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What's a Health Food Vitamin ?
Imagine a health food -- not a drug --
powerful enough to help lower your cholesterol, reduce your
risk of heart disease and cancer, and, for an added
bonus, improve your mood, all this without side
effects.
Medical professionals have long wondered why
people in certain countries experience remarkably low levels of
cancer, diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure and weight
problems while enjoying significantly longer more vibrant
lives.
Science has now discovered that the answer lies
in certain health food vitamins that are a major part of their
daily diets.
There's no government definition, but a health
food vitamin is a natural food source highly concentrated with
a complex supply of quality nutrients.
Vitamins are essential to human life. They're
organic compounds necessary in small amounts to promote growth
and maintenance of life. They don't provide energy, nor do they
construct or build any part of the body. They transform food
into energy for the body.
Minerals are important to the overall
functioning of the mind and body. They have two general
body functions - building and regulating. Without
minerals, vitamins can't function. Minerals help
build the skeleton and all soft tissues, regulate
heartbeat, blood clotting, internal pressure of body
fluids, nerve response and oxygen transport from the lungs
to the tissues.
The premise of a health food vitamin is that
certain foods are nutritional powerhouses. Blueberries bubble
with cancer-fighting, heart-healthy antioxidants, avocados ooze
with the same good fats that olive oil has, and spinach has it
all.
The claims about these foods by food marketing
professionals and in popular books like "SuperFoods Rx" create
the impression that health food vitamins are the fountain of
youth and will save you from cancer, heart disease, diabetes
and every other scourge of good health.
Maybe, or maybe not.
But that doesn't mean health food vitamins
should be dismissed.
The fact is, there's every reason to eat
them.
It's called good nutrition, a concept
dietitians have been trying to sell for years. Now, suddenly,
it's trendy.
Food companies find the health food vitamin
concept irresistible for advertising. But Dole, the fruit and
vegetable giant, was not wrong when it called
brussels sprouts a health food
vitamin in a holiday publicity pitch to food
writers. Fact is, brussel sprouts do contain
lots of vitamin C and some other useful phytonutrients, and
they're very good for you.
A lot of this is common sense, or at least not
exactly news. But here's the thing: Even though people know
what's good for them, they don't always know how to work these
foods into three meals a day.
For example, the health food vitamin pumpkin,
shows up around the holidays, usually as pie, but then
disappears for the rest of the year -- depriving you of its
fiber, potassium and most of all its carotenoids, the
antioxidants prevalent in orange and dark-green foods.
Most major degenerative diseases are largely
caused by poor diet and unhealthy foods. Additionally, a hectic
lifestyle makes it easy to skip a meal or grab
less-than-nutritious food on the run.
But a busy day doesn’t have to stand in the way
of great health. A regular food
supplement is great insurance for days when you do miss a
meal or two.
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