The jury is still out on whether or not you need that multivitamin supplement
daily. Some medical professionals will tell you that you should get all your nutrients from your food, while others may inform you that it is safer to supplement your diet with a daily multivitamin. One thing that they all do seem to agree on though is that there is a very low risk of toxicity in the use of multivitamins. It is this fact that prompts many doctors and nutritionists to recommend the use of a daily multivitamin as it is almost certain that the potential benefits of multivitamins far outweigh the potential for harm.
In a perfect world we would all love a wide variety of foods. We would be able to source and prepare fresh food every day, three times a day at least. Nobody will have allergies or be intolerant of specific food types, and all our kids would just adore their veggies and fish. You would never be in a rush to get something on the table late at night after work amidst countless other family and professional obligations. No meeting, seminar or deadline would ever make it difficult for you to have a healthy lunch. It would also never be necessary to have to grab something on the way to work or on the run to the kids’ soccer matches. In another lifetime perhaps!
Another matter that invariably plays a role in just about any aspect of our lives of course is the cost involved. Have you ever noticed how expensive natural healthy food is in relation to most take-out meals and many of the prepackaged meals or snacks? It really is no wonder that obesity rates in many of the poorer communities are so often higher than in wealthier neighborhoods. All the cheaper snacks such as one-minute noodles, crisps, pies, biscuits and sweets are incredibly high in calories, sugar, fat, and salt – but still offers the body nothing in terms of nutrition. We are all also too familiar with the nutritional content, or rather lack thereof, when it comes to fast food and most prepackaged meals. The result of indulging in these meals and snacks is that your body keeps on demanding food to get more of those missing nutrients, often with disastrous consequences. Continue reading about multivitamin supplements
Guest writer: Mari C
This testimonial for Allen Carr’s The Easy Way To Stop Smoking
is something I have wanted to do for many years, but have never really been able to get round to it. One benefit of having to wait so long to add my 2 cents’ worth to the millions of other success stories already available on the Internet is that I can now happily report that I haven’t had a cigarette for just over three years! And I am now a non-smoker – not an ex-smoker that keeps on craving cigarettes. I can sit next to someone else who is smoking and it does not bother me in the least.
How do I know that I will probably never smoke again? About 6 months after I stopped smoking my 11 year old son was diagnosed with a very rare and life threatening bone marrow failure disease. On my way home from the hospital very late that night, I did stop at a garage for a packet of cigarettes, convinced that I will not make it through the night without the familiar comfort offered by a cigarette. As soon as I got home, I went out onto the patio and was about to light a cigarette when I realized that my mindset actually had changed forever. I really did not need or want that cigarette after all! Today, my son is in recovery and doing just great. When I finally managed to stop I always wondered if I would be strong enough when faced with a real crisis. Now I know.
Some background then. I was always the person voted most likely never to stop smoking. My colleagues and friends were convinced there is nothing under the sun that can help me stop. I was a total chain smoker before legislation was introduced to ban smoking in the workplace. I would light up a new cigarette even though I already had one burning in the ashtray, so automatic did this habit become. When smoking at my desk was no longer an option, I could very often be found outside (normally with loads of printouts as not to impact on the deadlines too much) for a smoke at least once every hour, and would organize meetings in the smoking area whenever I could. Even with the restricted smoking time, I still managed a respectable 40 a day! I can go on and on about my behavior as a smoker, but I think you get the picture by now.
I tried Smokenders, Zyban, nicotine patches and sprays, going cold turkey, and whatever other stop-smoking strategy else you can think of too many times to count – and always with a very predictable outcome. Most of the time I was lucky if my latest and greatest attempt to stop smoking lasted through to noon on the first day. It goes without saying that I was never shy to announce to the world that “This time I am stopping for good” just to have a good giggle next time I see my ever patient cheering squad, smoke in hand. Gradually reducing the number of cigarettes I smoke daily is another stop-smoking strategy that I have tried and this was probably, for me at least, the least successful of all. By slowly limiting the number of cigarettes per day, I found that it actually made me more reliant on the few I allowed myself to have. My eyes would burn from the strain of trying to concentrate on my work while my brain kept on calculating the time left until the next fix. Continue reading how to stop smoking the easy way with Allen Carr
