Newsletter-September2010

Newsletter September2010

Welcome to our regular newsletter designed to keep you up to date on issues about health, fitness and dance. Our focus is more for the mature adult but the information is generally suited to all ages. Our approach is;

fat loss not weight loss;
healthy diet not dieting;
supplement to support;
dancing puts years on your life.

NB: Click on Events for classes starting September 2010

I DON´T BELEIVE IT!

How often do you hear and read "all you need is to eat a well balanced diet!"

Certainly, healthy nutrition helps create a healthy body but more and more evidence is unfolding that in todays Western world it is virtually impossible to get a "well balanced diet".

Here's food for thought. Two peaches back in 1951 would have provided the current RDA requirements of vitamin A for adult women.

Today, a woman would have to consume almost 53 peaches to meet her daily requirements of vitamin A. Clearly, our bodies need the help of vitamin supplements.

Read more at the:

NUTRITIONAL EDUCATION CENTRE.

TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF

In this newsletter we are saying that it is never too late to take care of yourself, and put years on your life and life in your years.

When we ask people if they take supplements, of those that do, they take those that they have read or heard about. Sometimes when someone told them they were good. A bit hit and miss! But you need to take care!

For example, zinc cannot function without vitamin B6, nor can some enzymes be made without it.

Here is another example, as important as vitamins are, vitamins cannot function and cannot be assimilated without the aid of minerals.

If you are not sure you are taking the best supplements for you, and we are all different, check with a nutritionist or contact us.

In our next newsletter we will tell you about the critical importance of your Ph balance - not knowing about this means you could be wasting all of the supplements you take and the money it takes to buy them!

AGEING SDRAWKCAB

It is said that people grow from childhood to old age in their lifetime. This growing process can be referred to as ageing. Many theories and facts have been associated with ageing. However, the actual reason remains unknown. Many theories have been combined, many rejected; ageing still remains a mystery. A recent theory suggests that ageing is caused by oxidation reaction causing free radicals. With the advent of the importance of antioxidants which interrupt free radical activity, the role of free radicals in ageing and age related diseases are being widely explored.

Vitamins and minerals help to protect us from free radical damage. However,

you can’t make vitamins or minerals so you have to get them through diet and supplements. To be healthy you only need small amounts of each one but you need to get them regularly - ideally, every day. Among other things, vitamins help drive biological processes, they help absorb other essential nutrients such as minerals, they protect us from free radical damage, are involved in hormone production and help release energy from food.

As we grow older, our body becomes less efficient at extracting nutrients from our food and absorbing them into the blood. It becomes more important to top up our reserves as time goes on.

Fresh food, destined for the supermarket and stored in chilled containers, can travel hundreds or even thousands of miles and take several days to get to and from distribution centres.

Processing removes most of the nutrients. White flour, white rice and refined white sugar contain no vitamins at all and only 10% of the minerals they originally had.

Many fruits and vegetables contain a lot less of some nutrients now compared to 40 years ago. For instance broccoli and pineapples now have less than half the calcium; the vitamin C in cauliflower is 40% less and 30% less in sweet peppers; watercress has 80% less iron, and some oranges have no vitamin C at all. Supplements can’t compensate for poor food choices, and they don’t replace missed meals.

Supplements are a simple way to compensate for the falling standards of our food and the modern lifestyle.

See our page on Healthy Nutririon.

Articles on this newsletter are for information purposes and should not be solely used as diagnostic or treatment tools. Always consult with a medical advisor if you are in any doubt.

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