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Nutritional Supplements Information
Taste is Everything When Choosing a Protein Bar
As consumers, we are faced daily with choices about what to eat. As a bodybuilder, we are bombarded with protein bars that promise everything from tons of protein, low carbs, less fat, and the cheapest bar on the market. But rarely do any of the bars meet the most necessary requirement of them all. If the bar
doesn't taste great, then I don't want to eat it.
8 Minerals Every Arthritis Sufferer Should Know About
Minerals are essential to maintain our bodies in top condition ...
7 Vitamins Every Arthritis Sufferer Should Know About
A deficiency of vitamins can lead to a variety of health problems, including some forms of arthritis.
What to Look For In Selecting A High Quality Nutritional Supplement!
Have you ever purchased something thinking you had bought a really good product only to later find out that you could have had a better product for the same money? I know I have. And our friend Henry is shortly about to discover this sick feeling for himself in a very personal way. You see, Henry had never seen the information contained in this report.
How To Choose a Glyconutrient Supplement
This article provides three easy tips for selecting a quality
glyconutrient supplement to make sure you always get the best
value for your money. These principals apply to any quality
nutritional supplements you may be buying as well.
Vitamin Supplements, Do We Need Them?
We live in a health conscious generation where vitamins and nutrition have become important topics. Through news, books, advertisements we are being educated as to why need to use vitamins. It?s great to see our generation become more aware of our health, but: Do We need take vitamins?
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3 Steps to Identify Supplements that Lack Scientific Evidence
You read about a supplement that allegedly "Boosts your mood and
motivation!" That sure sounds good so your surf over to the company's web site.
The web site looks official--it's even got footnotes
citing scientific journals. You're ready to purchase the supplement online until
you ask yourself, "What if this supplement doesn't really possess any scientific
evidence for its efficacy? How can I tell the difference between supplements
with solid evidence for their reported benefits versus those lacking any
scientific support?"
Here are the 3 Steps to answer those questions:
Step 1: Go to
http://www.pubmed.org
which is a National Library of Medicine (United States) web site where you can
search for articles published in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
Why check PubMed? Because the National Library of Medicine carefully selects
only high-quality journals that offer value to medical scientists around the world.
Selection criteria are detailed on this web page:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/jsel.html
Step 2: Once on the PubMed web site, search for research articles using the generic (scientific) name of the supplement in
question. Supplement
manufacturers must list the scientific name for their supplement's
ingredients on the
label and in advertisements.
Supplements often contain many ingredients but usually only a few provide the
purported benefits. Those are the ingredients you want to evaluate--they
are often the same ones the manufacturer highlights in advertisements.
Step 3: This is the step some
supplement
companies don't want you to know. Before you click on the "Search"
button at PubMed.org, limit your search to studies that utilize the right
research methodology with the right population.
The right research methodology is a randomized controlled trial (the
double-blind, placebo control group design fits under this category) and the
right population is human beings.
Specifying human subjects is important because you want to know if the
ingredients in a
supplement have been shown to produce the advertised benefits in real live
human beings--not just in rats pressing levers for food pellets or in a
"case study" with one person.
This is not to say that basic science research, which is often conducted
initially with animals, is unimportant.
On the contrary, such research usually serves as a crucial building block for
subsequent clinical
research with humans. But basic science research does not provide scientific
evidence for a supplement's beneficial health effects on human beings. Only
research with human subjects, using randomized controlled trials, can offer such
evidence.
On the PubMed.org search page, click on the "Limits" tab located under the
"Search"
box. You will see a number of drop-down menus. First click on the Publication
Type menu and then select Randomized Controlled Trial. Next click on
the drop-down menu labeled, Humans or Animals and click on Humans.
An Example
Morinda citrifolia is the scientific name for a popular ingredient in a
nutritional supplement. First search on PubMed for Morinda citrifolia,
without placing Limits on your search.
How many results did you receive?
The
count was 69 at the time I wrote this article.
Looks impressive, huh?
But now search for Morinda citrifolia after first placing Limits on
the search as described above, so that you receive only those studies which
provide more definitive scientific evidence for the positive effects of
Morinda citrifolia.
How many journal articles did you find searching with the specified
limits? I found 1.
Thus, out of 69 articles found on PubMed.org, only one provides some
evidence for
Morinda citrifolia's beneficial effects.
Too Many Books, Supplements, and Programs
If I read 1 good valid murder mystery book, would I really want that to be the ONLY book on the subject? If my 8th grade history book was considered to be accurate by the majority would I really want to be limited to only knowing one author's thoughts on the subject? Or how about browsers and music players? Do I just want to use IE? It gets the job done well enough.
What If You Could Turn Back The Clock To When You Were healthy?
What if there was a solution to protecting and restoring your health. What if you could turn back the clock and return to when you were healthy. You wonder why we have such horrific health problems, yet its right in front of your eyes. You all know that nutrition is important, but do you know why. What if given the right nutrition your body could heal itself of anything, and I mean anything. What if this was true and all you needed to do was give your body the right nutrition.
The Trillion Dollar Industry
There is a generation called the baby boomers that make up one third of the population and about two thirds of the purchasing population. They are individuals who were born around the late 40?s to early 60?s. Trends have shown that industries have boomed in relation to the needs of this generation. They are now of an age where health and aging is becoming extremely important issues to them and are prepared to spend big dollars.
Natural Human Growth Hormone: Hope or Hoax?
You may feel 30, but your body keeps reminding you you're not. You fatigue easily. Your bones and joints hurt more often. The only part of your body that's thinning is your hair. Aging occurs due to the growth of the tissues and other elements in side the body. With increasing age, physically and mentally healthy adults gradually become less fit and more vulnerable to illness and death. However, these changes happen at different rates in different people.
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