BACK TO THE PROBLEM WITH .... SUPPLEMENTS!!!???
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ON  A  RECENT  DOC  ZONE  CBC  PROGRAM,  WE  WERE  TAKEN  BACK  TO  THE  DEBATE  ON  VITAMIN/MINERAL  AND HERBAL SUPPLEMENTS.

THERE  WERE  SOME  SHOCKING  FACT  BROUGHT  OUT...... THERE IS NO STANDARD GOVERNMENT TESTING, OR KNOWING ALL THE INGREDIENTS ARE WHAT THEY SAY, AND AS PURE AS THEY SAY......A LOT OF "OILS" GO RANSID IN NOT TOO LONG A TIME.....SOME  DON'T EVEN CONTAIN ALL THE INGREDIENTS ON THE LABEL.....A SMALLER GROUP ARE PHONEY...... SOME, ACTUALLY  MANY, HAVE FANCY CLAIMS THEY PRINT ON THE LABEL, AND THERE IS NO SCIENCE TO BACK IT UP  -  THE  SCIENCE IS MISSING.

SOME  OF  THE  MOST  COSTLY  "CONCOCTIONS"  [YOU KNOW 30 OR 40 OR 50 DOLLARS A BOTTLES]  JUST CAN NOT BACK UP THEIR CLAIMS IN ANY CONCRETE  MANNER.

SOME IN THE "NATURAL HEALTH INDUSTRY" HAVE THESE HUGE, MASSIVE, AMOUNTS THEY RECOMMEND......AND IT MOST CERTAINLY HAS BEEN PROVED....TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING....YOU CAN BE IN DEEP TROUBLE.

TAKE VITAMIN E...... TAKE TOO MUCH AND YOU CAN HAVE SERIOUS PROBLEMS, SUCH IS ALSO TRUE OF VITAMIN A.

TAKING MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF VITAMIN C THEY SAID CAN GIVE PROBLEMS...MAYBE, I'VE NEVER TAKEN MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF VITAMIN C....I DO KNOW THAT WHAT YOUR BODY DOES NOT USE IT FLUSHES OUT [WHICH WAS NOT MENTIONED].

SO THE BATTLE GOES ON WITH "SCIENTISTS" AND "THE NATRO OF ALL THESE PRODUCTS IN LARGE HEALTH STORE."

IT CERTAINLY SEEMS THERE IS A "NOT SO GOOD" SIDE TO MANY OF THESE BOTTLES OF THIS AND THAT; BUT THEN YOU DO GET  SOME  WHO  ARE  TRULY  HELPED BUY SOME "NATURAL" PRODUCTS. THEY ARE LIVING WITNESSES THAT IN SOME CASES, IT HAS HELPED SOME, OTHERS MORE, AND FOR SOME A FULL AND COMPLETE CURE.

AH YES, WE ARE ALL DIFFERENT AND WHAT SOME PRODUCTS THAT ARE GOOD FOR THE GOOSE ARE NOT GOOD FOR THE GANDA.

THAT JUST ADDS TO THE SOMEWHAT CONFUSION OF THIS WHOLE ISSUE.

HOW  DO  I  LOOK  AT  IT  ALL?

I CAN ONLY STATE MY LIFE CASE FROM A TEEN TO MY NOW 74 BIRTHDAY COMING NEXT 9/11.  YOU WILL HAVE TO TRY AND SEE WHERE YOU FIT IN MY SCALE OF LIFE; FOR YOU THERE MAY BE MUCH LARGER AREAS YOU HAVE TO WORK ON THAT I DID NOT HAVE TO WORK ON. REALLY GOOD HEALTH IS NOT ABOUT TAKING THIS PILL OR THAT SUPPLEMENT OR THESE HERBS, OR A MIXTURE OF ALL OF THEM, AND THINKING YOUR PROBLEMS WILL NOW DISAPPEAR,  AND YOU'LL BE THE HEALTHIEST PERSON AROUND.....WHAT I'M SAYING IS: BEING FIT AND HEALTHY IS A MANY SIDED SUBJECT. I'LL GIVE YOU HOW IT ALL CAME TO ME AS ALREADY A VERY FIT TEEN [HARDLY EVER SICK; ON THE TRACK AND FIELD TEAM FROM ABOUT AGE 9 AND UP; SOCCER CAPTAIN IN HICH SCHOOL; CRICKET CAPTAIN LAST YEAR OF HIGH SCHOOL; CAMPION BREAST-STROKE SWIMMER IN HIGH SCHOOL; AND LEARNING JUDO THROUGH HIGH SCHOOL YEARS]

I GOT INTERESTED IN HEALTH IN A SERIOUS WAY IN MY MIDDLE TEENS.

AT THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF MY DAD I SENT FOR THE "HEALTH AND STRENGTH COURSE" BY THE FAMOUS  CHARLES  ATLAS. THIS WAS ABOUT 1956.

NOW BACK THEN MOST FOODS WERE STILL MAINLY ORGANIC.  THE MILK WE RECEIVED IN SCHOOL FREE,  THE CREAM CAME TO THE TOP, YOU SHOOK IT UP BEFORE DRINKING IT.

SADLY WHITE BREAD HAD BEEN INVENTED.  CHARLES ATLAS SAID STAY AWAY FROM ALL WHITE FLOUR PRODUCTS......AND I SURE DID. THAT WAS ONE OF THE BEST THINGS I COULD HAVE DONE STARTING AT AGE 14. AND 99 PERCENT OF THE TIME I'VE FOLLOWED THAT RULE EVER SINCE, TO THIS VERY DAY.

ATLAS TAUGHT DRINK LOTS OF MILK, YOU'LL HAVE A GREAT COMPLEXION,  I  DID  AND  I  DID [HAVE A GREAT COMPLEXION].

ATLAS WAS STRONG ON FRUITS, VEGETABLE, WHOLE-WHEAT FLOUR PRODUCTS; NUTS, BERRIES, BUTTER NOT MARGARINE,  PROTEIN FROM NUTS, EGGS, CHEESE, BEANS, MILK, AND ORGANIC MEATS LIKE BEEF.

ONE OF CHARLES ATLAS' PHRASES HE USED WAS "YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT"

FOR MOST PEOPLE BACK THEN IN THE 1950s WHO WERE HEALTHIER THAN THE AVERAGE PERSON TODAY,  EATING HEALTHY THE CHARLES ATLAS WAY, WAS A HUGE SPEP IN BEING HEALTHIER STILL. IT WAS FOR ME!

THE CHARLES ATLAS EXERCISES WERE FANTASTIC FOR STRENGTH AND ENDURANCE, AND JUST AGAIN PLAIN GOOD HEALTH PERIOD!  I STILL DO SOME OF THEN TO THIS DAY.

DURING MY TEENS AND INTO MY 20s I HAD A BODY METABOLISM  WHERE I COULD EAT THREE GOOD MEALS A DAY AND NOT GAIN AN OUNCE - MEALS OF VARIETY AS TAUGHT BY CHARLES ATLAS.

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