By Kay Leaman, HealthyDay HealthyLife
As I write this, summer is starting to sneak its way in. A new morning to start fresh, make a change, do something different and up-level my health journey so I can do more, enjoy more and encourage others to do the same.
Here are some headlines:
Wall Street Journal: Your Healthspan Is as Important as Your Lifespan–and It’s Declining The U.S. Diet is Deadly.
Health News: Six in 10 Americans Have Unhealthy Pro-Inflammatory Diets Less Than 3 Percent of Americans Have a Healthy Lifestyle
New York Times: Three-Quarters of U.S. Americans Are Now Overweight or Obese Comment and Health: Why is the U.S. still in such poor health, despite its wealth?
Why Is American Food So Unhealthy?
Health and Medicine: Only 12 percent of American adults are metabolically healthy, Carolina study finds.
Many sports supplements have no trace of their key ingredients
HealthWatch: U.S. spends the most but ranks last in health compared with other high-income nations, new report says
Forbes: 89% Of Sports Supplements Tested Did Not Accurately Label Their Ingredients 40% of Sports Supplements Don’t Contain Ingredients On The Label, U.S. Study Finds
CNN: Nearly 800 dietary supplements contained unapproved drug ingredients, study finds
CBS News: Herbal supplements filled with fake ingredients, investigators find
Dr. Mark Hyman M.D. (Doctors Pharmacy Podcast) states: “Since the nutrient density of our diet has declined over time, we all need supplements. Unless you’re hunting and gathering and foraging all your own wild food, unless you’re drinking pure clean water, you have no exposure to environmental toxins, you have no chronic stress, you go to bed with the sun and wake up with the sun, you sleep nine hours a night — if that’s you, you don’t need supplements; but everybody else — we need supplements.”
When choosing a vitamin, do we know if they have industry leading certifications such as USP, GMP, NSF TGA, ISO, HACCP, etc. Are they manufactured in a FDA registered facility? What rigorous trials have they gone through using 3rd party research?
When we look at all the information above and think about what questions to ask regarding our food supply as well, it becomes overwhelming. However, there are steps we can take to impact our own health in a positive way. Being proactive in understanding food labels is a good start. We can decrease the number of inner isle products we normally purchase. Many canned vegetables contain sugar and other preservatives. An example of this is canned tomatoes. Pomi’s ingredients are tomatoes. Check the other options and you’ll notice a trend. I have found more natural (less ingredients) in the international isle. I avoid any item containing sugar or coloring. Why they need to add yellow coloring to pickles is beyond me!
Supplements are a whole other issue. Because they are not regulated by the FDA, there are many both in stores and online that are not what they claim to be or have (They can be added to the sport supplement quotes above.). Several years ago, I attended a training on taking a product to an online platform. The short version; create a label, find a manufacturing company that can produce the product and attach your label to it. The product they were focused on—vitamins. The bottom line of the entire training: the money, not quality, purity, efficacy or safety.
If you are interested in a couple of short videos regarding where my husband and I redirected our supplement spending, send me an email with ‘I care’ in the subject line. I am also available to discuss labels or other questions you might have via a phone call. Please use the same subject line in your email.
It’s about learning and sharing what we learn with others that can impact the health of our communities. Here’s to Health.
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