Every year 315 is the day of blood and tears for health care products. It seems that every health care product is a scam, and everyone is shouting! In fact, there are scammers and bad people in any industry, and there are also scum among the team of doctors who save people. It is precisely because of 315 that the industry can discipline itself and eliminate some junk businesses.
Can health products be taken? Can I buy it?
Let me tell you this: you can definitely eat legal and compliant health products. That is to say, if it has formal approval from the state and is approved by the Ministry of Health, 100 is no problem.
Just go to regular channels to buy genuine products. Don't be cheap, don't believe the salesperson's explanation, just look at the effects written on the package, such as assisting in lowering blood pressure and assisting in lowering blood sugar. Of course, more and more companies now use food qualifications to make products, and the words "tablet candy" are written on the packaging. In recent years, the health authorities have given the approval power to each provincial health department in order to simplify administration. , usually new resource foods.
Here is a reminder that compliance is useful. However, the elderly lack the ability to identify. For example, some salesmen will ask the elderly to chat, send things, or even travel in order to sell them. Remember, there is no free lunch, so don’t blindly believe in these. As long as you are poor, others will have opportunities.
When should you use health supplements? When to use medicine?
The function of health products is to provide health care, not to directly cure diseases. For example, when you have a headache, you can only take headache medicine. For example, when your blood pressure is high, you can only take antihypertensive medicine first to stabilize the condition. And health products are written not to replace medicine. So don’t use health products as medicine, because they don’t directly cure diseases. Most of the ingredients in medicines are antibiotics and hormones, which have immediate effects, but the role of medicines is only to control the condition. The ingredients of health care products are mostly nutrients. Their function is to activate cells, enhance the body's own immunity, and then improve the body's functions, thereby resisting diseases, repairing the body, and finally getting rid of the disease, which takes a long time. Therefore, health care products are equivalent to saving the country through curves!
For the use of health care products, it is recommended to supplement them in the later stage of hospital treatment, and in the early stage for those who are health-conscious. For example, one factor of high blood pressure is that blood vessels age and lose elasticity. If you are conscious of health care and supplement blood vessels with necessary nutrients in the early stage, they will not age so quickly. It is not necessary to supplement after a serious illness. By then it is already too late and the effect of taking health care products will be relatively poor.
Are health products effective?
Harvard University has been conducting a study since 1976. The content is: Is it good to take nutritional supplements? What are the results of more than 30 years of trials?
The experiment showed that: within 5 years, there was no significant difference among the people who took nutritional supplements; and in the 10th year, the disease rate of the people who insisted on taking supplements was 25% lower than that of those who did not; in the 10th year In 15 years, the prevalence rate has been reduced by 75%
This trial has been reported in top medical journals NEJM, Lancet, JAMA, and Archives of Internal Medicine! It caused a stir in the medical world! The test results have fully demonstrated that taking nutritional supplements is absolutely effective! But the effect is not immediate! The benefits of consistent use will be felt after several years or even decades!
Some people will definitely ask after reading this: Why can health products maintain our health? Why can’t simply paying attention to a balanced diet and increasing exercise achieve the same effect?
What is there that our daily diet can’t help us with?
1. The dangers of toxins
Scientists studying public health have discovered new evidence that toxins flooding our environment can pose a threat to the health of human cells. The air we breathe, the water we drink and even the food we eat contain cell-damaging substances. Any human tissue in contact with the outside world, such as skin, respiratory tract lining and digestive tract, is very fragile. One study found that 53% of baby food samples contained pesticide residues.
Although government departments and industrial groups are committed to improving environmental pollution, many harmful substances can be accumulated in fat tissue through the process of "bioaccumulation". Eating animal products greatly increases the risk of the body absorbing chemical toxins (such as dioxins). According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, breastfed infants absorb 20 to 60 times more dioxins per day than adults.
In addition to the current threats to health caused by environmental toxins, many nutritionists have pointed out that many of our foods are processed and preservatives are added during packaging, which greatly affects vitamins and Nutritional value of minerals. If human cells lack proper nutrients, it will be difficult to prevent and repair cell damage.
2. The harm of free radicals (free radicals)
Do you know what is the biggest cause of death for humans now? ------It is "disease"! The proportion of natural aging deaths has become smaller and smaller. There are different types of diseases that cause human death, but according to statistics, the top ten diseases are all related to "free radicals"! Scientists have confirmed that the causes of at least 100 kinds of diseases are related to free radicals. Every day, the cells in our body are attacked by free radicals at least 73,000 times. It is not an exaggeration to call free radicals the "source of all diseases".
Stress, sun exposure, air pollution, toxically contaminated water, and food that does not provide enough nutrients can all increase free radical attack.
In addition, the animal fats in our daily diet and foods with high peroxide values ??(especially processed foods with high fat content) can produce free radicals, which are harmful to healthy cells. cause further harm.
Researchers believe that antioxidant supplements can promote the body's normal defense function and fight against free radical damage.
