you give it the nutrition it needs
and protect it from negative effects. Your body does not get
sick because it is lacking a drug. You get sick because you are
not taking care of yourself and not feeding your body properly. |
| Degenerative diseases are a result of poor
nutrition and a quality supplement can fill in those gaps in
your diet and help your body |
| The drug companies are wrong, health &
prevention of disease is the answer not taking drugs to treat
symptoms |
| You don't have to look forward to getting a
degenerative disease |
Most of us live too short and die too long...
What supplements should you take?
That is the million dollar question. Like most of
us you probably have heard you should take this vitamin for that,
another vitamin for this, minerals for that and antioxidants for
even better health. It was refreshing to hear Dr. Strand talk about
a science based supplement company that took the approach of providing a quality
supplement that contained optimum amounts of all the necessary
nutrients. Note I said optimum and not 100% of the RDA (minimum
recommended) allowances. Everyone is different and have different
nutritional needs at different times. This approach says provide
your body with adequate levels and your body will take what it needs
at that particular time and discard any excess.
So to answer the question directly Dr. Strand
recommends we all need to
take most of the list of vitamins and nutrients and let your body
choose what it needs. The keys to
good health are:
| Healthy lifestyle - Choose healthy
actions and foods. Degenerative diseases are often referred to
as lifestyle diseases. Smoking, drinking and making poor choices
in eating
are lifestyle choices. |
| Eat quality and proper foods -
Moderation is the key but avoid processed foods, high glycemic
carbohydrates, sugar and artificial sweeteners, most cooking
oils, MSG, hydrogenated oils, etc. The Mediterranean diet is a
good one to choose or the Diabetic diet. Pay
attention to what you eat. If you eat in restaurants ask them
what they put into their foods. Lack of choice is a choice. |
| Be aware of the chemicals you are exposing
your body to. Cleaning supplies, cosmetics, skin products,
yard chemicals, etc. often contain things that are not good for
children and other living things. Try to avoid them. |
| Drink lots of water - Your body is
mostly composed of water not soda Pop or coffee. If
you drink "fruit juice" at least read the label. Most of the
"fruit juice" you purchase is not juice. It is flavored sugar
water. (Actually fruit juices are not the best way to get fruit
in your diet and probably shouldn't be on the list although it
is 10000% better than soda pop.) |
| Exercise - and do it regularly. Be
active. Choose the stairs and walk when you can. Go dancing. Make it
a habit. |
| Use a quality supplement. |
How to pick a company to acquire supplements
from?
We could discuss all kinds of criteria but this is
what we came up with:
| The company should use the pharmaceutical
grade supplements rather than GMP (good manufacturing
practice or food standards) to guarantee the contents and
what the label says is actually in the supplements. |
| Do they do their own research including
clinical studies on their products? Can you get access to this
information? |
| Avoid fad vitamins and supplements. Everyone
is looking for the magic bullet. There isn't a magic bullet.
Good nutrition and a multi-supplement are the keys. Magic juice
drinks are ok but I haven't seen one offer a wide variety of
vitamins and minerals. Most are good antioxidants at best.
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| The company offers a money back guarantee if
you are not happy with their products |
| Be nice if you could get a referral fee back
if you tell someone else about them. |
This is the company that provides
the products we use and recommend.
Footnotes:
| If you purchase a product from this link to
USANA Health Sciences, we get a referral fee. This helps us pay
for providing all this information on this web page. We are not
trying to practice medicine and this web page is not meant to do
so. We are sharing information in the hope it will help others
like it has helped us. You should make you own decision or
discuss it with your medical provider. |
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