Are Your Vitamins Safe?

When you buy vitamins do you know what the ingredients mean and what benefit or potential harm they will cause?

I didn’t have a clue for many years. I fell for the marketing hype. I didn’t know how to read and understand the labels. Well that changed last year after the pet food recalls. I started helping pet lovers understand what is really in pet food. Then the light bulb went off and I realized I was feeding my human family synthetic ingredients, in our vitamin supplements. I went on a learning journey and was so shocked that our health is not always the most important thing in the vitamin industry. It’s profit driven for many.

How do you feel when taking a vitamin supplement?

Do you sleep restfully and wake refreshed?
Do you have energy to chase after the kids or make love with your partner after a day at work?
Do you have regular bowel movements?
Do you feel happy and motivated every day?
Are you rarely sick with colds or stomach problems?

If you answered no to any of these you might be taking synthetic vitamins. Answer yes to the following questions and it could be the vitamin.

Do you toss and turn when you should be sleeping?
Are you drained of energy most days?
Do you have dark yellow, strong smelling urine?
Are you constipated or have bouts of diarrhea?
Do you suffer memory loss, fatigue, depression or insomnia?

Not all vitamin supplements are created equally, even a whole food multi can have synthetic ingredients, additives and fillers including fiber*.

Here are 3 reports from Reuters Health, and New England Journal of Medicine about synthetic ingredients in vitamins.

1. Male smokers taking vitamins with synthetic Vitamin E and Beta Carotene have increase rates of lung cancer, heart attacks and increased death.

2. Birth defects increased for women on synthetic vitamin A, 400% increase before a study was halted.

3. Men get thickened arteries on synthetic Vitamin C. This is after only 18 months of taking a synthetic Vitamin C.

* Fiber is good if it’s not in your vitamin. Fiber is a cheap filler when used in a supplement. It takes space that should be saved for the expensive nutrients you are paying for in the supplement. Take fiber alone, if you need it.

Liquid Multivitamins - You Grow Old While I Stay Young And Healthy

We battle to eat healthy and maintain a balanced diet, but here’s the deal; it’s not enough. Vitamins and minerals are the foundation that makes up the fabric of our bodies. From a nutritional standpoint, they play a decisive role by providing accelerators for numerous bodily reactions. Multivitamins exert strong preventive measures against illness and the biological process of aging, on top of their vital role in intelligent living.

We all realize that it’s valuable to take daily vitamins and minerals to sustain a vibrant and healthy body. But who enjoys taking a handful of pills and trying to get them all down with one swallow everyday of your life just to attain health?

A new study indicated that merely 10-20% of vitamins in the pill format are absorbed, while 98% of vitamins in the liquid form are absorbed by your body. Pills are to a greater extent not easy to swallow and put more stress on your digestive system. Liquid vitamins are a superior strategy to increase the absorption into your blood stream and create unmatched effectiveness. Advocates suggest them to be a remarkable discovery of nutrition.

Liquid vitamins pack three to five times more punch than in pill form. The liquid delivery system allows the concentration levels to dominate would you would normally find in pill format. Liquids are much more relaxing on your system because it doesn’t have to work extra innings to break down the solids that are the foundation of most pill type vitamins.

Liquid vitamins are an outstanding value because your body is able to utilize them within minutes after you ingest them. They detour the digestive track, so there is very little digestive processing. When you take pill vitamins your body may receive a fraction of the benefits when going through the digestive breakdown process which can take several hours.

Five simple facts which distinguish liquid vitamins as a superior alternative:

• potent concentration levels
• easily absorbed and assimilated by the body
• comfortable to take
• affordable
• reinforces the immune system

The durability of our immune system is what creates the distinction between who stays healthy and who grows old and tired. The hectic universe that we dwell in and the craving to eat tasty unhealthy foods is ever increasing. With the enriched and luscious tasting liquid vitamins obtainable now, isn’t it time to try out a liquid multivitamin and stay young and healthy just like me?

Creatine, Muscle Building and Fat Loss - The Truth

For muscle building and enhancing athletic performance, creatine is probably the most effective, research-proven supplement that we’ll ever saw until now. Once inside the muscle, creatine increases muscle cell volume and stimulates contractile protein production to provide better and faster results. Popular misconception among many weight lifters and other athletes is that creatine prevents fat loss if used regularly. You can read opinions that for building muscle, creatine is a great supplement but if you want to get lean, creatine supplementation is something you don’t want around you.

There is no scientific evidence to support this., I will provide you with the scientific evidence that is relevant to creatine and fat loss so that you can make an informed decision based on facts.

Creatine contains zero calories, no fat and 0 carbohydrates. How can supplementation with creatine provide additional calories to the diet and impede fat loss? The actual reaility is that in an indirect way, creatine supplementation probably speeds fat loss! Over 67 well-controlled studies have shown that longer term creatine supplementation (8-12 weeks) increases lean muscle mass with little or no change in fat mass. And the increase in lean mass will provide an increase in a person’s metabolic rate that, in turn, burns more body fat.

It is just due to influence of poor quality of bodybuilding magazines that over the time people start to think (and act) in compeatly wrong ways. It appears that the topic of creatine and fat loss has become a part of the bodybuilding folk-law for ignoramuses. I’ll give short comments just to show you how they manipulate with informations and make people think (buy) what they want. The findings from a one creatine study ( Huso, M.E., et al. Creatine supplementation influences substrate utilization at rest. J Appl Physiol. 2002). have been interpreted by many in the bodybuilding media to suggest that creatine supplementation somehow prevents fat loss.

Facts behind

The subjects in this study were not bodybuilders, they were active but physically untrained, college males. Untrained college men would not be nearly as disciplined or motivated as bodybuilders with regard to their eating, sleeping patterns or training intensity. They would not be accustomed to the rigorous, weekly training or having to report dietary details. Based on my experience, unless the study participant is a highly motivated bodybuilder; they do not fully comprehend the importance of a consistent approach to eating, sleeping and training. Therefore the data obtained during a bodybuilding study that does not utilize bodybuilders, must be questionable.

This study used a “crossover design”; the assessment period between creatine use and non-creatine use was very close.

In this study, the authors suggest that creatine may prevent fat loss and this is a puzzling notion. Creatine contains no calories and I fail to see how 2-grams a day of a non-caloric compound could interfere with the fat loss process. I mean let’s use our common sense here.

The aspects I have raised are not meant to detract from the research study I have just discussed. These points merely stress the importance of the way in which the results are interpreted. Also, remember that not all bodybuilding journalists are interested in the little details that may influence the results.

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