Health: Why should you take Nutritional Supplements?

Why should you take Nutritional Supplements?

Written by Dan Ho

A busy lifestyle leaves little time for planning meals and cooking. It's far too easy to fill up repparttar

diet with empty calories in fast and convenience foods. Packaged and prepared mixes make life easy, but seldom provide all repparttar 113549

nutrients your body needs to stay healthy. A good multinutrient supplement can help fill in repparttar 113550

gaps in your diet when you're too busy to eat balanced meals. But what if you eat a healthy diet? Do you still need to take vitamin and nutritional supplements? According to most experts on nutrition and repparttar 113551

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answer is, quite honestly, yes. Over repparttar 113553

past ten years, scientists who study medical conditions like diabetes and coronary disease have all noted alarming rises in repparttar 113554

incidence of those diseases. It's not just that there are more people being diagnosed with diabetes or heart disease. The profile of those being diagnosed has changed dramatically. For repparttar 113555

first time ever, doctors are seeing significant number of children with adult onset diabetes and other conditions that were once thought to exclusively begin in middle age. Nearly every one of those conditions has been linked to diet and nutritional deficiencies. Why is this happening in a society as wealthy and well-fed as ours? The reasons are all wrapped up in our way of life and repparttar 113556

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past 100 year some nutriitonists argue. One hundred years ago, most foods were grown and raised on small farms. Farmers rotated their crops regularly to get repparttar 113559

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soil needed replenishing in order for repparttar 113561

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foods weren't processed.

My Introduction to Tahitian Noni Juice

Written by David Parton

Holy Crow! I am still awake. Amazing. It didn't always used to be like this. I could never get out of bed in High School. I could never stay awake in class, either. I never had any energy and I was depressed all repparttar time.

In my thirties my doctor said I was Manic/depressive or Bi-polar and put me on Lithium and anti-depressants. I was till sleepy all repparttar 113548 time and my bouts of sudden naps at inappropriate moments increased. I just couldn't accomplish anything without running out of steam. That bummed me out further. I really didn't notice any change with all repparttar 113549 meds except for repparttar 113550 side effects so stopped taking them. I waited for my world to cave in but nothing happened. I was exactly repparttar 113551 same without repparttar 113552 dry mouth, headaches and pill-popping. I just concluded that I was just your average, run-of-the-mill screw-up and I would never amount to much.

Meanwhile, I kept under-performing at my job and I lived in a state of anxiety that I would get fired. They said I had a bad attitude but I was just depressed and exhausted. It's pretty hard to be sunny and bright when you have your own black cloud raining on you. My nap attacks were frequent. I would feel my stamina draining away like someone pulled a plug in my energy sink. A couple minutes warning was all I had. Enough time to sneak into a toilet stall and take a 15 minute snooze. They probably thought I had a colon problem. Hee hee.

I lacked repparttar 113553 energy to keep my girlfriends socially entertained so they disappeared. I crashed several cars. My memory failed frequently and my cognitive skills were mushy. So what repparttar 113554 hell was wrong with me?

By chance I read an article about sleep disorders. I turns out I suffer from not one but two different sleep disorders. Probably because I am a Gemini: repparttar 113555 twins.

I was bagged all repparttar 113556 time because I could not attain deep sleep. Result: daily fatigue. Why? Because of Sleep Apnea. That's when your windpipe partially collapses when you lie down and your oxygen flow is restricted. Your brain panics and goes into survival-mode. Respiration is increased, your heart beats like crazy and you awaken gasping for air only to fall asleep immediately and repparttar 113557 cycle resumes. In my case, this would happen 30-60 times in a night. And I was classified as a mild case! The funny thing is in repparttar 113558 morning I thought I had an uninterrupted night's sleep.

The other disorder, Narcolepsy, is caused by some chemical imbalance in my brain. The result: no matter how much sleep I would get I would still fall asleep at repparttar 113559 drop of a hat. I tried to fight it but I would still nod off a dozen times during repparttar 113560 day. Nothing like repparttar 113561 crunch of my bumper striking another speeding car to snap me awake again. Or repparttar 113562 sudden pain of a fat-lip as I walked into a wall.

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