Monday, November 1, 2010

Vitamins, Anyone?

Many nutritionists believe that most people should take multivitamins as supplements to diet.

A few years ago, California Institute of Technology, aided by Lockhead Aircraft Corporation, offered proof that most people can benefit from extra vitamins the year round.

They tested a group of healthy men whose ordinary diet was as good as average. Each man was given tablets five days a week for a whole year. Half the men were given multivitamin tablets, while the other half were given placebo (fake tablets of no value).

For the first few months there was no discernible difference between the two groups.

But during the following six months, the men who had been receiving multivitamin tablets forged ahead. They were absent less and scored higher in merit-rating.

The multivitamin tablets seemed to have the greatest effect on the workers' emotional well-being. They seemed happier, more alert.

And speaking of vitamins, do you know that daily doses of folic acid (a B vitamin) can save or prolong the lives of heart and artery disease patients? This was revealed by cardiologist Dr. Kurt A. Oster.

Folic acid counteracts the damage to heart and arteries caused by an enzyme in homogenized milk xanthine oxidase or XO. It neutralizes XO and restores a substance--plasmalogen--that repairs the damage and stops the fatty buildup.

Here's more...If you start taking vitamin and mineral supplements, you could also stop taking sleeping pills, or any other kind of psycho-active drugs such as sedatives or tranquilizers.

"These drugs have the potential to cause intellectual impairment in a person of any age," says Dr. Richard W. Besdine, a professor at Harvard Medical School. A scientific study on the tranquilizer Valium has proven him right: Valium "impairs" memory.

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