Wednesday, July 16, 2008 

Obesity ups a woman's pancreatic cancer risk: study (Reuters)

Reuters - Obese women who carry most of their extra weight around the stomach are 70 percent more likely to develop pancreatic cancer, an international team of researchers reported on Tuesday.

But I eat healthy, you might say. That may be but if you are not supplementing

your diet with nutritional supplements then you likely have certain nutritional

deficiencies. You might be eating everything you should be but the problem is that

the majority of our fruits and vegetables today do not have the nutrients they once

had. They have been stripped of their valuable nutrients by big business farming

practices, premature picking and improper storage practices. While we may think we

are eating well we are eating empty calories from nutrient stripped food grown in

land stripped of the necessary minerals to produce healthy food.

Could this improper nutrition be why we have so much disease today? Consider your

grandparents and their families and think about how long they lived. You will find

that for the most part they lived longer and without the help of pharmaceutical

medications. Elderly people today seem to be on long lists of drugs and they are

still plagued by Alzheimers and other disease. There were two differences in their

lives. They were not subject to the environmental hazards which plague our world

today and their food was wholesome.

Our food is probably not going to get any better. Therefore it is a necessity to

supplement with professional quality nutritional supplements.

With so many supplements on the market making outrageous claims it can be difficult

to know which ones are good. Some supplements claim that you must use a liquid

supplement because tablets dont break down in the body. hyaluronic acid na hyaluronate therapy is simply not true. If

it were, most of our medications would be in liquid form. This is only a problem

when tablet supplements are not designed with quality in mind so that they break

down. In fact, liquid supplements are not as effective as properly made tablets

because the acid in the stomach attacks it before it has a chance to be absorbed

into the blood stream. Pharmaceutical grade medications have solved this problem by

using a special enteric coating which is designed to protect the tablet while it

passes through the stomach. Our third generation Total Balance supplements now use

this coating technology.

The delivery systems or coating is one aspect of a quality supplement but what about

the formula itself. Of equal importance is the quality of the ingredients and the

manufacturing and blending procedures.

Not only are the ingredients important but the formula mixture is also vital to a

quality supplement. Different ingredients react differently with each other. They

can react in a positive way but also in dangerous ways. Dr. A. Munem, head of our

Research and Development department, examines how our ingredients interact with each

other to ensure correct formulas.

Selecting the right ingredients is very important because there can be huge

variances in ingredients from different manufacturers. Biotin for example is

available from 3% potency to 99% potency. While most manufacturers use raw

ingredients with approximately 20% active ingredients we use more potent versions

which have 60% potency.

Herbal ingredients can have even greater variations than other ingredients because

of the different extraction methods that are used and the percentage of actives. For

example, in some instances the non active ingredient can actually be more active in

the product than the active ingredient because it is needed to carry the active

ingredient.

The other problem with so many supplements is that they often do not contain what

they claim to contain. First of all, this occurs because of the fact that there are

no regulatory requirements in the USA where these supplements are made. This problem

is then made worse because of the intense competition among supplement

manufacturers. Secondly, this happens because of the complexity of the blending

process.

It is important that you understand the issues around supplements and how to choose

good quality nutritional supplementation. Something to also keep in mind is that

just because a product says it is manufactured in an FDA approved facility or a

pharmaceutical facility this only means that the facility has met certain hygiene

requirements.

We follow all of the above procedures in producing our supplements because our

business is based on establishing life long satisfied customers. In order to do this

we must provide the best value for the money of any professional

health supplement. In fact, we guarantee this in writing!

Barry is a Distributor for Xtend Life Natural Products. Feed your body with the most comprehensive formula designed for maximum

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