Why
Supplements are MUST for everyone?
Doctors don’t
know the value of Nutritional Medicine!!!
In our country
doctors are mostly disease oriented. Doctors
study diseases and look for disease. They pharmacologically (drugs) treat
the diseases. We all don't know how our body absorbs each drug and metabolizes
it and excretes it. Lots of drugs are taken by patients every day for small
health issues. Do we all know what happens to our body if we take such drugs
which are some chemical molecules? Most of us don't care for our health till we
end up with some diseases. Then we start spending more money and time, even
doing that so we end up with restricted mobility. Why so?
Because during
the drugs, therapy most of doctors don't prescribe Nutritional supplements (or)
even if they prescribe patients don't take it because they think it is
unnecessary. This leads to lots & lots of unwanted things happening to our
body like a World War II. It is called Free Radical Damage which leads you to Chronic
Diseases. You can prevent it by inducing lot of anti-oxidants to your body. It is possible only through
supplements.
Why Supplements?
We should take supplements based
on three different factors:
- Food
Choices
- Life
Stages
- Environmental
and lifestyle factors
1.
Food Choices - the
quantity and quality of food we eat:
There are several factors that
can lead to less than a perfect diet.
- Lack of
variety - we tend to eat the same foods every day. But greater
the variety of foods we eat the more we are likely to meet our daily
nutrient needs.
- Flavor
- we eat what tastes good, not necessarily what is good for us.
- Low intake
of fruit and vegetables - we are supposed to eat 5 or more
servings of fruit and vegetables every day. But do we?
- Convenience
- we often choose our meals based on how easy they are to prepare and how
fast we can eat them, rather than on how nutritious they are.
- Skipping
meals - missing meals may result in missing important
nutrients.
- Dieting - Restricting food intake makes us vulnerable to decreased vitamin and mineral intake.
2.
Life stages -
Nutritional requirements vary with each stage of life:
- Children
and Adolescents - Rapid growth and development often increase
the need for vitamins and minerals. Young children may be at particular
risk for low calcium intake, and adolescents, especially teenage girls,
tend to have low intakes of vitamin A, calcium, magnesium and zinc.
- Middle age
- The activities associated with a busy schedule, work, family,
obligations and commitments, physical and emotional challenges can all put
pressure on our nutrient needs.
- Mature
years - As we age, our bodies have to work harder to digest
foods and properly absorb nutrients. Lack of exercise, lack of appetite,
medications, can all make it more difficult to maintain a balanced diet.
- Pregnancy
and breast feeding - These stages significantly increase a
woman's need for vitamins and minerals, especially iron, calcium and folic
acid.
3.
Environmental and
lifestyle factors:
- Challenges
- affect us in different ways. Whether it be physical, psychological or emotional
challenges can be detrimental to health. Some effects that challenges may
have on us are we may lose our appetite, skip meals, overeat, east sweets
or empty calories food, smoke or drink.
- Medication
- These may inhibit or increase the absorption of nutrients, increase the
loss of nutrients from the body or interfere with the metabolism of
nutrients.
- Smoking
and air pollution - Smoking unnaturally increases the need for
vitamin C. Exposure to cigarette smoke and polluted air may increase the
production of damaging free radicals in the body, which requires an
increases intake of antioxidant nutrients.
- Drinking
coffee and tea - Affect our bodies’ ability to digest the
nutrients in food.
- Heavy
exercise - Those who train heavily need to pay special attention
to diet to ensure appropriate levels of protein, iron and antioxidants are
consumed.
- Alcohol
Consumption - Frequent consumption can impair digestion and
absorption and directly interfere with the body's use of nutrients.
Need More
Info on Supplements?
Health and Wellness industry is
the next emerging industry in the world. Many doctors and scientists have done research on
supplements how they can add value to your life. Some doctors have published the books
about supplements. Go through these books for in depth information on supplements:
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