Chromium will help slow down the aging process
A chromium deficiency can – increase sugar cravings, decrease muscle, increase fat, decrease metabolism, increase blood pressure, decrease bone density,and cause heart problems. Chromium is vital if you want to protect against AGEs (Advanced Glycation End-products). This is a major factor in the aging process, speeding up cell damage and cell death.
Continually high blood sugar levels will encourage more AGEs. Chromium will help reduce your craving for sugar, which will be the first step to stabilizing your blood sugar levels. Doing this will slow down aging and help you lose weight.
Read MoreMagnesium – we need more
Magnesium is a vital component of bones and teeth. It is closely involved in the release of energy and the correct functioning of the nerves and muscles. This mineral is too often deficient in most people’s diet.
There are 300 different enzymes in the body that are dependent on magnesium. Unfortunately, it is very easy to be deficient in magnesium as typical diets lack the amounts needed. Stress drains this mineral.
Read MoreZinc is so important
Many people appear to be zinc deficient, hair and blood tests give little indication of this. Zinc is extremely important in so many functions and enzyme reactions, it also protects our DNA. It helps to maintain a healthy immune system and is needed for repair, for a healthy sperm count, healthy skin, wound healing and maintaining taste and smell.
Found in whole grains, some nuts and seeds especially pumpkin seeds. Deficiency symptoms are quite varied – white marks on the finger nails, appetite problems (especially associated with eating problems), poor skin –
Read More14 ways to easily get more daily anti-oxidants
By now everyone knows that antioxidants are incredibly beneficial to their health. Antioxidants can help prevent cancer, slow down or even reverse aging, improve immunity, increase your energy, strengthen the circulation and other systems. Given this information it’s amazing more people don’t eat enough fruits and vegetables on a daily basis. They are our primary source of antioxidants and the popular press have reported many times about the “5 a day” but for optimum health 8 to 10 servings of fruit and vegetables daily is nearer the mark.
Here are some simple steps to add more anti-oxidants to your diet.
Read MoreSo what is the role of calcium that circulates in the blood?
Calcium acts as our body’s neutralizer, ensuring balance between acid/alkaline.
When we eat too many acid-forming foods. When I say ‘acid forming foods’ I don’t mean foods like lemons (which incidentally are neutralizing, they are alkaline forming in the body). I am referring to the effect food has on our bodies once it have been eaten and digested. Generally, plant foods are alkaline forming (a few can be acid forming) and animal products in general are acid forming foods to varying degrees. So if you are continually eating acid forming foods, you are constantly forcing your bones to leach out calcium in order to keep the pH of the blood balanced. Also a substance that is very acid forming is sugar and most people consume plenty everyday.
So our first step is to reduce our acid levels, this will stop so much calcium being used from our bones. Number one on the list is pork then beef then lamb and chicken. A 67kg or 10½ stone person needs no more than 40gm or 1½oz of protein a day. It is estimated that for every 10g of extra protein we eat a100mg of calcium, is lost in our urine.
The link between high protein intake and calcium loss has been known to scientists for over 50 years. One of many studies took a group of 1,600 women and found that the vegetarians among them had only 18 per cent bone mass loss compared to 35 per cent bone mass loss by meat eaters. I am not suggesting you need to become a vegetarian, as that would be simplifying the situation. Vegetarians can still eat too much sugar or drink too much coffee etc.
In general it has been found that vegetarians are more health conscious than meat eaters, that there are many aspects to their diets that differ not just the fact that they do or do not eat meat.
Can we get too much of a good thing? We have all heard how we all need more calcium. Yet there is a very real danger of taking too much. We end up with large amounts circulating in the blood stream, creating a very real chance of it being dumped in places other than the bones. What do I mean by this? Excess calcium can form painful kidney or gallstones or calcification of soft tissue as your bodies begin to stiffen up, or it can cause arteriosclerosis. I am not suggesting that excess calcium is the sole cause of these problems but it is certainly a component.
We are told that osteoporosis has reached epidemic proportions!
Read MoreThere is more to vitamin C than fighting off a cold!
Vitamin C
1) is a particularly important nutrient in our battle against aging and deterioration.
2) can help in the treatment of cancer
3) help high blood pressure
4) has anti-inflammatory properties
5) acts like a natural antihistamine
6) a wonderful antioxidant
7) is essential to the health of the skin (think of those wrinkles), hair, gums, bones, collagen, and ligaments.
8) main function is to aid in the growth and repair of the body’s tissue, including the maintenance of healthy blood vessels and red blood cells
When used in a preventative way or in the treatment of chronic conditions vitamin C would have to be taken in much higher doses than the 60mg recommended as the RDA.
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