Natural Health for you and your family: June 2009

Sunday, June 14, 2009

Natural Vitamins and Supplements: Do You Really Need Them?

Author: Shorty | Filed Under: Dietary supplement, Health, Supplement, Vitamin |

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Natural supplements? I can do without them, so do I really need to take them? This argument is at the forefront of many peoples’ minds as they start down the road to better health.

Here is why. Most people base their health on how they feel. So they don’t see the need for vitamins and supplements. Just because you feel fit and healthy, does not mean you do not need vitamins and or supplements.

The problem is when it suddenly strikes - an illness, a health problem, a sign of old age, weakness - we then begin to search for a dietary or herbal supplement to help us get out of the hole we have unfortunately dug for ourselves. When we could have been maintaining our health, by taking a few vitamins and supplements daily. Few would deny the logic of taking at least one multivitamin each day. It’s not like vitamin supplements are hard to get, or dangerous in any way.

Nutritional deficiency is almost impossible to avoid in these modern times. With our busy lifestyle, the ever-tempting convenience of fast food, it is now very difficult to enjoy excellent daily nutrition. For most, it is not practical to maintain a vitamin count on each meal to ensure we get our necessary vitamins.
That being said, health supplements should not replace proper nutrition. Nutritional supplements are just that, supplements. They work by complementing your diet to make sure you get the right nutrients that you need. In a perfect world we would get all our vitamins from the foods we eat. But unless you eat a significant amount of raw foods each day, you most likely not even coming close to the amount of nutrition you need to stay healthy.

So the answer to wither or not you need natural vitamins and supplements is, YES! So take a multivitamin supplement daily, it’s the least you can do to give back to your body. Do it for yourself, do it for your family but most of all just do it

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Natural Supplements and Vitamins for Better Health

Author: Shorty | Filed Under: Health, Health care, Mental health |

Natural health supplements and vitamins are on the rise as people are constantly being bombarded with high levels of stress and anxiety. Stress can manifest itself in many forms; physical, mental or environmental. Stress places an enormous strain on our physical and mental health. It can affect not only our ability to think straight, but also our digestive system, adrenal glands and heart. Natural health supplements can help!

Before we can find the right natural health supplements and vitamins to help our body combat stress, we must first examine stress. Stress is simply natural forces from the outside world which affect our individual being. How our bodies respond to stress has a big factor on how we handle stress and our health. This is where natural health supplements and vitamins can help. Symptoms of stress can include sleep disturbance, muscle tension, headache, gastrointestinal disturbances, and fatigue. Emotional and behavioral symptoms that may accompany stress include nervousness, anxiety, overeating, loss of energy or enthusiasm, and sudden mood changes. Of course none of these symptoms are solely caused by stress as they can all be related to other medical and or psychological issues. Research has also shown that people under stress have a greater tendency to engage in unhealthy behaviors, such as excessive use /or abuse of alcohol, drugs, cigarette smoking, as well as making poor nutritional choices.

Can Natural Health supplements and vitamins help you?

A better question would be, “Are you prone to stress?”

Stress comes in many forms and affects people of all ages. There is no cookie cutter method to determine or predict stress levels in individuals. Example being, you don’t have to have a job that is known as being stressful to experience workplace stress, just as a parent of one child may have a higher level of stress than a parent of many children. If it were that easy then the simple answer would be, just eliminate stress. Since it is not that easy, vitamins and supplements are needed to help our bodies combat the effects of stress. Natural health supplements and vitamins are a must for a healthy lifestyle. To be healthy you must eat healthy. As eating tends to take a back seat to our stressful lives supplements help to give our bodies the nutrition it needs to combat the toll that stress has on our body.

Research has however shown that whenever a stressful situation arises, a domino effect occurs. First, stress limits the blood supply going to the stomach, this in turn hampers the digestive system and a temporary shutdown of our immune system may follow. Being overwhelmed with stress for an extended period may cause us to experience fatigue and exhaustion. As it may not be possible to avoid stress factors in our lives there is help available. Natural herbal supplements, known for their relaxing properties can assist in combating the harmful effects of anxiety and stress. Natural Supplements that are known to assist the body in combating the damage stress causes your body are.

· Jujube Seeds

· Magnolia Bark

· Potassium

· Magnesium

· Valerian Root

· Melatonin

· Vitamin B complex contains Vitamins B1, B2, B3, B5, B6 and B12 are all essential vitamins for the nervous system

These herbs can be incorporated together to make a powerful formula.Natural health supplements and vitamins can help you as you strive to live a healthy life.

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