Beneficial Effects of B-complex Vitamins

The B complex is like a large family in which each vitamin is a distinctive member. Because B vitamins act together and complete each other, it is preferable to take them in compound form and not to take separately. It is important to understand that each of the vitamins from the B complex needs the others to be effective. In fact, the B-complex acts as a single vitamin, but with a multi-vitamin effect. Furthermore, the B complex is so important for health that it could be compared to the central part of a daisy, the other vitamins coming as the additions that surround it. Read more

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

Minerals: Where You Get Them and What They Do?

Magnesium. The human body contains about 30 mg of magnesium. It is essentially found in the bones, kidneys, liver, muscles and heart. The normal diet usually provides very little magnesium.

Magnesium is essential for:

• the transmission of the nervous impulse to the muscles
• the regulation of the heart’s contractions
• the efficiency of the immune system Read more

“Tired Blood” or Iron Deficiency

The human body contains between 3 and 5 gram of iron. A man’s body contains more of it than a woman’s does, since the woman regularly loses blood during her menses. In addition, it is popular belief that iron is usually associated with strength and with good reason.

Iron essential for: 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

A Healthy Liver: An Essential Key

Liver has a cleansing action in the body and is one of the organs protecting body. Whenever the liver malfunctions, the body’s defences are weakened and pert of the toxic substances absorbed pass directly into the blood stream. It fixes or transforms toxins: poisons contained in food (coffee, nicotine, chemical additives, refined sugar, etc.), eliminates wastes left by the primary digestive cycle and enables the digestion and the use of fats.