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Weight Loss can sometimes be an effective antidote to sleep apnea, a study has found.  People with type 2 diabetes or are overweight (or both) are prone to the sleep disorder, which causes a person to struggle for air through-out the night and increases the risk of heart attack, stroke, and death.  The study placed 264 obese people with type 2 diabetes and sleep apnea in either an intensive weight loss program or a diabetes support group.  The weight loss group was told to follow a strick diet and get 175 minutes per week of exercise, such a brisk walking.  After a year, the weight-loss participants had lost an average of 24 pounds, and sleep apnea disappeared in 14 % of them. For information on an highly effective weight loss program click here: http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/shaklee/2010productguide_v2/index.php?startid=Cover1&lre=1:rlhanson&lnkparams=&CMP=RAC-IZ7434764357#/72

“AGE is short for advanced glycation end products.  AGE proteins can age your arteries and cause big health trouble faster  than the kid at the counter can ask if you want fries with that.  What exactly are AGE’s?  In short they’re destructive “Franken Proteins” created by high-temperature cooking and also by the interaction of proteins and sugars in your bloodstream.  Diet is the biggest source of the AGEs raging through your bloodstream.  What’s good about that is that new research from Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York City reveals that you can lower your AGE levels by making a few smart food choices more often and tweaking the way you cook your food.”  You can also supplement your diet with a new product.  To find out more click here.

Researchers say Mom was right:  Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.  A study of 93 overweight Latino-kids with a family history of type 2 diabetes found that those who skipped breakfast had more abdominal fat than the kids who are breakfast regularly–regardless of total body fat and total daily calorie intake.  The finding is particularly important because deep abdominal fat is a rish facto for insulin resistance and diabetes.”  -Diabetes Forcast, Nov. 2009-

“Dining more often on fish may keep your mind fresh.  When researchers interviewed nearly 15,000 adults age 65 and over in seven low and middle-income families, they discovered that those who ate fish almost every day were 19% less likely to have dementia than those who are it less frequently.  Plus, the amount of fish the seniors are was directly linked to disease risk.  So, upping fish intake even a little can lower the chance of developing dementia.” – Diabetes Forcast, Nov. 2009

“Walk it off!  You can blunt the effect of a post-meal blood glucose spike by talking an after-dinner walk.  In a small study, researchers at Old Dominion University in Virginia found that participant’spost-meal blood clucose reading was lower when they took a 20-minute storll after dinner than when they walked before eating.” -Diabetes Forecast, Nov. 09-

“Healthy Habits can keep chronic illness at bay, according to a study of more than 23,000 Germans.  Researchers looked at the lifestyles and health records of adults ages 35 to 65,  After about eight years of follow-up, they found that that ththose who had maintained a healthy weight, exercised for at least 31/2 hours a week, never smoked, and eaten plenty of fruit, vegetables, and whole grains were 78% less likely to develop cardiovascular disease, diabetes, or cancer than those who didn’t practice prevention.  Participants with all four positive habits had a 93% reduction in risk of developing diabetes.”  -Diabetes Forcast Nov. 09-

Researchers say Mom was right, according to a recent tidbit published in the Nov Diabetes e.  “Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.  A study of 93 overweight Latino kids with a family history of type 2 diabetes fount that those who skipped breakfast had more abdominal fat than kids who are breakfast regularly–regardless of total body fat and total daily calorie intake.”

Should we buy the least expensive vitamins, herbals, other supplements or should we look for nutritional products that are validated by solid science and not marketing science.  I choose to go for solid science.  I am going to pay more for a premium product but I am going to get better results.  Just because the product is on the shelf does not mean that it has been formulated based on solid science.  We need to do the research.  What do you think?

A supplement will often have vitamins in it, but will also likely contain a variety of minerals, enzymes, amino acids or even herbs. Supplements tend to be more complex formulations which are designed to meet the needs of particular ailments or nutritional deficiencies.

We can supplement our diets with vitamins alone, or, as most of us do, we can supplement our diet with vitamins and the other biological needs our body has.

Whole food supplements are exactly as the name describes them. Derived from whole foods, which research has proven to be beneficial to the human body, whole food supplements deliver high does of vitamins and minerals.

It’s all food for thought!

A vitamin is an organic substance, a molecule that helps you and your body respond well to life. The only way you can absorb vitamins is as energy from the sun, from natural and organic foods, and from nutritional sources – i.e. natural and organic vitamins.

A compound is called a vitamin when an organism cannot produce or store sufficient amounts of the required compound and therefore must ingest it through diet in order to stay healthy. Vitamins are required for the normal growth and cellular development of any living organism. Deficiencies in certain vitamins may be the result of either poor diet and lifestyle or, on a more concerning note, the result of some disease in the body which prevents the absorption of particular nutritional bodily requirements. For any of these, supplementation with nutritional vitamins and supplements has been proven effective over time.

The erosion of organic soil and the highly processed food diets of modern North American have resulted in epidemic levels of vitamin deficiencies for many people. Even once we are fully grown, vitality and good health are maintained by proper diet, exercise and getting all the vitamins our bodies require to live well.

Other modern factors which support the daily use of vitamin supplementation include stress, pollution and environmental factors. These days a good, natural-sourced multi-vitamin is considered the bare minimum recommended daily vitamin intake for all children and adults.

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