January 31, 2012
When selecting a fish oil supplement, make sure to read the supplement facts to know how much EPA and DHA you are getting. A 1000 milligram fish oil soft gel refers only to the size of the soft gel, not to its levels of EPA and DHA. Levels of EPA and DHA vary among different products. Some fish oil supplements have as little as 150 milligrams of EPA and DHA combined per soft gel. Others contain more, depending on the quality of the supplement. For example, the WinOmeg3complex fish oil supplement, contains 700 milligrams of EPA and DHA. Since fish oil is safe for long-term use, consider taking it daily to alleviate a variety of mental and physical health challenges and risks.
If you are looking for the highest quality supplement, try WINOmeg3complex, which is one of the most concentrated fish oils available. While the lowest quality fish oil may only contain 20%-24% of omega-3 fatty acids and health food grade fish oil may contain between 30%-34%, pharmaceutical grade fish oils have as much as 60%-65%. WINOmeg3complex trumps all of these, with a whopping 85% or greater amount of omega-3 fatty acids.
With WINOmeg3complex, you get:
- 3x the potency
- purity from the removal of heavy metal toxins
- no extra cholesterol, as is often found in lower grades
- no fishy aftertaste as you might get with poorly manufactured supplements
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January 25, 2012
If your joints ache, if your skin could use some revitalization, or if you’ve ever wondered how you can maintain your health, omega-3 may be a solution.
Omega-3 Acids
- promote heart health
- decrease the chance of a heart attack
- reduce blood pressure
- stabilize heart rhythm
- nourish the skin
- serve as natural anti-inflammatories
- provide essential nutrients to babies during pregnancy and breastfeeding
Neither people nor animals can produce omega-3 acids naturally, but polyunsaturated fatty acids are critical to normal body function. Two types of essential polyunsaturated fatty acids exist: the omega-6 family and the omega-3 family.
Sources of Omega-6 Fatty Acids
- terrestrial plants
- animals that eat terrestrial plants
- cooking oils such as corn and soybean
Sources of Omega-3 Acids
- marine plankton
- marine species along the same food chain as plankton
Next… How to choose the best fish oil…
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January 17, 2012
If you’ve ever asked yourself the question, “how will I look and feel ten years from now?,” then you are probably also curious about how to stay healthy and how to slow the signs of aging. Did you know that our bodies don’t actually age or become ill? Rather, the cells in our body do. Consider this: if your car’s gasoline tank were filled with buttermilk instead, the car would stop working. The body is the same. In order to keep the body functioning properly, we have to protect and properly feed our cells.
So how exactly do cells age? If atoms in our cells are healthy, then they will replicate (make an exact copy) and keep the body young and free of disease. Any healthy atom will have a pair of electrons. If an atom is missing an electron, then that atom will begin to destroy neighboring atoms by stealing their electrons. A free radical is an atom missing an electron. As cells die or replicate incompletely, premature aging, sickness, or diseases such as cancer, heart disease, and osteoporosis become more likely.
Sources of Free radicals
- smoking
- stress
- sunlight
- pesticides
- pollution
- airline travel
- medications
- foods and food additives
- x-rays
- exercise
- chlorine in treated water
- mercury in seafood and teeth fillings
Next… How antioxidants fight the signs of aging…
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January 11, 2012
Feel more energized with CoQ10. The Co stands for coenzyme, and CoQ10 is just that, a coenzyme.
This coenzyme can:
- boost your energy level
- your heart health
- act as an effective antioxidant to slow the aging process
Our doctor-recommended WIN CoQ10 is the best of the products available. WIN CoQ10 can even help regenerate other antioxidants such as vitamin E and C. Whether you are as young as 20 or are thriving as a centenarian, your body will gradually lose its ability to create and metabolize natural CoQ10, leaving it deficient of this critical and powerful protectant against weariness and illness. CoQ10 allows you to have a more optimal immune system, so that you feel your best. It is particularly beneficial to large, vital organs and promote cognitive and nerve function as well as musculoskeletal health.
WIN CoQ10
- uses a crystal free technology that contains 50 mg of the most advanced and adsorbent CoQ10 available on today’s market, called ubiquinol
- adsorbs 8x more quickly than other supplements
- maintains higher levels of CoQ10 in the body over time
- provides ideal support for your heart, which uses a lot of energy, so that you can combat heart disease, which is estimated to be responsible for 30% of all deaths in the U.S. (more than all forms of cancer combined)
Choose WIN CoQ10 for heart and energy health today!
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January 3, 2012
Premature picking of America’s fruits and vegetables is problematic because the produce we buy may lose nutritional value and may be less safe to eat. For example, cherries that are picked too early may have as much as 50% less vitamin C. It is one major threat to vitamin drain, but others exist too.
Other Threats to Vitamin Drain
- changing climates
- fertilizer use
- change in soil composition
The typical solution of breeders is to inject foreign genes into fruits and vegetables in order to force them to produce more nutrients. Often, entirely new compounds with unknown effects are also created.
If the amount of vitamins that should be in vegetables is no longer present, taking vitamin supplements can serve as one useful fix. Although supplements cannot replace food sources of vitamins, they can still give a less-than-stellar diet a much needed boost. Calcium is one such mineral disappearing from vegetables.
Calcium supplements can:
- keep as many as 100,000 people out of the hospital
- save America $2.6 billion in medical expenses
Likewise, Magnesium supplements can reduce the number of people who get colon or rectal cancer. A large variety of nutrients and trace minerals such as chromium further contribute to health and wellness. For optimal health, consider including vitamin supplements in your regular diet to eliminate deficiencies.
