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Some Myths and Truths About Health Supplements |
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Written by ray
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Thursday, 24 August 2006 |
Visualize what you want the quality of your total health to be in 5, 10, 20+ years. If you already have a perfectly disease-free, healthy body, then read no further... if not, KEEP READING! You're at this page because: You find yourself currently in an unhealthy state as a result of heart disease, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, aging, stroke, weak immune system, etc. OR You find yourself generally healthy, but you'd like to enjoy better health right now as well as avoid chronic disease and costly medical care costs in the future. Nowadays, there are a lot of health supplements available in the market.
The popularity of health supplements is just one indication of how health-conscious people are becoming. There are, however, some things that need to be addressed regarding the use and the effectiveness of health supplements. Only the young and the pregnant need them -many adults refuse to take health supplements on the grounds that they think health supplements should only be taken by pregnant women or young people who consume much energy and minerals in their day-today living. This is not true. All people may be eating poor diets or taking in fewer nutrients than they ought to.
You get everything you need from health supplements -not true. There are lots of people, especially dieters, who reduce what they eat and replace food with health supplements. No matter how good a health supplement claims to be, you can never use it to replace food. The fact is that there are certain components of good old-fashioned food that health supplements just cannot replace. You only need to take health supplements for a while - some people believe that they only need to take health supplements for a short while, making it into a quick fix foe an illness. This is not true, however. Health supplements, in order to be effective, need to be taken daily. Your body needs a constant supply of nutrients in order to remain healthy. Remember that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. They can't al be absorbed at once, and so some may not be absorbed at all.
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