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Supplements May Be Doing More Harm

May 30th, 2008 by admin

A popular question that comes up among my clients especially athletes is about nutrition. They always want to know what they should eat and what supplements I recommend. This is when I cringe, when I hear them talk about supplements. In a nutshell supplements just make expensive urine. A good diet is all you need, and I don’t care what other studies say. Humans have lived long before supplements came out, and they were living quite fine. The absence of synthetic supplements from your diet won’t kill you; in a matter of fat it may promote your health more.

Most of the time synthetic supplements aren’t absorbed well in the body, and the rest is excreted. I’m a firm believer that it’s impossible to get a substitute for a good healthy diet through a bottle. Skip supplements all you need to do is to eat a diet that is rich in nutrients, phytonutrients, micronutrinets, enzymes, and omega 3 fatty acids and you should be just fine. Don’t forget to drink adequate amounts of pure water and get your adequate amount of sunlight (vitamin D).

By the way, the government doesn’t do a good job in regulating supplements and it could be literally anything within a capsule. Some supplement companies don’t even list their ingredients on their bottle. Seems a little skeptical to me, I would stick to natural foods.

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Doug Purcell
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Bitter Sweet

April 23rd, 2008 by admin

Imagine a sweetener with zero calories, and no harmful effects. If that was the case than everyone could consume all the artificial sugar they want without gaining weight right? Than that would mean that everyone would be slim right? Unfortunately this is not the case. Sometimes you have to listen to the old saying which goes like this. “If something sounds too good to be true it usually is.” Researchers from the Cesare Maltoni Cancer Research Center in Italy has linked aspartame the main ingredient in Equal and NutraSweet to numerous of health disorders in laboratory rats such as lymphomas, tumors, and leukemia.

The Study

In the study rats were compared by feeding them different dosages of aspartame all the way until their death. They started feeding the rats aspartame starting when they were eight weeks old. The study concluded that the more aspartame a rat was feed, the more malignant cancers they died with.

Reflections

I have never been an advocate of artificial sweeteners since I had a bad experience with one. Several years ago I purchased a bag of candy that contained sucralose, the artificial sweetener that is used in Splenda which is 600 times sweeter than table sugar. It was on sale so I decided to purchase some. After I ate a couple my stomach was acting funny, and I thought it was coming from something else. I continue eating, and the pain kept growing stronger. I was confused; I thought that the last place it was coming from was from the “sugar free” candy. I mean after all the FDA approved of it and there were countless of clinical trials that said that it was safe for human consumption, even safe for babies. My curiosity was bugging me, and I decided to do research about it myself. What I discovered were some horrifying secrets about all artificial sweeteners including Equal and Splenda. The FDA approved countless of harmful substances in the past such as ephedrine for one. Also, a lot of clinical trials can be rigged, and the effects of artificial sweeteners can catch up to an individual down the road. A lot of people never report the effects they feel from artificial sweeteners because they think that it may be coming from a different source. Stop ignoring, and stop drinking diet sodas, throw it all out of your house, it’s not safe for you or your family.

*If you have a story to share about your use of artificial sweeteners and would like to make people informed about it you may e-mail them to info@cardiacgym.com. Also, feel free to pay us a visit and read tons of free information at www.cardiacgym.com.*

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Doug Purcell
Fitness Consultant
Alternative Medicine Expert
Natural Bodybuilder
http://www.cardiacgym.com owner

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