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Showing posts with label nutrition review. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nutrition review. Show all posts

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Vitamin D- The Sunshine Vitamin



The body produces vitamin D as a response to sun light. Many foods also contain vitamin D, such as fish, egg yolk, fish liver oil and in dairy and grain products that have been fortified.

The body needs vitamin D in order to maintain strong bones by allowing the body to use calcium food in food. Vitamin D deficiency can lead to rickets, which is a disease that affects bone tissue leading to soft bones.

Vitamin D can help prevent and treat conditions, such as type 1 & 2 diabetes, multiple sclerosis, hypertension and glucose intolerance.

Causes of Vitamin D deficiency:

  • not consuming daily recommended levels of Vitamin D
  • you have dark skin
  • not getting enough sun light exposure
  • the digestive can't adequately absorb vitamin D
  • the kidneys can't convert vitamin D
  • obesity
A simple blood test can be done to determine the level of vitamin D deficiency. Taking the daily recommended dosage of vitamin D is a simple treatment for vitamin D deficiency.

The recommended dosages are:
  • Adult and Children up to age 50- 5 mcg or 200 IU
  • Age 51-70- 10 mcg or 400 IU
  • Over 70- 15 mcg or 600 IU
Spend some time in the sun and soak up all the free vitamin D your body can handle. Why let it go to waste? Remember that sun screen blocks the absorption of sun light that is needed to be converted.

Use moderation when out in the sun. Too much can be harmful to the skin.

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Charles

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Book Review - NutriSearch Comparative Guide to Nutritional Supplements, 4th Edition


Vitamins, if properly understood and applied, will help us to reduce human suffering to an extent that the most fantastic human mind would fail to imagine.

—Albert Szent-Györgyi, Nobel Laureate in Physiology and Medicine (1893-1986)

The fourth edition of the NutriSearch Comparative Guide to Nutritional Supplements (Professional Edition) is now available.

This new edition is twice the size and rates three times (over 1,500) the number of nutritional supplements as the third edition. There are over 1,500 US and Canadian supplements scientifically rated and compared; compared using 18 critical Health Support Criteria required to evaluate supplements; illustrated with 300 full-color graphs so you can easily compare top-rated products.

The NutriSearch Comparative Guide to Nutritional Supplements (Professional Edition) is your road map to understanding the remarkable protective powers of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants.

Discover recent scientific evidence that shows supplements can optimize health and retard the aging process. Determine which supplement is best for you and your family, using a scientifically-based approach.

Using 18 criteria, a Final Product Rating, based on a five-star scale, is determined. A five-star rating highlights those products whose characteristics for optimal nutrition are clearly superior to the majority of products on the market and that approach or meet the pooled recommendations of the Blended Standard.

Conversely, a one-star rating or less represents products possessing few, if any, of the characteristics for optimal nutrition reflected in the Blended Standard. The five-star scale, divisible in half-star increments, provides an intuitive means by which the consumer can compare products, based on product content.

Show Me the Science. For each Health Support Profile criterion, we provide a review of the scientific justification for those nutrients included in the criterion.

This review is a more comprehensive overview than is available in the printed 4th edition of the Comparative Guide to Nutritional Supplements; it is provided for those wishing to delve deeper into the available scientific evidence supporting the value of supplementation with a particular nutrient or nutrient group.

The 18 criteria the Comparative Guide uses are:

1. Completeness. Over the years, scientific research has documented numerous micro-nutrients that are required for optimal health. We now know that the body requires approximately 17 vitamins and vitamin-like substances, a diverse group of plant-based antioxidants, at least 14 trace elements and minerals, and several essential fats necessary for proper cellular function. The body cannot manufacture many of these substances; they must be obtained through the diet.
2. Potency.
3. Mineral Forms. Minerals are essential components of our cells and serve as co-factors in the thousands of enzyme-controlled reactions that power the machinery of the cell.
4. Bio-activity of Vitamin E.
5. Gamma Tocopherol. Does the product contain gamma-tocopherol (or a mixture of gamma, beta, and delta-tocopherols) at a potency of up to one-half the potency of alpha-tocopherol in the same product?
6. Antioxidant Support
7. Bone Health
8. Heart Health
9. Liver Health (detoxification)
10. Metabolic Health (glucose control)
11. Ocular Health
12. Methylation Support
13. Lipotropic Factors
14. Inflammation Control. Chronic inflammation, frequently induced by uncontrolled oxidative stress, is a principal mechanism by which degenerative disease takes root.
15. Glycation Control
16. Bioflavonoid Profile
17. Phenolic Compounds Profile
18. Potential Toxicities

An exceptional complete guide comparing various Nutritional Supplements, this book also provides an education into battling degenerative disease and how all the nutrients work to provide the body with optimal health. This book is a must have.

For a complete review of the 18 criteria, please visit the Comparative Guide’s web page at: http://www.nutrisearch.ca/showmethescience/ProductRatingCriteria.html