Health: Vitamin and Mineral Supplement Benefits

Vitamin and Mineral Supplement Benefits

Written by Jeff Matson

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Mineral Supplements

Calcium- Calcium is known to protect bones and make them stronger, but it also helps in lowering blood pressure and preventing colon cancer and PMS (pre-menstrual syndrome). Make sure you only take repparttar recommended amount of calcium per day. Too much calcium can increase repparttar 143958 risk of prostate cancer in men.

Chromium- This mineral assists repparttar 143959 hormone insulin and helps it to operate more efficiently. When repparttar 143960 insulin is functioning at repparttar 143961 appropriate level, your blood sugar levels are lower, which is helpful to individuals with type 2 diabetes. This mineral has also been proven to help with weight loss.

Iron- Lack of iron can cause fatigue and low energy levels. Iron deficiency is usually found in pre-menopausal women, athletes and vegetarians. Although iron helps boost your energy levels, too much of this mineral may cause heart disease and can place you at higher risks for cancer.

If you feel as though your daily diet does not provide you with adequate amounts of vitamins and minerals, taking supplements can greatly improve your lifestyle and can give you repparttar 143962 energy and repparttar 143963 boost you need to get you through repparttar 143964 day. Always remember that vitamin and mineral supplements are to be used in combination with food and are in no way meant as a replacement for a healthy diet.

Health-related information changes frequently and while every attempt has been made to ensure repparttar 143965 content in this article is accurate, you should always check with a doctor or nutritional expert before undertaking any substantial changes in diet or lifestyle.

Jeff Matson is an avid health enthusiast who owned and operated his own natural health food store. Now retired, Jeff spends his time keeping fit, walking marathons and writing articles as a contributing editor for http://www.vitamin-insight.com - a site that offers information on vitamins and minerals.

Defibrillator Recall

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new revisions would make it safer. Later, in 2004, doctors discovered that Contak Renewal defibrillators built before August 26, 2004 demonstrated a high risk of short circuiting and failing to function properly. When Guidant was presented with these two problems they decided it was in their best interest to publicly recall their defective products. This however is providing little comfort to repparttar 143958

50,000 people who continue to live in constant fear that their life-saving equipment might fail them when they need it most.

To learn more about the Guidant Defibrillator recall please visit http://www.sddefenselawyers.com/guidant-defibrillator-recall/ This article may be freely republished as long as this resource box is included and all links stay in tact as hyper links.

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