The first facts you should know about vitamins are that vitamins are not all created the same. Some are made of all natural ingredients and a lot are made of very toxic ingredients. Yes, it is true… and a very very scary fact.
I hope you are sitting right now because this is a fact that is probably going to shock you. You’ve heard of the all dangerous “trans fats”, right? Well, that is exactly what some vitamins have in them! It’s absolutely crazy.
A lot of companies use “Partially hydrogenated soybean oil” (a “trans fat”) in vitamins because it is cheap… provides a nice appealing texture… and it increases the shelf life of the vitamins.
Wow! They are now taking trans fats out of McDonalds foods and instead, they’re putting them in our vitamins! That makes a lot of sense, doesn’t it?
Trans fats have been linked to so many problems. They have a bad affect on the thyroid… make you tired… and slow down your metabolism. I used to wonder years ago why I would almost fall asleep every time after eating a Burger King salad. I thought salads were good for you. I could be wrong, but I am guessing they put some kind of bad fat in that, too!
Anyway, a fact you probably already know, trans fats are most known for their link to heart problems. They have been shown to raise your bad cholesterol and lower your good cholesterol… which obviously, is not the best thing for your heart.
Make sure you look at the ingredients in the vitamins. If it says it is made of “partially hydrogenated” anything, drop the bottle and run! Make sure ALL of the ingredients in the vitamins are natural.
By: Hope Pope
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Green Tea Health Benefits –learn What This Amazing Product Can Do for You
January 20th, 2010By the time you finish reading this, I hope that you, like me, will become captivated by this magic ingredient! It has been used for over 4000 years in Chinese medicine, and green tea health benefits have been proven in many areas.
Green tea is made by lightly steaming fresh tea leaves, while black tea is made from the same leaves but these are dried and roasted and therefore lose a lot of their medicinal power.
One of the major green tea benefits is that it is a powerful antioxidant, helping to reduce the damage done by free radicals.
Studies have concluded that it can help to prevent many forms of cancer, in part by inhibiting cell replication, a main feature of cancer.
These are truly amazing green tea health benefits. How many other natural products do we know that can actually prevent cancer?
Cholesterol lowering is another feature. Regular intake of green tea, or preferably, a green tea extract combined with other nutrients, has been shown to lower your LDL or bad cholesterol while maintaining your HDL or good cholesterol. This helps prevent hardening of the arteries and in doing so significantly reduces your risk of a heart attack or stroke.
More green tea benefits are helping to reduce the effects of aging and enhance your natural skin tone. Now this is one benefit we would all like to see! The list goes on and on.
The good news for all you dieters out there is that green tea benefits your weight loss too, by the fact that it contains EGCG, a very powerful antioxidant, over 100 times more powerful than vitamin C no less!
This functions by helping to naturally boost your metabolism, helping you to burn off more fat, without moving a muscle. Quite a desirable property to have I’m sure you’d agree.
Now despite these wonderful green tea health benefits, as I mentioned earlier, they can be even more effective when combined with other nutrients, in extract form, such as a supplement. Green tea in extract form is decaffeinated, so you get all of the benefits without the worry.
When the right ingredients are combined together, they have a more powerful effect than if used alone, and this is called synergy. This is a very important fact, not to be overlooked, if you want to get the most green tea benefits.
So in closing, I hope you enjoyed this short article on green tea benefits and are motivated to find out more about this and other health giving ingredients, and if you would like to learn more about the products which I personally take, why not visit my website.
By: Ric Hawkins
