food and nutrition

Nutritional Supplements


  1. Nutritional Supplements and False Claims, Perfect Together!
    Have you ever thought about using supplements that claim to make you lose weight and help you perform better physically? This article discusses whether these products really deliver on their claims or whether most are just helping you to waste your money.

  2. Nutritional Supplements: Are They Really Essential For Good Health
    Why should I take nutritional supplements? Can't I just eat healthy, exercise, drink plenty of water, etc.? A fair question. After all, quality nutritional supplements are not cheap. Let's look at the arguments for taking nutritional supplements in addition to a healthy lifestyle. Argument #1: Our foods no longer contain the nutrition they should Due to modern processing and farming methods, foods that should be high in certain nutrients no longer are. For example, the ...

  3. Selecting Nutritional Supplements
    Nutritional supplements can help compliment a diet that could be missing some necessary nutrients. But nutritional supplements are only as good as the ones you select, and how you combine your nutritional supplements with healthy food so that none of the nutrients are cancelled out. An estimated 50 percent of American adults use nutritional supplements regularly. But some doctors suggest that half of these adults aren't using these nutritional supplements correctly. So...

  4. The Benefits And Perils Of Vitamin A
    Why You Need Vitamin A Vitamin A plays an important role in vision, reproduction, and bone development. It encourages the growth of health surface linings in the eyes, lungs, intestines, and uninary track. Vitamin A is a fat soluble vitamin. This means that excess amounts are stored in the liver or in fat cells. Because of this you must be careful not to take too much Vitamin A, as it can become toxic. The recommended daily allowance (RDA) of vitamin A is 5,000 Inte...

  5. Here's The Secret to Improving the Function of Every Cell in Your Body
    Everyone wants to live a long healthy life, but few of us know how to go about doing so. Most people think that as they age, getting some type of health problem or disease is inevitable. This is simply not true! All of the major causes of death--cancer, heart disease, stroke, lung disease and injury--can be prevented...

  6. Buying Nutritional Supplements Online
    If you are looking to purchase nutritional supplements, look no further than the World Wide Web. There are millions of businesses based both in the "real" and virtual worlds that hock any type of natural extract or supplement imaginable. These nutritional supplements can be anything from naturally building muscle and tone to ensuring your body has the proper nutrients at all times. Online sellers of nutritional supplements are just as reliable as the traditional brick and mor...

  7. Healthy Diet For Your Child
    It is the belief of most parents that children are eating a relatively healthy diet, but if not, they throw up their hands and give up. Children are then plied with multivitamins.

  8. Vitamins And Nutritional Supplements: Going Natural Or Staying Synthetic
    In recent years a growing number of men and women have taken to using natural vitamins and nutritional supplements as opposed to the more traditional, synthetic versions of these products. There are a number of differences between natural and synthetic vitamins and nutritional supplements that should be considered when you are trying determine what type of product will best meet your own particular needs and dieting goals. Many experts have concluded that natural vitamins ...

  9. Why You Should Take Nutritional Supplements
    Few things have been as controversial as nutritional supplements have been recently. Depending on who you listen to, they are either the answer to any problem you have or they are the devil incarnate. The truth about nutritional supplements, though, is really somewhere in between. Nutritional supplements are more widely used now than in other time in history. This is because many people have turned to nutritional supplements in order to fill the gaps in what they know to b...

  10. Incorporating Vitamins And Nutritional Supplements Into A Healthy Weight Maintenance Program
    If you have spent a great deal of time and exerted a great deal of effort on losing weight, it goes without saying that you do not want to put those ugly pounds back on. Done correctly, a weight loss program is an investment. As a consequence, you are going to want to embark on a program through which you will be able to maintain a health weight now and in to the future. Of course, there are two fundamental keys to maintaining a healthy weight. First of all, you need to ea...