Best Vitamin Blog November Archive

To Take or To Trash: Daily Supplements 101

11/29/08 21:41

Being sick or having a disease is the last thing everyone needs these striving times of economic crisis, because it will literally "cost" you. This is why taking care of your welfare and health is not to be taken lightly. How can one maintain a good lifestyle and be healthy at the same time? Some best and tested examples are proper exercise, proper diet and at times taking supplements. But in the many food and health supplements out there, which one to take and which one not to? Check them out here:

Link: Health Information from KELO-TV

Liquid Pet Vitamins

Vitamins for pets? To those people who do not own a pet at home, this may seem to be an overkill, but pet owners know what their pets need, and vitamins are among them.

There are a few websites out there specifically targetting pet vitamins, more especially liquid pet vitamins, which are easier to give. Good thing there's LiquidPetVitamins.com to give you valuable information.

Link: LiquidPetVitamins.com Launches New Blog; Provides Important Information For Pet Owners

Vitamin B12 Defeciency

Vitamin B12(cobalamin) deficiency can cause sever and irreversible damage to the nervous system which includes subacute combined degeneration of spinal cord. Most of the time it shows to symptoms but it can also present anemia (megaloblastic anemia) characterized by enlarged corpuscles.

This body disorder can be cause by inadequate food intake of vitamin B12 rich food naturally present in animals product like egg, meat, milk and some strain of yeast. Some are due to impaired absorption, presence of parasites, and some drug interfere with vit. b12 absorption.

Link: Don't take B12 Def lightly... - BrainTalk Communities

Response to Attacks Against Dietary Supplements

Multivitamins have recently been the object of attacks by the media, saying that these supplements are mere placebos that do not contribute any real relief to the patients.

Producers of these dietary products are, of course, quick to respond and counterclaim that their products really work. Let's hear what one of them has to say here in this article in Lef.Org

Link: Rebuttal To Recent Attacks Against Dietary Supplements - Life Extension

Vitamins for Ear Impairment Prevention

Noise - induced hearing loss strikes about 10,000 million people in the United States alone. With this fact, physicians and researchers at the University of Michigan Kresge Hearing Research Institute are studying on how to prevent this condition with a group of vitamins and mineral magnesium.

Combination of vitamins A, C, E, and Magnesium is expected to prevent the noise induced hearing impairment. More details on the link below.

Link: Can Vitamins and Minerals Prevent Hearing Loss? - MarketWatch

Natural Vitamin C Supplement?

Should you take an isolated vitamin supplement? Advertisements bombarding us say so because they say they can fight off diseases when, in reality, no credible studies have shown this.

Having such vitamin C supplements is not an assurance that your immune system will improve. So what should you do? Go back to basics and eat your fruits and vegetables, my friends. That is still the best way to go.

Link: American Chronicle | If You Think Vitamins Are Natural…Try Growing A Vitamin C Plant

Tips for Stress Management on Holiday Season

Dr. Carrie Jone, a Naturophatic Physician on women's health and hormones, describes what stress really is. She says that the stress response is not triggered by events that happens in your life but how you to respond to those events.

She explained that stress can be emotional, psychological, biochemical, hormonal, physical, or environmental and all us experience all of these everyday but usually we are pushed further around the holidays.

In her article (link below), she describes some ways to de-stress in the coming holiday season.

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