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December 28, 2011
Big, green, hybrid, inbred, and watery produce plague our supermarkets and our dining tables. Ever wondered why tomatoes in today’s marketplace are pinkish instead of red? Nutrient loss has been occurring steadily among America’s vegetables for some time now. These days, commercial fruit and vegetables are being picked green.
Premature picking
- green fruits don’t have a chance to ripen naturally in the sun
- ethylene, a natural plant hormone, is used to artificially ripen produce
- ethylene is the reason why tomatoes are often rather pinkish.
- without natural sunlight, fruits and vegetables can’t develop nutrients such as Anthocyanins
Anthocyanins
- flavonoids that make cherries red and grapes purple
- act as a plant sunscreen
- protect humans from DNA damage, brain cell damage, and cancer
Next… why green picking means we need supplements…Happy New Year!
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December 22, 2011
As we mentioned last time, vitamins are disappearing from America’s vegetables. This apparent vitamin drain is quite worrisome. The reason behind this vitamin loss over time is pretty simple though. It’s called the dilution effect. The more water and pith in a vegetable, the less vitamin content there is. As plant breeders selectively breed vegetables for the qualities that shoppers want, the proportion of pith to vitamins, or the fibrous part of fruits and vegetables, is going up. Pith in itself is not bad. Unfortunately, it’s also the portion of a fruit or vegetable that we usually throw away! Take the netting of orange sections for example.
As our foods turn into commodities, vegetables that are infamous for being healthy, those ones that many people love to hate, are suddenly not as healthy as they once were. The most commonly available broccoli, which should be high in calcium, is now a hybrid called Marathon that lacks much of the calcium and magnesium that it should have. Now, that’s a troublesome thought! More next time on green or premature produce…Happy Holidays!
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December 20, 2011
Bigger… brighter… juicier… these are the traits we crave in our vegetables, right? Well, so do commercial plant breeders. With tomatoes that are as perfectly round as tennis balls and strawberries that are bigger and redder, commercial plant breeders are producing fruit and vegetables that ship well, look good, and weigh more. These traits seem desirable, and are, for the most part. The problem is that vegetables have been losing their nutritional value. How can that be? A vegetable is a vegetable and a fruit is a fruit right? Not so.
Calcium, riboflavin, vitamin C, iron, potassium, and protein have all seriously decreased in America’s vegetables since 1950. So that big, red strawberry…? It may look bigger, redder, and more delicious, but today’s vegetables are often less flavorful and less nutritional. A “vitamin drain” seems to be in the works.
Next… The vitamin drain…
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December 13, 2011
Every second, every minute, every hour, of every day, we lose tissue and organ cells. Our bodies become older through cellular aging in order to keep them working properly and maintain balance. Over time, our cells divide, grow, and repair themselves more inefficiently. This process of reduced cell efficiency over time is called senescence. In order to live and thrive, we have to replace lost cells at the same rate that we lose them. Aging is most obvious when a clear imbalance between the two is present. 5 main reasons we age are:
- Glycation
- Inflammation
- Oxidation
- Methylation
- Telomere Reduction
Glycation and high blood sugar go hand in hand. Damage to our bodies occurs when extra glucose molecules attach to proteins and these proteins can no longer function properly as their structures break down. Glycation can be minimized through blood sugar regulation. Inflammation occurs when our bodies have too much eiconsanoids (substances similar to hormones) and cytokines (immune system chemicals). While we need both, the amount we have can get out of control. Inflammation may lead to diabetes, obesity, and heart and digestive disorders. Chronic inflammation may occur with protein glycation, regular frying of foods, poor diet and lifestyle choices, and high blood sugar levels.
Oxidation occurs when molecules with unstable oxygen atoms, called free radicals, give up electrons during energy release. Excess free radicals damage our cells and even our DNA. Methylation occurs when some genes are activated and others are turned off. Our bodies need it for cell development, but errors in gene activation may prevent beneficial proteins from being made. Telomeres are repeating sequences of DNA at the end of chromosomes that regulate cell division. Although telomeres shorten with each cell division, accelerated shortening from obesity and lack of exercise halts chromosome division and ages us dramatically.
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December 6, 2011
We can’t control our genes, but we can choose the lifestyle we lead. We can maintain our weight in a normal range. We can avoid smoking. We can moderate how much alcohol we drink. We can exercise regularly. We can manage our stress. We can eat a healthier diet. These types of actions and habits allow us to age more gracefully.
Heart disease, stroke, cancer, and diabetes are all preventable diseases that are influenced by these lifestyle choices. While modern medicine, dentistry, and plumbing have vastly improved how well and how long we live, the Technological and Information Age, in which we now live, has created some major nutritional health threats that our Stone Age predecessors did not experience. Back then, feast or famine was the motto. Now, that threat of starvation has turned into overeating among many of us. We have gone from activity to inactivity with the advent of labor-saving and mass-produced devices that lessen our burdens, but also cut down on how much exercise we get. The risk of dying from thirst is now overshadowed by problems with hypertension. Rather than clotting wounds to prevent infections and avoid bleeding to death as was needed in the Stone Age, artery clotting may lead to heart disease, heart attack, or stroke. Acute stress that led to “flight-or-fight” responses have become chronic stresses that may lead to both mental and physical issues ranging from anxiety, insomnia, and depression to diabetes and Alzheimer’s.
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