Vitamins: Micronutrients or Miracle Drugs? (Part 2)

Vitamin D is the sunshine vitamin. Our body manufactures it when our skin is in contact with the sun’s rays.  It is the only vitamin to be produced by our body. Our system can manufacture large quantities of vitamin D and store them in the liver until needed.

Vitamin D is Essential For:

The absorption of calcium through the intestines and into the blood;
Settling calcium and phosphorus in the bones. Read more

Vitamins: Micronutrients or Miracle Drugs? (Part 1)

Vitamins are organic substances derived from living material-plants and animals. They are required in the diet in such tiny amounts-milligram or microgram quantities-that all the needed vitamins together add up to about an eighth of a teaspoon a day.

If you are lacking one or another vitamin in your diet, or if you consume it in insufficient quantity, characteristic deficiency symptoms develop. But because vitamins have such diverse roles, the deficiency symptoms of a particular vitamin may touch many different body functions, and different vitamins may produce similar deficiency symptoms. Read more

Symptoms of Nutritional Deficiencies

If you can answer yes to any of the following questions, then you are probably deficient in one or more essential elements.

-If your skin rough and dry?
Vitamin A.

-Do you suffer from lack of appetite?
A diet rich in B vitamins. Read more

The Importance of “Good “Vitamins

Vitamins are absolutely essential to maintain health and even life. A lack of vitamins or a “deficiency” quickly leads a variety of problems. Having an excess of vitamins in our system or “hypervitaminosis” is rather rare and can only occur if we are taking artificially made condensed vitamins. In fact, it is impossible to get an excess of vitamins from our diet alone. The vitamins contained in our foods are not in a concentrated form as are the synthetically made vitamins or those made from a concentrate extracted from foods.

Both vitamins concentrates extracted from foods and synthetic vitamins combined with foods are of tremendous quality and are beneficial to health. Read more

Stimulant Foods to Increase the Energy

Stimulant foods are substances that have the property to increase the level of energy, or the activity level of one of the system or of the whole organism. Stimulant foods compel the system to use its energy reserves without providing any additional nutritional intake. A proportionate nutritional intake would allow the system to compensate for the effort that it must provide in order to adapt to the stimulation.

There is no doubt that stimulant foods are a factor in the impoverishment of the system. Read more

Food Additives: Do We Eat A Lot of Them?

A food additive is a product that is added to a food in order to preserve or improve its features and properties. Almost all processed foods contain food additives and our diet is largely made up of those foods.

Many additives will not harm your health. What is more, they sometimes are absolutely essential to preserve the freshness of the product. However, food additives are often useless and many are harmful and, too often, they are both useless and harmful at the same time. Read more

Dairy Products : Nearly Perfect Foods

Dairy products are foods made from milk. Milk is also part of the dairy products category. Milk and milk products are good foods for the health of those who can digest them. They contain protein, fats, sugar, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, magnesium, vitamins A, D, E and B-complex vitamins.
 
Milk is a good source of high-quality protein. A cup of milk contains 8 grams of balanced protein-one-fourth of the daily protein needs of a young child and one-eighth to one-sixth that of an adult. Read more

Calcium: The Body’s Most Abundant Mineral

Calcium is by far is the most abundant mineral in the system. The body of the person weighting 70 kilos contains about 1.3 kilos of calcium. Of this quantity, close to 99% is found in the bones.

Calcium is essential for:

• The development, growth and strength of the bone structure;
• The permeability of the cellular membranes;
• A good neuromuscular performance;
• The heart contractions and rate; Read more

Importance of Minerals: How Avoid Deficiencies?

Just like vitamins, minerals are absolutely essential to maintain health and even life. Some minerals are present in a very small quantity, but be careful not to confuse quantity with usefulness. For example, the quantity of iodine contained in the system does not cover the head of a pin. Yet, it is responsible for making the difference between someone with a well-developed intelligence growing normally and someone who is rachitic and unintelligent. Consequently, you must make sure that your diet is rich in minerals of all kinds. Read more