Tagged: Supplements

How healthy are the strength supplements that we are using today?

How healthy are the strength supplements that we are using today?

How healthy are the strength supplements that we are using today? We’ve all heard of steroids, prohormones, and protein powders. And we know that the supplement industry is a billion dollar industry, often feeding on the weaknesses of people hoping to make dramatic changes to their physiques in a short period of time. But how do we know which muscle building supplements are the most popular, and how they affect the health of their users? We could look at some retail websites and see the top-selling supplements on their home pages, or, alternatively, we can examine what people are searching...

How To Avoid Paying Single Supplements

How To Avoid Paying Single Supplements

How To Avoid Paying Single Supplements Single supplements are a premium charge that you pay when you occupy a room by yourself when traveling. The price of many travel tours is based on “double occupancy.” If you prefer to room by yourself, you usually pay double the price. There are ways to avoid paying single supplements. Booking Travel You may be able to avoid paying single supplements if you ask the right questions when you book your travel. Ask if single supplements are charged year-round. Sometimes you can get a break during the off season. Ask if there are other...

Incorporating Vitamins And Nutritional Supplements Into A Healthy Weight Maintenance Program

Incorporating Vitamins And Nutritional Supplements Into A Healthy Weight Maintenance Program

Incorporating Vitamins And Nutritional Supplements Into A Healthy Weight Maintenance Program If you have spent a great deal of time and exerted a great deal of effort on losing weight, it goes without saying that you do not want to put those ugly pounds back on. Done correctly, a weight loss program is an investment. As a consequence, you are going to want to embark on a program through which you will be able to maintain a health weight now and in to the future. Of course, there are two fundamental keys to maintaining a healthy weight. First of all,...

Post Workout Muscle Supplements

Post Workout Muscle Supplements

Post Workout Muscle Supplements You’ve just finished an awesome workout, and you’re feeling pumped. You have plans with friends, so you move on to the locker room, hop in the shower, don your street clothes, and you are out the door thirty minutes later. You fight traffic for an additional thirty minutes, and finally meet up with your friends. Your window of opportunity has passed. You did not get the post workout muscle supplements that you needed to enhance muscle growth. Muscles are in a constant state or activity. They are either breaking down, or building up, and what you...

Natural Vs. Synthetic Vitamin Supplements

Natural Vs. Synthetic Vitamin Supplements

Natural Vs. Synthetic Vitamin Supplements A lot of people today are going crazy over natural products. They say that they are safer and more effective than those formulated in laboratories. The same debate goes on in the world of vitamin supplements. On one side are the proponents of natural supplements while on the other are the ones for the synthetic variety. But is there really a difference between the two? Yes and no. Why? Below are the answers. The most obvious difference between the two is that one is taken from a natural source while the other is formulated in...

Dietary Supplements – Do We Need Them?

Dietary Supplements – Do We Need Them?

Dietary Supplements – Do We Need Them? No dietary supplement can provide that, but with the assiduous use of vitamins and minerals, we can often achieve optimum health for our age group and certainly ease the symptoms of diseases we may suffer from. Dietary supplements can be divided into two main types; nutritional, (vitamins and minerals and amino acids) and botanical (herbal types). But is it really necessary for someone who is young and healthy to take dietary supplements? You may consider that your diet is healthy enough, but vegetables and dairy food can only be as good as the...

Bodybuilding Supplements may not be Necessary.

Bodybuilding Supplements may not be Necessary.

Bodybuilding Supplements may not be Necessary. To supplement or not to supplement – that is the question on more bodybuilder’s lips than ever before. Are they safe? What works and what doesn’t? Lets have a look at the basics. There are various reasons why athletes may be interested in supplementation.  Concern about getting adequate nutrients from our food supply.  Suspicion of pharmaceuticals.  Belief that diet alone will not achieve optimal nutrition Supplements include the following:  Vitamins  Minerals  Amino Acids  Herbs The concerning thing about supplements is that anything classified as a dietary supplement...

Different Supplements for Different Needs

Different Supplements for Different Needs

Different Supplements for Different Needs When you go to your local health and drug store, you will notice that there are a lot of different vitamin supplements on their shelves. You might wonder what each of them does so here are some helpful information to give you a low down on the most common vitamin supplements in the market. Multivitamins – this is arguably the most common form of vitamin supplement in the market. One tablet gives you the essential vitamins and minerals from – you know what follows next – A to Zinc. Vitamin B Complex – is a...

Forms of Vitamin Supplements

Forms of Vitamin Supplements

Forms of Vitamin Supplements Although the tablet is the most popular form of vitamin supplement, there are also other forms that are available in the market. Most, if not all, of these other forms claim to be more effective than others in delivering the vitamins to the body. Let us take a closer look at each of them and find out how effective they really are. Tablet – as mentioned earlier, this is the most ubiquitous form of vitamin supplements. And because it is readily available, a lot of people prefer to buy their supplements in this form. Others however,...

Should Dogs Take Supplements?

Should Dogs Take Supplements?

Should Dogs Take Supplements? It’s no mystery why we take supplements. The body is a complicated mechanism that fights every day to preserve its own well-being. Therefore, the body needs plenty of nutritional support that foods can’t always adequately provide. Because of high starch content, bleaching and over processing, many foods don’t contain enough minerals to adequately support the body. A deficiency of just one or more nutrients can leave the body vulnerable to disease. Furthermore, we must acknowledge that we each have biochemical individuality, so our bodies require different things depending on our age, environment, activity level and genetic...