Month: September 2014

Throughout your life, Calcium supplements will prove to be very important. With the most important times of your life, such as childhood, breast feeding, or pregnancy, getting the right amounts of calcium is very important.

For children, calcium helps with the growth of teeth and bones, and it prevents blood clots. With adults, calcium helps to prevent osteoporosis.

How to Take Calcium Supplements

If you are looking to take, or currently taking calcium supplements, you should take them either before or after your meal, with a large glass of liquid, preferably water.

 

If you are using chewable calcium supplements, then you should make sure that you chew the pills thoroughly before you swallow. If you have trouble chewing them, you should always let them dissolve in a glass of water or juice then slowly drink once it is dissolved.

Keep in mind, you shouldn’t take other medications immediately following calcium supplements, as they can easily interfere with other types of medications that you may be taking.

Why to take Calcium supplements

Calcium Supplements

Although calcium supplements are ideal for promoting bone and teeth growth and health, you should always make sure that you can take them before you make the purchase.

Those who suffer from lung disease, kidney stones, stomach problems, or diarrhea should always consult with a doctor first to make sure that calcium supplements won’t make things worse.

If you happen to be pregnant, you should let your doctor know that you are interested in or taking calcium supplements, as that have been known to get into breast milk.

Normally, anyone can take calcium supplements, although using them in high doses may cause different and adverse reactions. If you take calcium supplements in large doses, you may experience constipation, vomiting, nausea, a loss of appetite, a dry mouth, and a loss of appetite.

If you start to have any of the above problems, you should immediately contact your doctor.

When you contact your doctor, you should let him know if you are taking any other medications, and any histories of illness or diseases your family may have. Although anyone can take calcium supplements, there are rare cases in which they may cause you side effects.

Side effects are very rare, although they happen and may prevent certain individuals from taking these supplements.

Where to Find Calcium supplements

If you’ve been having problems with your bones or just looking to keep your bones healthy, calcium supplements are what you need. You can find them online, or through local nutrition stores such as GNC.

They don’t cost a lot of money, yet they will give you the peace of mind in knowing that your bones will remain strong and healthy. You can include them in your daily diet as well – although you should check with your doctor first to make sure that they won’t cause you any problems.

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I really loe this infographic as it tells us a lot about the best reasons to eat a lot of fruit. I love fruit and although there are more benefits to eating a lot more vegetables fruit can never be taken out of your diet and should be emphasized.

Do you eat a lot of fruit yourself? These fruits and their benefits should sure persuade you to eat more of them

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Thanks to the considerable awareness about weight loss generated by experts and media alike, almost all of those so-called ‘bad foods’ now have seemingly ‘good alternatives’ so that you could enjoy your favorite foods without getting fatter.

So we have diet drinks to replace fizzy drinks and diet soda to replace the original sweet soda. But how healthy are these diet alternatives? In this article we shall take a closer look at that.

The Problem with Diet Soda

Take diet soda for example. It may contain fewer calories than the original soda, but they are also loaded with lots of caffeine which makes equally harmful.

In case you don’t know already, caffeine is a diuretic that makes us dehydrated by flushing out all the water from our body.

The more caffeine we consume, the more our body would become dehydrated. But how would you know if your body is dehydrated or not? Here are some quick symptoms to check out.

1. Fatigue: Are you always tired? Do you feel unable to concentrate on any one thing? Do you tend to feel sleepy even after sleeping for a long while? Do you feel that you lack the energy required to perform your daily chores? Believe it or not, they are all symptoms of dehydration.

2. Headaches: We all know how annoying headaches could be. But do you know why they happen? Very often, when our brain is deprived of even a little amount of water, we suffer from headaches. Keep in mind that almost two-thirds of our brain is composed of nothing but water.

3. Difficulty in passing bowels: When water gets depleted from your body, your stool gets harder and harder, consequently making it difficult for you to pass the bowels. You would notice that almost always a patient suffering from constipation is advised to drink lots of water and fruits; while water keeps the stool soft, fiber pushes the bowels so hard that you should have no difficulty passing them at all.

4. Dark-colored urine: Do you urinate less than usual? Is the color of your urine dark? This is yet another pointer to the fact that your body is dehydrated and it needs water supply. When your body’s water level is reduced to an abnormally low level, the kidneys find it difficult to flush out the toxins and other waste products properly from our body and consequently our urine becomes abnormally dark.

5. Bad breath: If you have tried high and low and are still unable to get rid of your bad breath, consider increasing your water intake. Bad breath is caused by bacteria, and water helps flush out these bacteria from your mouth, thereby ridding you of bad breath.

As you can see, diet sodas are not a good choice because they could make your kids’ body dry as hell. If you really want to control your kids” soda intake, persuade them to drink water more often.

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