Monthly Archive: March 2010

USANA Optimizer – Vitamin D

It started off as a seasonal product to help get you through the dark winter months. But now that the summer sunshine is just around the corner, how often are you actually going to...

Drinking It UP

Drinking It UP

Stay Hydrated The liquids you consume have a powerful impact on your metabolism.  Some will help it, while others will make it sluggish and may even lead to unhealthy weight gain. The best drink...

Choose Foods Rich in Calcium

Choose Foods Rich in Calcium

Eat Broccoli Sprouts  Broccoli sprouts boost enzymes in the body, while detoxifying potential carcinogens. Researchers estimate that broccoli sprouts provide 10 to 100 times the power of mature broccoli to neutralize carcinogens. Doctors found...

Keeping Up That Calcium

Keeping Up That Calcium

Consume Calcium  Calcium is an important part of a balanced diet. That’s because calcium is not only important for strengthening bones (which is especially important because it helps prevent musculoskeletal injuries during exercise), it...

Know Your Body Rhythms

Know Your Body Rhythms

Are you a morning person or an evening person? If you are one extreme or the other, you already know your body’s preferred rhythm, and I hope you’re in sync with it. If you...

A New Standard For Your Life

Ask yourself the following questions: Does your commitment to health – for yourself and for those you care about – extend to studying all product labels to identify those containing synthetic ingredients? Will you...

Zinc

Zinc

Zinc is an essential component of a wide range of enzymes. It is also necessary for maintaining and replicating genetic material (DNA and RNA), enabling the body to interpret its genetic information. This mineral...

Sulfur

Sulfur

Sulfur is present in every cell of the body, and is especially concentrated in the skin, nails, and hair. Most sulfur in the body is obtained as part of the protein intake, as it...

Iodine

Iodine

Sea vegetation, blue-green and green algae, and freshwater algae offer some of the best sources of iodine, which is also found in fruits, vegetables, and sprouted cereals. The amount of iodine in land vegetables...

Fluoride

Fluoride

Although a lack of fluoride can lead to childhood tooth decay, too much either in the diet or from other sources, such as swallowed toothpaste, tea, and fluoridated tap water, can cause fluorosis with...

Copper

Copper

A component of several enzymes, such as superoxide dismutase, which helps protect against free radical damage, copper is vital in forming connective tissue, which supports and separates organs and is found in tendons, bone,...

Chromium

Chromium

An adequate supply of chromium is particularly important in diabetic’s diet as a vital link in the chain that makes glucose available to the body. Chromium increases the effectiveness of insulin by stimulating glucose...

Aluminum

Aluminum

Although most minerals pose little threat to health, aluminum may be an important exception. Trace amounts of the mineral are found in all living organisms. However, scientists are still not sure about its biological...

Trace Minerals You Need

Trace Minerals You Need

Similar to the better-known macro-minerals, these micro- or trace minerals are stored primarily in your bone or muscle tissue. Even though we need these trace elements in much smaller doses, they still play crucial...

Phosphorus

Phosphorus

Phosphorus compounds (phosphates) are major constituents in the tissues of all plant and animal cells. As much as 80 percent of the body’s phosphorus is found in our bones and teeth. The process of...

Minerals – Calcium

Minerals – Calcium

Calcium is responsible for the construction, formation, and maintenance of bone and teeth. This function helps reduce the occurrence of osteoporosis. It is also a vital component in blood clotting systems and wound healing,...

Therapeutic Uses of Vitamins

From the discovery of vitamins in 1911 through the 1950s, nearly all doctors based their diagnoses of vitamin deficiencies on readily observable symptoms, such as the hemorrhaging caused by scurvy or the paralysis caused...

The Discovery of Vitamins

The discoveries of the effective vitamins have upon human health developed further around 1905 when an English doctor, William Fletcher, experimented on asylum inmates in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Beriberi was a nutritional deficiency disease...

Vitamins and Minerals Supplementation

Science studies have highlighted a range of health benefits from vitamin and mineral supplementation. Low levels of vitamin B5 have been linked to symptoms of arthritis, and vitamin B3 (niacin) has been shown to...

Vitamin E

In 1922, University of California researchers Hebert Evans and Katherine Bishop discovered vitamin E in green leafy vegetables. Experiments in that year showed that rates reared exclusively on while milk grew normally but were...

Vitamin A

Vitamin A

Beta-carotene is a vitamin A precursor, which the body uses to create complete vitamin A. Carrots, sunflower sprouts, red peppers, mangos, cantaloupes, cabbage, broccoli sprouts, as well as green leafy vegetables such as spinach...

Vitamin C’s Crucial Health Role

Once again, you may not want to believe it, but here is the ugly truth about vitamin C, one of the most popular vitamin supplements sold in the world today: Rather than bolstering your...

Vitamin B12: Cobalamin

Vitamin B12 is a soil-based microorganism and the best-known and most complex of all the known B vitamin family. It is unique in that it contains a metal ion, cobalt. For this reason, cobalamin...