A study of healthy human cells in a petri dish shows that if healthy cells receive proper nutrition and are not destroyed by toxins, they can survive independently forever. When the antioxidant mechanism is strengthened, the oxidative damage of cells caused by food is significantly improved after the introduction of antioxidants.
3. Lack of micronutrients in food
After World War II, chemical fertilizers were widely used in agriculture, causing a large amount of minerals to be lost from the soil, shortening the growth period of food, and reducing vitamin content. Storage, transportation and processing make nutrition worse.
The Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare once conducted a representative experiment. In 1948, a group of researchers used 100 grams of spinach from the Kanto region as raw material and extracted 150 mg of vitamin C. In 2000, another group of researchers took the same amount of spinach from the same area and extracted only 13 mg of vitamin C. This information shows that due to the current over-exploitation and use of soil and the widespread use of chemical fertilizers, our soil is infertile, and the crops we grow are far less nutrient-rich than we imagined.
Although the fruits and vegetables we eat seem to be getting bigger and bigger, their contents are getting smaller and smaller. Farmers only focus on whether they can sell them at a good price. They often pick the fruits before they are ripe, and then steam them with ethylene to make them big and beautiful. When we continue to consume insufficient micronutrients, modern people will gradually suffer from inexplicable ailments, including obesity, fatigue, poor resistance, and degenerative diseases. Deficiencies in nutrients lead to a decrease in the quality of our diet.
When you are not sure which vitamins you need to supplement, taking multivitamins is also a good choice.
4. It is difficult to have a balanced diet
Modern people are under great work pressure and have busy lives, so they often neglect a balanced and healthy diet in their daily lives.
Take vitamin E as an example. It is recommended that everyone take in 400IU (international units) of vitamin E every day to maintain optimal health, but Chinese people generally do not take enough.
Here are some examples of foods rich in vitamin E:
The food type provides 400IU of vitamin E, 0.9 pounds of sunflower seeds, 4 pounds of wheat germ, 1.7 pounds of almonds, 473 ml of safflower oil, and 25 pounds of spinach
So, let me ask you: Do you eat 25 pounds of spinach or 1.7 pounds of almonds a day? It can be seen from this that it is almost impossible for us to consume enough nutrients every day. Therefore, using high-quality nutritional supplements is the most direct and effective way.
Precautions for taking health care products
The more health care products you eat, the better
The completeness and balance of nutritional products include many important vitamins If the dosage of , minerals and other nutrients is not coordinated, all or part of the body's proper absorption and nutritional value will be wiped out.
Because many elements coordinate with each other. Uncoordinated dosage may hinder the body's absorption of other nutrients, or even lead to deficiencies of other elements - for example, vitamin C can help the body absorb iron, but excess iron will affect the absorption of calcium, magnesium and zinc in the small intestine. function. So a truly balanced nutrition plan requires detailed research to understand each element's relationship to each other and the body's ability to absorb and apply it.
Feeling better after eating? Don't rush yet!
High-quality nutritional products can accelerate the body's natural self-healing ability and eliminate toxins from the body. During the entire nursing process, the body may have some reactions, such as previous symptoms may reappear. In fact, , this is not a "side effect", but an "improvement reaction" (also called a treatment reaction), or what Chinese medicine calls "the dizziness reaction". There is a very detailed article on the Internet called "Ruide Zhishan Tianxuan Reaction", if you are interested You can search it.
In order to eliminate toxins, the body may excrete accumulated toxins through its innate detoxification system, such as the skin, urine and feces, resulting in diarrhea, skin rashes and other phenomena. In fact, whenever toxic substances harm the body, the body's self-healing function will take effect.
For example: Many people accidentally eat unclean food when going out, such as vegetables with excessive pesticides, meat or fish with excessive bacteria, and their bodies will react immediately, possibly with abdominal pain. and laxatives and even vomiting to remove toxins. Once the toxins are eliminated, the body will feel very comfortable. This is the "improvement reaction". Another example is that a child is infected with a virus and suddenly develops a rash on his skin and feels itchy. However, after a few days, the skin rash and itching completely disappear. This is because the immune system works and eliminates toxins as a "recovery reaction."
Generally speaking, the "improvement reaction" is not a side effect, because the human menstrual cycle is about 90 days. If you can take care of your body through natural therapies such as detoxification, nutritional supplements, soothing emotions and adjusting the spine, By enduring the short-term "improvement reaction", your physical condition will be significantly improved. After the improvement reaction disappears, the body's resistance is strengthened, and the immunity is also strengthened. Most of the diseases that have occurred will be cured without medication!
Of course, for people with persistent physical discomfort or severe symptoms, it is still recommended to consult a doctor!
Conclusion:
The medical community has complete knowledge of the effects of taking nutritional supplements. The difference in whether you insist on taking it or not may take a long process to be reflected. Health supplements can help us eliminate toxins, fight against free radical damage, supplement trace elements missing in food, and improve dietary balance to provide sufficient nutrients that are difficult to obtain. However, in the end, I still want to remind everyone: the most important thing for maintaining a healthy body is always a balanced diet and good living habits! This is something that no amount of health care products can replace!