For many of us today the term “malnutrition” brings to mind pictures of starving people in Africa: crying children with distended bellies or gaunt sickly people laying in cots. But Dr. Weston Price (mentioned on the Home page) concluded back in the mid 1940s that Americans were beginning to suffer from “Physical Degeneration” due to…
Health and Nutritional Supplements–Beware Chemical Vitamins Piece
Finally, we’ve arrived at the point where we know without a doubt that health and nutritional supplements go hand in hand. The final nail in the coffin to the naysayers who scoff at the idea of hardly anyone in America needing supplements is the decline in nutrient content in vegetables and fruits over the last…
Health and Nutritional Supplements–The Beware The Food Supply Piece
Well, do health and nutritional supplements go hand in hand? At this point, we’ve definitely proved the need for nutritional supplements because we now realize that we have a full-blown health crisis in America. The majority of our diets are, for the most part, really poor and approximately half of our population is on medications….
Health and Nutritional Supplements–The Medication Overload Piece
We’re still on the trail of the answers to the question, do health and nutritional supplements go hand in hand? In our last blog, we began our investigation by taking a look at the argument put out by so-called “experts” who scoff at the idea of anyone in America really needing supplements.They say that there…
Health and Nutritional Supplements–The SAD Piece
Do health and nutritional supplements really go hand in hand? Well, yes– and no. This is why it’s so confusing to so many people. How do we figure it out? Well, the first question that needs to be addressed here is: Are we getting enough nutrients on a regular basis? How do we know? Many…
Vitamin B Side Effects
Vitamin B is really the “Feel-Good Vitamin.” It helps with a number of health problems: fatigue depression muscle soreness muscle tone healthy skin insomnia abnormal heart rhythms insomnia There are 8 B vitamins in the Vitamin B Complex. They all have to be taken together because their functions are so interrelated that large doses of…
Best Multivitamins
How do we decide which are the best multivitamins for us to take? For many people this decision is based on how they’re advertised, with benefits like: high potency dissolves quickly in water scientifically advanced specially-formulated, whether for men or women or older people or kids Then we have to sort through all the articles…
Genetically Modified Salmon
The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) is responsible for the safety of our food supply. Currently it is in the midst of public hearings to determine if it will approve genetically modified (GM) salmon. It’s a salmon that grows into a full-sized fish in half the time. If approved, it would be the first genetically…
Facts About Nutrition
With our society in a full-blown health crisis, more and more we are searching for nutritional answers in order to avoid health problems and protect our health. What are some of the facts about nutrition we need to know? For starters, we need to know what nutrition is. Taber’s Dictionary defines it as: “The sum…
Vitamin C Side Effects –The Ones They Hide With Doublespeak
A 2009 study of nearly 15,000 physicians age 50 or older supposedly tracked the health benefits of vitamin C for eight years. They were randomly given 500 milligrams of vitamin C or a placebo. The outcome? Taking large quantities of vitamin C proved fruitless Large quantities didn’t make any difference in the duration or severity…
